Thesis Paintings_Day 16 - 48.5 Hours

          A day of drowziness and stomach pain...~_~"
Marcy took a took at all of my paintings at start of our class, and told me to focus on 3 paintings that needs more work. But sadly, the long figure painting is the one I am most sick and tired of = I don't want to deal with it any more. I've spent too much quality time with it... :: sighs ::...

The class was mostly spent on the back pose painting, and the rest on the new portrait painting - for fun.

          There will be a lot of over time invested before the show starts, I've arranged Fridays and Saturdays = Total of 12Hours, besides the 6hours of our classes during the week. I will also be dealing with the Thesis Paper :/...hhmm...

Right now the only paintings I will want in the show is the ear painting, and the two from last semester.
The hand, feet, and smaller portrait are all mostly done - but I'm not satisfied with them - nor do I adore them like my babies. :: discontent. ::.. I'm going to try and resolve this back pose painting, as it's my new love of interest.

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          Lastly, Luisa informed me that Josh and Edyta has worked on the show cards, and it has been purchased at 1800Postcards (online) - We'll be splitting the amount on it later.

I was never contacted for any of the meetings, nor informed when I saw them - So I am displeased and feel left out. But I still want it to be a success, so I want to help and get the ball rolling. We still need a press release and the P.R. aspects of our social politics done in the coming weeks. Hhhhmmm......

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          A sample order of business cards came from Moo.com and it was nice, simple and likable.
However, I've been doing research and price comparisons; outside of experimenting layouts....

Lots to do... so little time... - Yet some part of me is feeling reckless and feel like pulling myself off of meds completely @_@" :: sighs ..::... I don't know...

Thesis Paintings_Day 15 - 45.5 Hours

I felt kind of depressed and discouraged since Wednesday night.
I was in a foul emotional state since Friday, and  I was still feeling that way when I was woken up this morning.
So I almost didn't want to participate in my life's activities today.
Li came from CT this morning too...
so she bribed me out with bubble tea after some rational thoughts being debated in the back of my head ...
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         First thing I did when I got to school about 5pm(till 10pm..)..was going back on the cropped ear painting; I went back to my old painting style and combined it with my current techniques. I felt kind of estrange for me to be mixing colors with a brush again, and with squeezed paint out from a tube... lol ...But I'm proud to say..."I pulled it off.." hehehe....

          Then I went back to do the shadows on the foot painting...

And Lastly, I pulled out the painting that I took a print of the back pose painting...
I had always like the self portrait that I did of just my facial shadows that was cast from dramatic lighting... so I thought I'd do one of those again...but regular lighting... 

I don't think it came out as nice at all >_<"

The only thing I that I liked about it was the fact that I was drawing with the brush how I did back in figurative drawing class... with my arm stiff and a little sore lol..it made me nostalgic.

Thesis Paintings_Day 14 - 40.5 Hours

          I pitched the idea to Marcy last night and more or less so got rejected about 3 times.... but last time before leaving the classroom was to talk about it next week...~_~" :: sighs ..::... And Butch seems really disappointed when he saw the new changes to the back pose painting...He said I made it looked the same as everything else I've got so far.... (that was kinda upsetting too..but this was when class was over already... )

In short, I felt really down working last night after Marcy rejected my proposal... so I just worked full on in my despair for the whole night. (with new bottles of colors that I bought in on Tuesday night.)



The only piece of good news I have is that Marcy said there don't seem to be a time limit on how many extra hours I can use the Model for this Thesis Show :) :: content..:: but I've asked her to confirm just to be 100% certain. I want to have time to finish these newer pieces that I just started, and be ready for May 10th ...by 05/6th....when they hang our stuff... :: deep sighs...::...

I don't want to have any regrets or bad memories of my paintings during my Senior Thesis. I want to be able to like my own paintings for this show, since I don't like'em most of the time >_<"

Day 13 - 37.5 Hours

          Today was the first time I went in on Saturday for this to paint, and it's all because I finally got approval to have model on Wednesday. I got there at about 3pm but there was a class going on in there. The train was shit-tastic today (the #1,2, & 3) - Vannya got held up abit too. But the EOP drawing class kept me from starting my painting session till 4pm. I started the session by going back to the back pose painting.... and added more paper to it.... stained it.... and sprinkled paper on the lines I retraced with paint; but I took a print of the painting before doing this, on another older painting of mostly stained and egg shell collaged surface.

Then I went back into the 2piece figure painting...

And then the small cropped pieces... and also started a new one of VanNya's Right Ear

I felt pretty accomplished today, as I got a lot done and got to experiment a little as well. ^.^  But I ran out of medium pretty quickly in this longer painting session....I almost thought I wasn't going to be able to paint this whole 6hr session.I pitched an idea to Vannya, which is for us to come in and cram out a full day session and just skipping Mon. & Wed. nights.... but I would need Marcy's approval...hhmmmm

          Got home about 10:40pm and started to refill my medium bottles, besides pouring some more paint into my new containers so I can bring them to school next week. ^.^ It took kind of long, since I was using a Baskin-Robin's pink spoon to get the paint to transfer without it spilling all over the place. I only managed to get 3 different paint colors done, and filled 5bottles of mediums from the gallon buckets that I bought from DickBlick.

