What a Day

So, today I turned in my 72 portraits. I don't have a final picture of it yet, but I will by the end of this week. I was all excited for a crit day, and then I remembered I love getting my work critiqued, but I'm not very good at talking about others' work. For every piece I tried to think of something to say, falling back on what I know about art not the execution. And I hate to say it, but some of the pieces turned in today were at about the level of incoming freshmen back at my high school. I feel so bad saying that, but I guess I really did turn into a snobby fartist...

Unfortunate things: We had to haul a ton of stuff to the class and only ended up using the newsprint pad and india ink. Very sucky. Then, we spent 45 minutes doing an assignment I'd already done back in 10th grade, and back then we spent about 15-20 minutes on those portraits! So I sat there for about half the time, hoping the instructor would come over and say something about the fact that I wasn't doing anything... but she never did. And for homework we have to do 2 self portraits in the same style as the class thing, but we're expected to spend a total of 6 hours on it! That's way too long for such a ridiculously easy assignment, so I'm setting myself up to take longer: I'm going to sew together pieces of canvas paper and do the portraits in oil paint. Hopefully that'll take close to 6 hours...

Yeah, she lost some teacher-points today...

I just needed to rant about that, even if this wasn't the most appropriate place to do so. I shall now go tell Shelley, as hopefully she'll feel my pain.

Also, as a side note, I feel like I should mention that this blog and the attached one [Hypnotized, my artist name blog] use words from a Millimeters Mercury song "Ace Aviatrix". Their website and the song itself.