just slow, i guess

things have slowed down significantly since the last time i wrote. art has been pretty boring for the past few days--just cleaning up the studios and it's really sad to see the walls all blank and everything. we're getting a new assignment, and it's basically just a "whatever you want" project...which we've all been working on something of our own anyway. but yeah it's going to be so weird next year when there's only 9 of us all in one class...i am like kind of nervous. whatever, i guess. hopefully, it will be pretty intense which is what i like! :) so i've been having to direct myself a lot more, which i'm enjoying. i have been going to the library a LOT and i love it. i'm revisiting some of my old fashion drawings and just reproducing other people's work (especially that of some really traditional illustrators like anne-marie barden!) obviously, JDM is always on my mind though. trying to work in broader strokes and just getting a good sense of color movement, nothing more. i'm working on a small painting of my dog from photograph it's coming along pretty well. i'm planning on getting a few more small wooden sheets from merion art tomorrow just for fun (after i drive lauren to her piano lesson, obviously...i love wednesdays). here is a particularly savory find!

leesa leva (above)