Painting - Day 12 - 30th Hours

          As planned, I put up the 2piece painting up against the wall before painting anything tonight - so Marcy and I can get a feel of how it's going to look in the Senior Thesis Show. We were playing around with the arrangement of the smaller paintings around it. She suggested for me to paint more cropped body parts to tie in the other 3 small paintings. . . . hhmmm.....

After realizing the proportions were completely off and especially the lower body... I went back into this painting again and made corrections with the black gesso. (This pose was a little harsh on Vannya's body after a long period of time posing for me :/..hhhmm... I'm glad it's almost over so she can be more at ease sitting for me. )

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          Then I moved onto the 2nd stage of the second large figurative painting, I incorporated the finely shredded papers that was found in the hall way a couple of weeks ago. The paper helped blotting out the area of the figure, so I don't waste paint covering the light, mid-tones, and dark areas - while confusing myself at the same time. @_@"  However, the scale of this painting was still giving a tough time, but I tried to make it work and it seemed to be slightly easier than the last painting session ^.^

Painting - Day 11 - 27th Hours

     Last night I bought in two of the house paint colors that I bought from Homedepot over the winter break. This greenish/blueish color that's just sooo sexy ! I'm definitely going to buy more later on :). The bottles from the container store also worked out pretty well. I got 3 bottle sizes that will work with the current bottle tips that I already own. ^.^ :: thrilled !! ::

After working on the large figure painting that's almost done - Marcy spoke with me, and we agreed it was better for me to start another painting. It seems that I work better with multie paintings at a time, and it's also better for the technique I've been using with the bottles. The painting tends to form puddles when I'm working on only one painting, without any other canvases to switch over to allow some drying time in between.

So these images shows the beginning of this new painting....
I started painting with a gift card I had on my person to blot out the shape of the figure first; This is how I usually would draw during a drawing class, which I couldn't do in my other painting classes.
Then I started to paint with my right hand because the paint had engulfed it.
But as always, for definition - I went back to my lines and using bottles to get the ease of application. I kept on feeling that the drawing part was off. This painting is bigger than the last few paintings, and I can't quite work standing over it because of the scale - and the fact that I can't stretch my self that apart ~_~" (Other words, inconsistent viewing perspective....)

Hopefully, I can finish it in time for the Thesis Show. Marcy got our chairperson to agree to let me get a model on Saturdays, so I'll be going into the school to paint some more starting this weekend ^.^

Butch came in last night (my first year painting Professor), he was very excited to see my new paintings. It made me very happy, because his energy was just through the roof lol.

Lastly, I went back to Jetro today, the restaurant depot store to buy more bottles (ketchup bottles). The one in College point, Flushing had a larger variety in bottle size from 12oz-32oz and with wide mouth opening caps ^.^ I bought the 16oz one today, and if all works out well - it will also fit an old bottle cap with a tip. :: fingers crossed :: hehe

Painting - Day 10 - Absent

I stayed home last Wednesday, and I just got Endoscopy done today at 11am. My left wrist hurts right now, because they stuck the needle through there to knock me out >_<", and something tells me it's going to bruise and cause more OW  ...bbllaahh  ... x_x 

     Today, I started pouring the 1st gallon size paint bucket into the wide mouth bottle I got from the Container Store. It poured alright, just some slight spills. I just bought a batch of bottles ($53.03 @_@") from them to test out the size and their cap screws - to see if it's compatibility with some of the other caps I already have; so I can draw fine lines and then ranging to thicker line ^.^


The spill paint was recycled by staining my smaller canvases, as if I was dying them in a bucket ^.^ hehe
Because the pigment is acrylic base, it means I never have to waste my paint as long as I got water. :)

          It's Spring break for me since Wednesday (03/24th) - till April 4th. I've got a lot to get done before the break is over. Marcy wants us to be able to tell her the scale of all our paintings for the Senior Thesis Art Show by the time we come back. :: deep exhales...::.... I can't believe the end is this close within my grasp! I still have ideas, and things I want to explore; but I'm afraid I won't have time to complete everything before the hanging date - which is May 05th and 6th. The show will be on May10th, and opening reception will be at 6:30PM. I don't know how our two large groups are going to coordinate everything this year. @_@"  - We need press release, show cards, and site. (Which some people suggested Lauren and Me - because I took the course before them and saw how last year's got coordinated.) Then we need our own individual site, art cards and or business cards done before the show is up; which I intend on completing within my break, along with catching up with school work and spending some extra time to paint in school? :: sighs..:: SO MUCH TO DO!!!

I can't wait for May25th !! My Graduation Ceremony !! The first one my Grandparents gets to see ^.^  :: very happy ::