A Hockey Hiatus

On Thursday my hockey team left campus to travel to Baltimore and Philadelphia for our final games of the regular season.  This week, we travel to Norfolk, Virginia to play in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Conference Tournament, for a chance to qualify for the NCAA tournament.  We're leaving on Tuesday evening, so I am missing a whoooole bunch of classes.  Not that I have any problem with that.  I just hope my professors are understanding...

So that's why I won't have any new updates for awhile.  Right now in...
Ceramics: I've just cut out the spiral in my 14-inch piece.  Hopefully it doesn't completely dry out over the weekend.
Drawing: we're learning "perspective" and "vanishing points."  I am putting those in "quotations" because it's all a bunch of made-up stuff that forces me to use a ruler and measurements in a drawing of a cube.
Painting: we turned in our reproductions on Wednesday.  I was done with mine last week, and I already know I got an A on the project.  Apparently the next painting is a still-life (shocker).
3D Design: I'm so behind in this class because it's only once a week and I missed last week and will miss this week.  We're still supposed to be working on the same project, the one with foam board and no right angles.  Still trying to figure this one out.

Once hockey is over, I'll be able to really catch up on everything and hopefully do well on the projects.

But hopefully we'll be missing next week too for NCAA's!  It's a long shot, but cross your fingers!

Drawing...Again

Well, this is how my second drawing turned out:

I ended up not really spending much time on it, and I couldn't see the shadows and shading from the picture I took.  So, whatever, it was only a one day thing.

Our next project, that we're going to get an actual grade on (ahh!) is another still life.  The thing with still lifes is...they're boring.  I mean, literally, how much more boring can you get than those geometric shapes lined up on a table?  Come on.  But, on the other hand, it's not like I could do anything more exciting at this point.  I wanted to get to drawing people or faces or something this semester, since the "people" I draw have been the same since 6th grade when I copied doodles out of "Amelia's Notebook."

But, anyway, we had a choice between two different little scenes that my professor set up.  I wasn't really up to the task of trying to draw a huge vase full of fake flowers and leaves and stems and petals, so I chose this one.

This is the basic view, but I am doing a vertical drawing so I just narrowed it down to this:

(yup, that's a mobile upload)

The drawing's due on Thursday, but I will be on my way to Virginia with my field hockey team by then (to take on the #1 team in the nation, by the way...).  So I have to turn my drawing in early.  My only problem so far has been that I haven't been able to get into the studio during the same time of day as my class.  The lighting is natural and coming in through the window, so if I go in at a different time all the shadows will be off.

Since we don't have practice tomorrow, and my painting class ends at 11 AM, I'll be able to work on it tomorrow.  But again, the lighting will be off a little bit.  I'll just have to work around it, maybe focus on just getting the shapes of everything down and then work on the shadows in class on Tuesday.

Here's what I've got so far (my view is a little different from the picture.  And yes, I am defending myself here):

My professor said I jumped a little too soon into going really dark with the background and to try to pull it back a little.

But hey, I'm fearless, right?

A Little Off Topic

I realize this post is really off the subject of art, but you know what, it's my blog and I'll do what I want.

I play field hockey for Hofstra, and today we beat Siena 10-0.  But more importantly, our first conference game is coming up in a week down in Norfolk, Virginia against Old Dominion University.  ODU has had a really terrific season so far, and they've been ranked #2 in the country.  Tonight, they played the #1 UNC Tarheels, and WON.  They won.  Holy shit, they won.

If everything goes as planned, by the end of the weekend they will have moved up into the top spot in the rankings.  That is, if they beat Duke on Sunday.

Just throwing that out there.  That in one week, we will be playing the #1 team in the country.