This weekend I’ll be spending the majority of two days in the studio and then I will take advantage of the fact that we don’t have school Monday to sketch out my next two paintings and write the rough draft of my creative essay.
I’m thinking a painting a day this weekend and then a day of reflection and writing will get me out of my funk. I haven’t painted in a week and I would like to do something creative so much, I just can’t seem to get myself to do it.
The feedback I got today on the format for my academic statement was super helpful. I look forward to implementing the changes while they are fresh in my mind. Changes I wanted, to use less of the same word over and over again, to cut out the part about coming to evergreen and make it more about my decision to become a teacher, and relate the examples from my classes to that future teaching. No lists.
Critique was helpful in that several people were interested in seeing what it will finally look like, wondering the color scheme and size of the final pieces, and wondering the context. Since I’m mostly researching the process of getting lost in painting a lot of my research will be personal and looking at other artistic practices as well as looking into psychology of disorientation, imagination, and disassociation. How that works into the images I picked is a process to explain. I picked the images because they are microscopic images, and that they have structure and show another world we cant normally see but is there. Also one of them is a nod to oil and watercolor painting, and still has that structure present. They are in conversation with each other and my background with art and science classes leads me to pick something that I’m familiar with and understand. I don’t have much background in psychology and that’s how I am branching out and understanding process is important for me. I want to be a art teacher in the future at some point and teaching art isn’t just about how to paint, or sculpt, or weld, it’s about everything, its the whole process from start to finish. It’s the emotion, the distancing, the pain staking process of a project start to finish and knowing the meaning behind what you made. So this is important for me to know.
I’m going to spend Tuesday trying out one the first of my second biggest paintings for the set and seeing if I want to glaze that piece over a acrylic or oil background. I’ll also be finishing up with the sanding and gessoing of my final and largest painting Tuesday. With critique on Wednesday and the drawing studio after I probably won’t be back to working and painting until Saturday of that next week.