Strange Days

Heyyyyy.....

It's been a hectic week, I'm sorry I took so long to post....I had wrote this whole post about my art class and when i went back to post it, it had signed me out and the whole freaking post disapeared. ..::Dur::..

So art class day, I popped in my Prince "1999" cd, and rode thru the evening air, sailing. Remember when 1999 seemed so far away? Remember parting like its 1999, cause it was 1999?

Lemme tell ya somethin, if u didn't come 2 party, don't bother knockin on my door.
I got a lion in my pocket, and baby he is ready 2 roar

So anyway, I found the place pretty easy, (mapquest is the shiznit)was about 5 min late, but there were two people that showed up much much later than me, so i felt a little better. :::cheese::: I think i was thinking that the person who would teach this class would be some hip artsy worldly chic or dude who'd had a few art shows under their belt, maybe not young, but certainly not old enough to be my grandmother. Pat...that's her name, Pat. She seems really nice...and maybe I could be accused of age-ism here, I just thought it would be someone a little younger.

I don’t really think this will be a place for me to make new friends, half the class is teenagers and the other half is over 50, got me wondering if this was a good idea after all.

She started us out with everyone introducing themselves, and turns out that most of us were from “up north” only two of the teenagers were actually from GA. So that was pretty funny. She had us start out working on a still life of some plants/flowers and a statue of a white rabbit. I’ve never done still life’s before, and thought it would be really hard. I’m always downing myself and saying I cant draw, when in fact, when I do draw, everyone tells me how great I can draw. :::shrugs::: go figure.

Anyway, I paint from my imagination, usually collage pieces with lots of color or hip hop mixed media pieces, depends on what I’m in the mood for…and that’s why I learned something new from this class (as I hoped I would)…..she had us sketch it out with pencil, go over it with sepia and the do our shadows, and then add color. My backwards ass use to just start with color and go from there, lol.

Pat walked around the tables while we painted, and she told me twice "i love your colors" "great colors!" and then the last go round she slapped me on my shoulder and said "thats really great!" don't mind me, im such a compliment whore...:::cheese::::


but seiously, i was panicked when she told us to sketch, and it should have been the least of my worries, I held up great, one guy was so nervous, he never even painted at all, he just barely finished the sketch by class end. Poor guy, he seemed really nervous.

I'm still glad i took the class, no doubt, see, that’s why I felt…even though I’m a dope cook, I could pick up some tricks if I took a cooking class….same with this…I know that anything I pick up from this class will only make me a better artist. And that’s good by me. So we should be finished with this painting this Tuesday she says and be starting on the next, which is pretty cool. I’m gonna take some pics and post, so ya’ll can check out my style, haha.