Painting 1...

    I've taken many "painting 1" classes or differently named equivalents over the course of my education, so I was a bit wary of having to take another. I was told they wanted to teach me how to paint well and correctly so that I could move forward knowing how to paint correctly.

    It turns out that I won't be wasting any time, because though I may have painted before, I've never used oil paints before, nor have I had a room full of students who want to learn how to learn just as much as I do. Not everybody is in the same place with their art, and It's humbling to be put into a room of people who a lot are just as good if not better than myself at what we're doing.

    I'm going to try and focus as much as I can on actually observing what's in front of me and taking my time. I've always had a problem with not knowing how to proceed, or feeling like I'm done long before I ever reach a "presentable" point.

    

    So we'll see how that goes...

-Cody

Media introduced today: Oils

Difficulty level: fairly easy if you're an artist

Difficulty level today with a new medium: what the freak am I doing.

So we used oils today. I have never used them in my entire life. Some emotions I went through today while learning oils:

Confidence

Unsure

Sadness

Hopeless

Frustrated

Rage

Sobbing (internally)

I realized a lot of these kids in our class are pretty good, it bothers me though that they are 18 years old. And here I am. With an Associates in Visual Arts , and their work is just as good, or better than mine. Although there's always that one kid that isn't that great, and you're like " alright! I'm not the worst!" It gives me hope 

Side note: I played a mean game of ping pong today between classes. Plus my English teacher is super rad and she's like " you're artists you don't wanna be here, I get that. We can do whatever we want" 

Here is my oil painting it's the same subject as Cody's , but in a different location. It looks pretty lame now that I see it in a photograph.

-Allison

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