Starlace

I guess I'm replacing my last "i'm bad at journaling" entry with a new "i'm bad at updates of all sort!" entry. The good news is...I'm alive! I'm still an artist! I didn't do a lot of art on my own last semester, which was my first at Indiana University, but this semester I've started doing a lot more (and does it ever feel great.) I don't really know where I want to go with my style or what I'm doing artistically...at all...between my studio art major (more on that in a sec) and just trying to figure out generally what I want to do personally and career-wise. Whatever I'm doing though, I should hopefully start updating more often, and if not immediately, definitely once summer starts.

I wish I could post more of what I'm doing in classes, but so far I've only taken some fundamental 3D and color theory classes so they're not really at all like what I put here, much less what I want to be doing. It's actually pretty unfortunate because IU has everything I want (scholarships! study abroad programs! italian! close to home! not too close to home! brother and sister on campus!)...except the art program. I don't like or trust the art program from what I've seen so far which sucks because I'm, you know, part of it. Right now I'm hoping to make the best of it and find some awesome professors in higher level courses, and then get a masters in illustration. But who knowwwwwssss.

Life!!?!




meantime I have to find a summer job and housing for next year and generally be a responsible adultlike person and
help



listening to: florence + the machine
eating: biscuit & jam
reading: what am i not
watching: vikings, semi-reluctantly

I always have been.
Anyway...
Sorry for the lack of new art/updates lately; my excuse is getting ready for college, which starts on Monday. (Quietly freaking out.) I'm definitely majoring in studio art!--but this semester my only art class is 3D, so I don't know how much of that I'll post. Hopefully, I'll have time to do some personal work on the side too. And I'll try to get some finished work up soon. One of my main problems is that oil paintings are hard to photograph and impossible to scan, but I'll see if I don't have some files stashed away somewhere. And I occasionally post [sic] exclusive content on my tumblr, stardust-bones.tumblr.com, too.



listening to: dreams - fleetwood mac.
eating: gum
reading: lord of the rings, the letters of vincent van gogh, genesis
watching: if I could find "the hour" online that would be helpful

This man at my church wants me to design (for money) a logo for a company which he's starting.
He told me it was supposed to be a company for taking care of other companies' internet marketing or something? But now he thinks that's a bad idea, so he doesn't quite know what he's going to do with it. Therefore, he doesn't quite know what kind of a logo he wants.
At this point in our conversation I had a phone call, and then we had to leave and I was trying to politely end the conversation (note: I'm not good at *politely* cutting off conversations with an insistent interlocutor) and was only half listening as he continued explaining the idea to my sister.
From what I gathered he doesn't know what kind of feel he wants for the logo/company--he wants me to come up with it. He wants an artist who will come up with a concept that will fit his concept that he's not going to explain???

/sarcasm/ Well. You can guess how easy that would be. /end sarcasm/

And when she asked him directly what sort of a logo he wanted--no clear answer. He doesn't want to tell us, if he even knows. Then he gave me his business card and said I could email him if I was interested.

The whole thing was weird and I don't know what he expects. If I see him at church this week I guess I'll ask him (while paying attention) for more information on what he wants, or maybe I will email him. I mean, it is an opportunity to get money, so...But if he won't give me anything to work with, well, that's the end of that.

Funny times.



listening to: josh groban, fun.
eating: banana muffin
reading: lord of the rings, the letters of vincent van gogh, sherlock holmes, jeremiah
watching: the mentalist

Hello! I've now been on deviantart for a year, so a journal to that effect seemed appropriate. Thanks for devwatching me, you guys are great.

I'm going to be posting some oil paintings now, as I'm taking a class Oils are awesome. Which would of course be why people use them instead of acrylics. (They are however a LOT more expensive...le sigh.)
In the fall I'm going to be majoring in Studio Art at Indiana State, which will hopefully be edifying and fun and all that good stuff. (Hopefully. I'm having a bit of a fifth life crisis re: college and art and life choices. It doesn't help that I don't know much about IU's art school, but I guess if it comes to it I can switch schools or majors.)

Okay, I'm bad at writing journals. Signing off now.

my tumblr: rosica.tumblr.com



listening to: my pitbull scratching on the door. Guess I should let him in.
eating: grapefruit
reading: The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, vol. I

I started a tumblr (rosica.tumblr.com) and a blog (stochasticreveries.wordpress.com). The tumblr is for my sketches, quotes I like, things I find beautiful, and expressing my love for certain things (Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, etc. etc.) Basically, my mind, incoherently.
On the blog I'll post poetry/ruminations on life/artwork/anything else. So again, my mind, possibly slightly more coherently and doubtless less frequently.
If you'd like to check them out, please do!



listening to: Eye of the Tiger - Survivor, and Carry on My Wayward Son - Kansas...over and over and over.
eating: a peach