"The doctors and the nurses they adore me so and it's really quite alarming cause I'm such an awful fuuuuck!~"
Hello everybody, sorry for my absence in the blogging world I hope to get back up and running very shortly stress and school has been tougher than I thought it would be this year. Sometimes I wish I could catch "senioritis" but even after choosing to go to SUNY New Paltz and finishing my PiG paper I still care a whole lot about my work. Sometimes I care too much, but I like learning and I really like understanding.
Since the last time I blogged I have completed a zine as an art director! Although projects like these usually get me wound up and my mind is scattered all over the place I stayed relatively calm throughout it (except for the times where I told Austin to shut the hell up). Was I truly calm or just stoic? Not sure, but this time I let myself step back a bit even though I was still very involved in what was going on. I contributed art to both zines but mostly The Light Edition of the zine.
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| I think this and the Polar Bear are my favorite contributions, really. |
Note to Future Sarah: if you think that doing two zines at once is a simple and easy idea-- stop. don't. If you try to do more than two zines at once then I will come from the past and hit you with a brick.
your fiend, Past Sarah
After that I help a little bit with the new STAC website, figuring out things that are important/vital information to things that should be shown subtle. When writing down questions I remembered when I first auditioned for STAC back in the eighth grade (my how time has gone by). I remember reading and learning anything I could on the website because until a day or two before auditions I didn't know anything about STAC. I am the oldest child in my family and none of my older family friends mentioned it so I had no clue. I also thought of all the things my parents wanted to know about the program. I went into auditions thinking I wouldn't even get in and just went for it and here I am four years later!
I have not worked much on the website since but it looks awesome! I used to know very very basic HTML coding but I forgot a lot of it over time.
I also gave Julian Ashley and briefly Danielle a lesson on painting with oil colors. I never really saw myself as much of a teacher but I tried my best. For me, I feel like teaching fine arts is quite a challenge. I'm so used to just doing it that I find it difficult to explain it well enough that you can understand how to paint. I'm thinking "oh well you just paint it, duh" but that wouldn't really teach them anything. Although I was given a bag of colored oil paints I decided that colors are kind of hard on it's own and I wanted them to get the idea of painting with oils before worrying too much about that so I went with the handy dandy Payne's Grey. It is what I started with when I began to oil paint my freshman year. They did very well with it and seemed to like it. I hope my 'teaching' helped them!
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| 'This painting of mine was all done in Payne's Grey |
