Lots has happened

I have moved in. I have started class. And atm we are setting up a wordpress blog

Nothing up yet...

Here is the link: http://reneelatragna.wordpress.com/

Hello old friend.

It's been a while since i last posted. There are 2 days left of school and all projects are coming to an end. Blockheads have since died out from my last posting. In place of them i started a traditional self portrait painting of myself, althought pace has slowed due to a bad reference. I am also working with another classmate in a collaborative mural, Our small contribution to the school before we leave. Tomorrow and Monday will be spent taking home work and overall removing myself from the school. Except for a single mural of course.

I'm not very upset about it.

I feel I am ready to move on,

Alfred here i come.

It's official

Yesterday at around 11am I gave Alfred my deposit and got my photo ID. So its a done deal!

=)

It's 6:40 am

I've been sitting on the couch for the past half hour trying to focus on some television in order to pass the time. I sprung out of bed as soon as i heard daddy's voice to get up. I'M EXCITED.

Today is blue and gold day at Alfred! Today is the day I get to see the campus, get registered, and maybe even request my roommate (Ari or Courtney.)

After today (if i like the school that is) I'll be changing my blog description!

whattt!!???

Last week Mr. Stephens had gotten me the most beautiful canvas i have ever seen, finally after looking at it for the past 5 or so days i started working on it. And i learned something, I have no freakin' idea how to use it! The texture is funny, it takes the paint completely different from the stuff I'm use to. I'm miss my cardboard at the moment.

This is definatly a challenge i didnt expect.

Also, this morning after looking over all my work with Mr. Stephens i found out that i am indeed finished with my concentration! But Mr. Stephens and I have a different vision to how these are all going to be presented. I defiantly think i am much further behind than he does.

Anyway... here's my latest concentration piece. Lucky number 7 (or 13)

Good day

This morning i was welcomed to my grade sheet from Mr. Stephens. This is what it said...

Also, i have gotten back into the painting game. This is the beginning of concentration piece #7.

It happend

The worst possible thing that could happen did.

I'm stuck.

With 3 pieces to go and i have no idea where to go with them.

*sigh* =/

Concentration count

8/12
Days until the AP exam: 42



Next weeks goal: FINISH ANOTHER

Last block in illistration class

I planned out my next 3 blockheads. All of them are equally sick ideas.

The only problem i have now is deciding which one I'm going to start first!!!

6/12

Ho yeah!

5/12

Update on my concentration. As of right now i have 5 pieces completed (one of those being a triptych.) My 6th one should be finished either by tomorrow or Wednesday and ill be moving on to a charcoal self portrait piece. When i first started my blockhead concentration i was pretty worried I'd get stuck or bored. But now that I'm getting into this it is really coming easy.

And i must say i am taking this in a completely different direction then i thought i would. Other than the one pictured below a lot of them are turning out to be 3d forms consisting of various facial features (on blocks of course.) Very modern art.

One very important element i took out of those pieces is the suit. Something i am very fond of, and something ill be adding back into my next piece. I am really excited to get started!!

My latest drawing (only one I have photographed right now)

Concentration!

Looking at the work I've done so far on my concentration i am really starting to feel worried about it. For the first time i laid out everything i have done for so far and I am thinking that it may not be fluent enough. The idea for them are all the same but the style is not.

BACK TO SCHOOL

This all may be the 6:15 wake up talking but so far today i have been feeling really crappy about this building. Now that I'm back at school after being off for a week it is really making me realize how much i want to leave. Up until now i didn't really care to get out of high school, and i didn't really care to move on. But now I'm anxious, I cannot wait to get started someplace else. This environment is really starting to bore me, painting in the same room, seeing the same people every day is pretty uninspiring. A new space and a new set of suggestions/feedback is something i really want right now.

I think all i may need is a big project, with the time constraint i have on my concentration I really cant do anything like that at the moment.

Brainstorming can't hurt tho!

=)

Got into Alfred University.

And it feels pretty damn good.

Update

Haven't done a real posting for a while, this is what i have been up to,

Concentrations are in full swing, i have 4 of them going at the moment, none of them i am extremely excited about but at this point I'm just worried about getting them done. Deadlines are closing in fast and at this rate i should be finishing a new piece about every 4 or 5 days. Luckily for me getting started on a project has been very easy these days, the problem i am having is finishing them. I cant go a couple hours into a project before getting an idea and wanting to start a new one.

