I see the light!

Almost there. Survived two final project presentations today. Still need to study for two big tests tomorrow, come up with stuff for a sophomore review presentation on Wednesday, and then one last test on Thursday. And then I will be SO ready to not think about school for at least a month!

I definitely need the break. I'm having trouble keeping up on my celebrity gossip. And snacks.

Super Secret Spy Picture #1

The cool thing about having my computer in front of the window is that I can take pictures of people in the parking lot across the street without them knowing about it. I saw these folks stopped on the sidewalk chatting and the dog looked really cute, so I grabbed my camera and took a quick photo. Little did they know that their picture would be posted on the internet later today. Muwahahahaha!

I wonder what they were talking about? Maybe I should write a story about it. I'm sure whatever I made up would be more interesting. Like, I think they might have been talking about using penguin dung as fertilizer for their magical green bean patch, but in reality they were probably talking about the weather or some great new Gore-Tex jacket they saw on sale at REI.

Craftsmanship & Modern Art

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

Tom Stoppard, from Artist Descending a Staircase. British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )

busy like a bee

No, I haven't formed my own company (yet). Came up with a quick logo for my final Studio project that I'm putting together today. Also, above that is a version of one of the final concept floor plans. Nose to the grindstone today. I need to draw an interior perspective, but I'm probably going to put that off until tomorrow. Why? Because I can!

sacred space

Peaceful morning: all we did for our last day of class in "Space Illustration" was go to the Chapel of St. Ignatius on the Seattle University campus and draw. We'd been there a couple months ago so it was interesting to revisit the space and see differences in how we chose to depict it. The building itself is really cool, very simple but with lots of textures and great materials/craftsmanship. (The architect was Steven Holl.)

Roaming the City

Our Interior Studio class today involved of a field trip where we roamed downtown for several hours. One of the buildings we looked at was the 5th & Madison condo tower (shown above) which is next to the Central Library. It was... interesting. Not quite as luxe as I was expecting based on the location, marketing materials, price, and such.

Later I roamed with Mia (classmate) to the South Lake Union Discovery Center (aka Vulcan's real estate sales office) which was much more impressive and we also stopped at the Seva furniture showroom and tried out at least 80% of the chairs there. It was fun.

Then I ended up hanging with Snotty for a few hours and we split a bottle of wine and had a nice chat.

Did I get homework done today? Not yet. But was it a good day? YES!

Buried under piles of tracing paper.

Shockingly enough, I actually drew the picture above instead of swiping it from Google Images. I've spent the evening in Photoshop cleaning up a pile of scanned drawings from my Studio to put in the archive of my final project. I think I had to scan at least thirty separate pieces of tracing paper this afternoon. Ugh. (The one above is a sample elevation I was seeing how different colors showed up on.) Luckily, I snagged some time off from work on Saturday so I can devote extra time to my various finals that will all be due starting on Monday.

Don't think I'm not keeping tabs on what else is going on in the world though! I hear Hillary won Pennsylvania. I have mixed feelings about that. I'm not really for or against her (or Obama). Neither is perfect, both have good and bad qualities.

Also, I hear that Mariah Carey's album did well. Too bad. She doesn't strike me as much of an artist. More like an "enterfection!" (That would be an entertainment confection.) She seemed like she had some actual talent at one point, although now I look at her and wish she would just grow up already. Quit trying to be twenty-one again girl! You aren't fooling anybody! Her ho-wear and strange shenanigans are not to be trusted.

Back to Photoshop for me.