Sylpha

[Goddessartist]

Pencil drawing. For some reason, I really love this one.

[niyad]

1. Very dream-like, misty.

[Goddessartist]

2. Very much

like my dreams

I have the most amazing dream life.

[MLAA]

3. You should be on the cover of every Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel!

Your work is beautiful.

[Goddessartist]

4. Oh my!

Lol I was in that scene for many years but declined to work for art directors. I just do my own thing.

Thank you so much!

[flakey_foont]

5. Very nice

Like it a lot

Thanks for sharing

[Goddessartist]

6. Thank you!

[flakey_foont]

7. Of course

ever been to Glastonbury in UK? Drawing sorta reminds me of that magickal place

[Goddessartist]

8. No, I wish!

I'd love to visit there. Selkies, all the magickal beings are there - faeries, all the wee folk.

[Ms. Toad]

9. Very nice!

I love the seal peeking around, and bubbles drifting up!

[Goddessartist]

10. Thanks so much!

How's your Fresco going?

[Ms. Toad]

11. I haven't done anything since the penguin.

One of my professors posted the supplies list, which was surprisingly cryptic, so I've spent all my at time figuring out the difference between Willow charcoal and vine charcoal. They are either the same, or not. Willow is either darker or greyer than vine, and either softer or harder than vine. My professor wants me to have both (unless he is in the group who uses the terms interchangeably), so I need to buy either 4 kinds of this flavor charcoal (both soft and medium of one or two kinds of charcoal).

And why are Char-Kole pastels (it is it Char-Cole) only black, unless I read the reviews, which include pictures of very colorful street art drawn using the black pastels.

I raided my daughter's art supplies, and I think she had some Willow (based on the rings, which seen to be present in Willow, but not vine), as well as a few other things on my list. I hope I got the right stuff. But this is one of the most frustrating parts of studying art. My background is the law, and before that math and physics - all of which are very precise. I've had to accept that there are questions on the quizzes that I'll just miss because I misinterpret the question (is happened with three professors, did far. The fourth didn't give any quizzes or exams). Good thing the quizzes make up a miniscule part of my grade . . .

Then I spent the rest of my time looking at examples of what I will be expected to do for the semester. Yikes!

[Goddessartist]

12. Yikes is right!

I absolutely hate charcoal, sorry. I had a teacher in a class in Gualala about 13 years ago (an older sister paid for it to make me go with her) and it was in charcoal. I told him I hated charcoal, so he said I could do whatever I wanted lol. I only went because she wanted me to. I was living in SF at the time.

Anyway, I can't help you with charcoal lol. Yuck. You can do it though! I'm always here to help! (I've taught lots of classes personally and in groups/conventions and online).

My college loves were art, art history, philosophy - took several of each.

[Ms. Toad]

13. No getting out of this one.

There's a photographer who already has a name for himself as a photographer, who is a first year student at my school, after heavy rectuitment. He's complained about the foundation classes (since he doesn't like art). His father, a well-known photographer, has complained. He's still hanging out in the foundation classes. And he still has to take 60-ish hours of studio and history classes for the degree (in addition to hte 30-ish photography classes).

I'm not really complaining. I took every art class I could in middle school, then had to drop out because the high school schedule couldn't accommodate my broad interests (Spanish, math/science, choir, band, and art). So something had to go. The middle school classes were drawing - so I have a bit of experience there, but nothing in charcoal. This class uses a wide range of drawing media, albeit more carcoal than anything else from the supply list. I don't know that I'll like charcoal - my daughter is willing to give me all of her charcoal - since she favors conte crayons. I may not like it either - but I'm using the classes as an opportunity to push myself to learn a broad range of techniques/media before I settle into what I want to do.

The two major projects both seem to require creating a montage drawing (although I can do comic book style so the montage is in separate panels). The yikes was mostly because of the quality of drawing of each element combined with merging them into a single cohesive picture. Although I'm fascinated by a few drawings in this style I've seen, it isn't anything I'm drawn to create. Since my 3D classmates were in all the foundation classes at once, I saw the single montage style pictures they created - but I didn't realize how much of the focus of the class was on this style (rather than it being one project out of several).

[Goddessartist]

14. Those Foundation

classes sound actually quite wonderful, and will teach the students quite a bit.

The montages sound quite fascinating!

I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work!

[Ms. Toad]

15. The 3D one was very well designed.

There were three sections, with a couple of projects in each section. The first was to turn a 1D media (wire) into a 3D sculputure. The second was to turn in a 2D media (paper, fabric, pieces of sheet metal, cardboard) into a 3D sculpture. The final was to work directly with a 3D media (clay).

Here's my little wire buddy: