Update on life…

Major/Minor Declaration: I just finished filling out the forms for both. And have an appt with my major adviser tomorrow. And am in the process of making an appt with the Econ dept head for next Monday. This is really exciting!

Ring: I GET MY AGNES RING IN LESS THAN A MONTH. :] That’s my excited face. I’m really a lot more excited about it than you can probably tell from this posting.

Bridge to Business: There’s an interest meeting this week, which I shall be attending. I finished my interest statement over the break with the help of my loving mother, and requested my transcript today. YAY! I’m so very very close to being able to turn my application in, it’s not even funny.

Anything else: Oh, right. It’s a new semester. I have new classes. So I’m taking: French 102, Astronomy 150 (Science, Religion, and the End of the World), Poli Sci 201 (Approaches to Politics), Intro to Ballet, and English 219 (After Shakespeare).

Alright. I think that’s about it. I’m going to go grab some dinner and then hit the books. :]

Wow.

So it’s definately been a while. And I’ve sort of completely forgotten about this blog. I am SO sorry.

I can’t believe I’m basically half way though my sophomore year of college. GAHHH.
I haven’t declared yet, but I’m going POLI SCI, with a minor in Organizational Management. :]

This summer, Agnes is kicking off this program called Bridge to Business. It’s a three week program with the GA Tech School of Business. There’s 30 spots (I believe) and I hope I get one. I really want to know if I want to go to business school, and I feel like this is a fantastic opportunity for me to find out if this is something i actually want for myself.

Plus there’s a $1000 stipend for everyone. And free housing in Avery (Agnes’ apartments). And MARTA vouchers. And I’m really excited. In case you couldn’t tell.

M

Changing Blog Topics…

Hey all. So since this is my school/professional blog, and my art class is officially over, I’ve decided to change my current topic of my blog to be about my summer internship.
My internship is at the Sacramento Mayor’s office, and is gonna be really cool.

That is all.
M

Portrait progress…

Hey all.

So I’ve been making a lot of headway [HAHAHAHAH. Headway. It’s a self portrait. Sorry. Sometimes I can’t help myself] on my self portrait. And I have pictures! So Destiny and I decided that the lesser finished picture (see below) is creepy. But only because there’s an eye missing. But after I sat back down at the next class, and stayed extra long, I’m a lot closer to being done. I think now what I’m going to focus on is my eyebrows and eyelids. I think I’m fully finished with my lips. After all that, I’m just gonna go back through with some finishing touches. And then I”m DONE!

Pictures:

Later.

M

More Self Portrait

So I’ve been working a lot more on my self portrait, and let me just say this… LIPS ARE HARD. Thanks. I spent pretty much the entire class period yesterday working just on my lips, and mostly my top lip, not even the bottom one yet. And I must admit… I’m afraid for my eyes. Not like looking at them or anything, but drawing them. If lips are this frightening, I can only imagine.

Picture! It’s definitely a work in progress.

M

Changes.

Hey. So I changed the name of my blog because I’m going to be using it strictly for school things now. But I set up a new blog for all my personal stuffes. Here’s the link now… http://meganalexisxoxo.tumblr.com

I hope you guys enjoy it!

M

On Campus Event: Maura Reilly & Gallery Installation…

Sorry this is a lot late, haha (well the part about Maura Reilly). I went to the curator talk with Maura Reilly, and she was really interesting. She’s done a lot in her career and since I”ve been trying to determine what I want to do, she got me thinking. I always thought it would be really cool to run a gallery or some such thing, but even though she loves it, I honestly don’t know if I could do it. When we were putting up the student show today in the gallery, I didn’t mind physically installing the show, but I felt like the creative differences were more of a hinderance and less of a help. But now the gallery looks FANTASTIC. :]

Self-Portrait, Part 1. (DUN DUN DUN)

I figured that since this was a longer project, I’d do little mini-blog entries, instead of a few larger ones.

Yesterday (Sunday…) I headed over to Dana to go and “tone” my paper for this project. Meaning, I rubbed charcoal dust in circles until I covered the entire page. From here, we will be erasing the light on our face to make it super dramatic & photo-realistic (according to Prof. Ruby). So all in all, Sunday was drama and anxiety attack free. That’s the way I like to live my life. :]

That’s really all for now. Stay tuned. It could get dramatic really fast.

Megan’s MARTA Project Review

No, silly. It’s not another post about my MARTA project. But this one is Megan Williams (http://mmwilliams104.wordpress.com/).
She went on a trip with two other people from our Art 160 class, and figured out her theme from there. She did her project on the color yellow that she found on and around MARTA. I liked her idea for the project because people usually think of MARTA as bland and colorless, and Megan proved that thought to be not true. Also, I found it very fitting since both she and I are members of the class of 2013, and yellow is our class color. I would say that her project was successful, it conveyed the ideas and emotions associated with the color yellow (including happiness, joy, and excitement). She did that by not only taking pictures of yellow objects, but using yellow to decorate elements within her book.

Tiny Animals…

Hey all. So the latest project for Art 160 was  making a “tiny animal.” but not drawing. Oh no! It’s to be a 3-D object. So after getting some basic “rules” for the project (i.e. size issues) we were set loose to figure out what animal we  would do and how on earth we would construct it.
So the very first animal I thought of was a sparrow. It was a definite possibility. I also thought about a cat, turtle, baby hippo, and some others. But of all those my favorite idea was the bird. But I wasn’t quite sure if I really wanted to do a fat little sparrow (watch out for the drawings below) or if I wanted to do some sort of bird that looked more like it was in flight. I chose the latter. I also sort of strayed away from my idea of a sparrow, and focused more on a dove… I wanted to give it a lean, sort of human figure. I thought if I made it completely white it would also be more believieable.
So I looked to the materials table, and the back counter. And I saw these copper pipe pieces, that if I put together somehow, and covered with clay, it would give me the basic body shape I wanted. So that’s what I did. After attempt #1 with the pipe pieces and some hot glue, I figured out a way to NOT put them together. I put the hot glue on the wrong side of the wrong piece of pipe… So I got another piece. :]
I used hot glue to put them together, and then fill in the little spaces between them, since they weren’t exactly flush. After that I covered the whole thing with a clay like substance. And let me tell you… that was slightly more frustrating than it sounds. Clay doesn’t like to stick to smooth things, but after it started to dry a little bit, it started to obey. And I made a little beak for the little guy.
And then I focused on the wings. I made the basic frame out of wire, with some little support wires (which actually also let me weave some heavy-weight paper to give it form & strength) and then I covered the whole thing with cotton. And repeated for the other wing. I had to figure out how to put the wings together. So I wired them together, and covered that wire with string (Mostly so I wouldn’t hurt my fingers. Or the dove.) I made the tail the same way.
While working on it on Sunday afternoon, I dragged a few of my friends with me, to get their opinions and background noise. And they helped me figure out how to get the wings and tails attached. Smart people they are. They told me to hot glue it. Plain and simple. And they told me to add some eyes so he didn’t look so creepy. Thanks guys.

I’ll post some pictures later.

That’s all.
–M

pictures!