ALSO, i have been really getting into the mud lately! I have been practicing some throwing on the wheel, which still frustrates the hell out of me but i am getting a little better. I just love sitting in English class after i throw, zoning out from the teacher, and picking clay off my arms. I have figured out that the class is bogus, and that perhaps picking clay off my body is more beneficial then listening. It has taken me all of ceramics 1 to switch from thinking 2d to 3d, but now that that switch has been made I'm really starting to get into it. If i started ceramics earlier i would have really liked to do an all ceramics portfolio, maybe go to school just for ceramics. Perhaps later i can go that way if i still am having these excited feelings.

Lastly, I should be hearing from Alfred in the next week or 2. I am so antsy!!! Over the weekend 2 of my classmates got accepted, I'm hoping to keep the trend going. Because if i do get in it is very likely that ill end up there.

Mhmmm

I've been thinking

i NEED to get my licence. This has been going on way too long.

yesterday's drawing

Im starting to have serious feelings about MCC

It has come to my attention that 2 years in a community college may be good for me. A coworker yesterday was telling me how going to MCC for 2 years and then Fisher is going to put him in 40 grand of debt. Then he started talking about his friend at Alfred that is going to have over 100,000 for the 4 years he has been there. I always knew that ide be saveing myself a buttload of money going that route but putting a pricetag on it is makeing me think.

Maybe i should just suck it up for a year or 2.

This is why i would never want to be a writer

I have been working on this college essay all day. At this point it is just a pile of ideas that have no type of organization or flow to them. It feels like 4 different beginnings to an essay thrown into 1 confusing paper.

I have read it so many times that i don't even think the individual ideas make sense anymore.


I need to finish it tonight!

Last week's figure drawing class.

Here's one of ma drawings.

Let me tell you a little something.

I HATE scholarship applications.

Frankly the most boring, and strangely enough one of the hardest things i have ever had to write is an essay on how wegmans has helped me form my career goals.

Because here is the thing,

The only goal it has helped me form is to NOT be working at Wegmans.

I'M HUNGRY

I got denied from the lunch room today. Bullshit.

Also a new still life is in progress. If it works out nice it might just be the last of my observation stuff for my portfolio!

AND

I got class tonight! Its definatly one of those drawing days for me. =)

So this is what i have been working on

Finished a mixed media still life piece that i am pretty pleased with. Did a white on black still life thing that I'm not very happy with. If i remember to take pictures tomorrow ill post em.

In other news, i decided that I'm going to start posting a figure drawing image and a sketchbook image of the week.

These are them:

Color pencil worked over a reference photo for "Wired"

Progress

Suny aps are in. Transcripts are in.

Heres the list:

1. Buffalo University
2. New Paltz
3. Purchase
4. Alfred University
5. MCC

Sick

Feeling pretty shitty today, swollowing is hard due to my sore throat, nose is stuffy and my cough is just the iceing on everything. Im still waiting for the cold medacine to kick in and then i intend on getting some things done.

To Do:

• Revise research paper>>> email it
• vacuum bedroom
• laundry
• start self portrait

Today during my free

Renee made improvements to her sketchbook.

Update

Cante crayon drawing is done. I worked some on my mixed media project, but nobody else has finished that yet. So it looks to me like I'm up to speed on everything. Next time I'm in at work I'm going to take off an entire weekend to just do my college aps. It needs to get finished ASAP. There just isn't any kind of motivation that i am receiving except to get people off of my back about it.

Figure drawing class #1

LOVED the class. The teacher is really nice, the class is small and the envirment is lovely. Since it was the first class and almost all of us had never drawn a model from life befor we started at the very basics. First thing we did in class was figure out the movement of the model useing line. After that we moved on to adding mass to the stick figure and it amazed me how helpful those starting lines were. I got decent drawings just about done in half the time. For half the class we did demos and about 15 2 min drawings. Then we did 3- 20 min drawings.

These are my 20 min drawings.

NOODz

I have my first figure drawing class today, i have been excited all week for this and cannot wait to meet the teacher and the other artists in the class. Last night i found out 2 people from my art class are signed up as well. It is pretty neat to have some friends in there but I'd rather not turn the class into a social thing. Also I'm concerned about the one kid's maturity. This is the same kid who was flipping through an art book last year pointing out all the naked people.

Today i also went to the school to talk to Mr. Stephens. I am going to be submitting a portfolio of work for scholastic and he was showing me the 7 pieces he already photographed to be submitted. I need one more piece to complete the portfolio, he said the best choice would probably be a self portrait. So my goal for tonight is to complete my mixed media project so i can get going on that.