I was soaring ever higher

Pre-college has started and it's a good time but really hard on my ass. Unfortunately I have horrible timing and am going on the pill, which is making me an evil monster, I swear. I haven't lost my cool on anyone but in my head I'm kind of hating the world. The combination of that and the ridiculous stress from working has not been a good one. I have workshop today for the first time and it's not as horrible as I anticipated. There's nothing wrong with Product Design itself, it's just that I don't know the first thing about it and somehow have to TA 16 kids twice a week. I thought I'd be completely in over my head but surprisingly it's not too bad. Now the only real issue is plain boredom since I don't actually have any real interest in the subject. I remember feeling the same way when I was in Sculpture. I felt like I could appreciate other's interest in it and admire it as an art form but I felt no actual connection with it. I wish I was teaching at least one Illustration class. When I found out I was TAing Graphic Design I didn't think I'd miss it all that much but I really do. Actual class time is not so difficult, despite the 7 hours of it, it's Studio time that is insane. My kids are good and most of them know what they're doing so they tend to finish assignments pretty quickly, which makes my job crazy when I've given them three assignments and they have nothing to do for the last hour of a three hour long studio session. Anyway, I'm glad I'm doing the program because I've gotten to know some people from MICA that I probably otherwise would never have met. However, I do horribly miss DRT. I always need to remind myself to make sure I get a chunk of theater time in my year, otherwise I tend to overload on art and it makes me not want to do it. Hopefully I'll have enough when I jump in on the second DRT session. I just hope that after all of these things are done I don't feel like I worked all summer long and didn't actually have a vacation.

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I'm really going to try and force this to be a habit so here's the start-

Vector art from last semester. Original painting is 40" x 80". I hope I have the time this summer to experiment with this type of medium more. It's extremely addictive and with Illustrator's perfectly clean lines it's also very satisfying.



In addition, I also worked on the logo for our summer theater camp. I'll post that when it's finished though.

Then while searching around for vector painting inspirations I stumbled upon a few new blogs and communities.

Oh Joy! - I haven't quite caught the grasp of the theme but as far as I can tell it's design, interior design, fashion, and general pretty things.

Desire to Inspire - Introduced to me by little_abeielle, beautiful apartment design and inspiration.

100 Layer Cake - I already sort of posted this link earlier but I can't stress enough how much I love this blog. It's not just wedding inspiration, I've gotten a lot of color inspiration for design from it, including the color scheme for my new layout.

foto_decadent - Really lovely community. I'm the kind of artist that needs reference photos so communities like this are gold. Mostly fashion images but really beautiful shoots.

laceandflora - I found this LJ community through another blog and it also has really nice photos. I especially love it for its fashion shoots as well.

New layout happening. It still needs some tweaking but I've got the main gist down. Originial code by grrliz. I recently got kicked out of iheartcinema for what I assume to be lack of contribution. My bad. Hopefully if I request acceptance again they'll give me a second chance. Overall I need to jump into gear again with the ol' LJ. I need to keep reminding myself to update artwork on here. I never think to do that and it's stupid.

Anyway. So of course if I'm getting back into LJ I need to post some icons.


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