Still Lives....

Shit...I hate doing some things, and worst of all, I kinda hate anything to do with politics. They're all around us in life, and especially when election time is coming up, I tend to get annoyed with them very quickly. Sure, art has a message, but I'm not in the mood for doing propaganda as of late.

However, it is for school, so I have to think of something.

In other news, I've been having fun doing a still life in my painting class. Granted, this isn't paint, but it's pastel, but the basic concept is the same- lay down color and light and then refine it, right?

So I have the "before and after" of the still life, so the speak, showing what I could get done in a 2 1/2 hour block of time if I was in the right mood...towards the end I was sleepy because I had stayed up the night before playing Sims 2. Ehhhh. Any hoo. It might still be WIP, I might try and fix a few more things before I move to another still life....






I've been in a "I need to start from Ground Zero" sort of mood lately, really wanting to improve, and this class makes me happy that I can do something vaguely useful with simple objects....still lives don't move so yeahh....

Today I have Illustration and Illustration media though, and for those classes I need artwork that has well, er, "meaning"...and that will trip me up for awhile. ILL is the one doing "Political" art, and I'm having a problem with that one....I may just draw like a soldier, because I mean, soldiers are political tools, come on,you KNOW it's true...tools to a mean of political peace, war, or some sort of image. Hmmm.

Laterz.