Present Joys

• Drew portraits with Boryana and talked about basic frame.
• Didn’t have any normal classes on tuesday or wednesday!
• Got sophomore-reviewed by Matthew Mohr (who was great) and Steve Gabor (who wasn’t as great). Passed.
• Wore my traffic-cone orange trousers and bonded with Mr. Aschenbrand, who I am growing to love.
• Studied art history with Dana and Dorian in the Crane Café on wednesday. Prepared less than usual.
• Took a perfunctory “liberal arts progress assessment”, which was a bureaucratic waste of time.
• Enjoyed delightful sunny weather on wednesday and painfully rainy weather on thursday.
• Watched clips from the 1961 A Raisin in the Sun film from YouTube instead of doing any actual classwork, causing me to question why I even showed up.
• Took my second art history test, which was extremely fun.
• Learned a fun fact about Mr. Burleigh, who grows cooler with every successive week.
• Turned in my American lit midterm, which is seven pages long and full of things my teacher probably won’t agree with.

pokeleen:

colleenclarkart:

2012

This is a t-shirt design that the most wonderful person on earth Nigel Ewan hired me to design for the bible study group, Young Twigs, run by his mother. I had soo much fun making this.

Sorry to reblog from my own art blog but I wanted to advertise again for my awesome friend Nigel (nigel.tumblr.com, what a cool username) and for this cool girls’ youth group, Young Twigs. Dat is all.

RECIPROCAL LOVE. Colleen is the best ever and I think the world of her. I’m having this design printed onto shirts as we speak and I’m super thrilled to have the finished products in my hands. Having talented friends is so so satisfying.

The truth about stand-up comedy.

Leonard Bernstein.

• Had a crit in figure drawing! Turned in my first homework piece, which is not terribly good and which I will probably end up re-making.
• Skipped friendship lunch to see one of CCAD’s liberal arts teachers talk very seriously about Harpo Marx. It was more interesting than I’d expected.
• Had presentation day in team class! My team didn’t go first for the first time all year, but it was a great time nonetheless. Literally everyone did a great job.
• During our presentation: performed an elaborate skit in which John played a character called Joff. We made M-Tabs laugh until she cried.
• Took a group photo after our presentations, which is destined to become one of my most prized e-possessions.
• Had a history of fashion midterm! Roughly one-half of the test was accidentally not included in our printed materials, so the teacher had to write all the questions on the chalkboard. I think I did well on it but I really have no clue.
• After the midterm: did a mini-presentation on 1890s fashion. I covered men’s hats.
• Drew a cartoony t-shirt design wherein a family flays a person using knives. It was supposed to be a “scary Halloween design for teens”, so I’d say I did a pretty dang good job.
• Besides the t-shirt design, my wednesday was pretty boring. The upside: I didn’t bicker with anybody all day.
• Did not say anything critical about people’s unflattering Warby Parker frames.
• Had lots and lots of conversations about sophomore review during which no consensuses were ever reached.
• Was late to Burleigh’s knit-n-crit because I was in line for hot water at the Crane Café. But it was okay because half the class was also down there buying goitered-looking muffins.
• Got to go into Mr. Burleigh’s office and get all my old work from last semester. I had to sign a make a list of everything I took so he can get it back.
• Went home and assembled all the things I’m going to take to sophomore review. (spoiler: it is like 50 things.)