existing pretty well entirely on coffee

I know you eagerly await these updates, so even though I have no time, I will make the time for an update on the progression of the great ugly still life.

Let's first take another look at the original ugly still life. One of my classmates said it made her think of an old man's garage and I thought, "yup, just another reason to dislike it."

Then the painting I made of it. Don't care much for the painting; I especially struggled with the background. It may never make it home with me even after I get it back.

Then the collages. The first one was about colour matching. In the crit today I said this first one has a name and it is: The Black Hole that Swallowed Time. I am not entirely sure she was amused with me. But seriously, I probably spent somewhere around 10 - 15 hours on it. And my place has shreds of paper everywhere.

On the other hand I do actually kind of like it. As much as I ever like collage. This photo is not doing it justice at all. But taking that artist I linked to as a model actually did make it easier for me.

Then the second collage could be anything we wanted but the idea was to get the positive and negative space right. It's not very successful at that, and again I'm not terribly fond of it. I find it very flat and design-y. I liked it better after I got the red ribbon in though. I guess red ribbons improve everything.

Funnily enough everyone seemed to like the second collage better - not sure why, except maybe it was very different than a lot of the random magazine stuff people did. I think I'm just too close to it and I still have the vision in my head that didn't really work out on paper.

I did learn a lot from the colour one though. I admit it.

I'll talk about the sculpture project another day - when I've managed to start it. I still have a paper to write before I can concentrate on it. I am so over this term. Like you wouldn't believe. I'm averaging about 5 hours of sleep a night and existing pretty well entirely on coffee.

And I don't even know when I will possibly be able to think about Christmas. I thought last Christmas was stressful; this is shaping up to be worse.