I got into going out and painting with a little traveling watercolors set I had to get for a summer workshop class. Watercolors are uh??? hard????? but it's really nice to have to sit and think about it, and it was a nice review of my color theory class from this last Spring semester.
This is my second go. We went to the big Bellevue mall, got jamba juice, and sat in the sun for an hour or so. It wasn't really that good of an art day, and the second half of the painting looks like poop so I only took a picture of half of it (HA)
This one's my first attempt. We went to the Kirkland waterfront which is actually a really nice place to go! They have beaches and benches and a nice walking path along the water!
Summer's been weird. Living on my own for the summer's been weird. I've been getting homesick a lot, but Washington's still alright.
I've been busy yet I still have enough time to do things like go to roller derby games or Seattle with friends, but I still have enough time to sleep and binge on bad 80's movies via Netflix. Have you ever seen The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? It has Jeff Goldblum dressed as a cheesy cowboy. And it's like two hours long, but I love it.
What about Rock and Rule?
It has the voices of Blondie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and some other guy they say is important but I honestly don't know. I watched it with some friends and the entire movie, we joked how one of our professors probably worked on it. Sure enough, his name was the very first under background paintings. Five minutes later, I went to figure drawing and he was sitting across from me. That was weird. Got to see him under a new light.
Anyway, I've been keeping a life points list to keep me from feeling like I'm wasting time (because I'm not? Digipen has really skewed my perception of free time. If I'm not busy all day everyday, I kind of get the jitters. I don't know if that's normal).
I like reflecting back on them though. Some days are really eventful, like:
June 16, 2014 Monday
drove self and Taylor to Seattle (and during rush hour)
checked first book out at the digipen library
carried a conversation for two hours
pushed way to front and center at Mewithoutyou concert and held it for the full hour and a half
got two set lists from the show
drove self and Taylor home from Seattle
but the next day will be something dumb, like:
June 17, 2014 Tuesday
unclogged first toilet
And you know, that Mewithoutyou concert was pretty great (yeah, I saw them in February too), even if I was bruised and sore for an entire week.
I'll try to catch up on writing though and recap the end of my semester. Finals weren't that bad (they were still pretty bad.) and I've done a lot this summer so far, so y'know.
