June 1, 2023
This month I'm assisting an undergrad Drawing Intensive class twice weekly.
Yesterday they started gesture drawing so I had to join. After my first attempt, the professor reminded me not to elongate the figure, so I spent the rest of the class suppressing the good old FIT days. I haven't practiced gesturing for a bit so I had a blast and now I'm hungry for it again.
The students took turns modeling for 5, 3 and 2 minute poses. It was fun but we stopped after every sketch to talk about it. I wish we had gone straight ahead for at least 4 drawings. I had fun drawing different body types and the individual characteristics of each student within the same drawing session. It kept me "on my toes", as we usually draw the same person for the duration of one class.
Here are a few drawings from the session, in chronological order. These are nice and large so my arm definitely felt sore after such workout. It was a great feeling! : )
Charcoal pencil on Newsprint. 24"x 32"
Home is where The Boo is.
June 20- I just moved into a little room near my school. I'll be heading home for the weekend and will be here during the week until the fall semester begins. I'm currently assisting and taking a few extra classes, so I'm still driving a lot. I will probably spend more time here once the semester begins. Let's hope it goes well! Boo is very curious about this place. Lets hope he does well with the change!
My rented room near UCF, on the day of move-in.
June 15- Got to do some much enjoyed drawing practice while assisting the "Drawing Intensive" class this week. We did something pretty cool yesterday, which is a "cage drawing". I've never done one of those and it was a lot of fun: easels are placed around the model and cord strung between them at different angles. The model poses and you draw the strings as well, concentrating on preciseness. The cage drawing was three 45 minute sessions. The professor wanted exactness in measurements and angles.
Today we got to play with changing the setting as we wished, so I added the suggestion of a tree and a rock to my figures.
The figures with the tree are 45 mins. each.
July 15- While assisting 2 undergraduate classes for 32 hours p/w, taking 3 academic graduate classes, training to be one a docent at a local museum and working part time this summer, my friend's wise words have become my motto:
The only way out is through.
I've got 6 assignments, 5 docent training sessions and two final research papers to complete in the next 3 weeks. I'm looking forward to August 7th, when it all ends. I will then have about 2 weeks of rest before
Reminder to self:
Everything is temporary. Keep going. It's not supposed to be easy.
Aug.4- One down. Two to go. This one is a P/F, voluntary class to add to my transcript. Hopefully it will make a difference.
12 weeks that were well spent! The other two classes remaining are graded, and part of a "College Teaching & Leadership" graduate certificate that I'm also pursuing.
Yay! I'm so excited about this!
August 27- The first week of the fall semester has come and gone, so I better update this album with the second part of my summer events. I use my FB records to document my life at UCF, so please bear with me.
During July and August, I offered to assist two, six week classes: 2D Design Foundations with Proffesor Shannon Lindsey and Drawing Foundations with Proffesor Theo Lotz. They graciously allowed me to shadow them and interact with their students, who were entry level. Here are some of the works produced in these classes as well as other related events. Photos taken and shared with professors and students permissions.
I also began my training as a docent at the Rollins Museum of Art, started to prepared my studio space for my second year, taught summer (online) Foundational classes at Elite Animation Academy and moved to a little bedroom next to UCF, where I now live 99.9% of the time. But that's stuff for another album. : )
I am incredibly grateful to be here and can't imagine being anywhere else right now.
