First Day Of Classes!

First day of classes!  Whoo Hoo!  This morning I had my Treasures of Provence class.  Basically what I will be doing in the class is traveling around the Provence region of France and learning about the art and history of the area.  Today we watched a interesting documentary about the Cave paintings that are not to far from here.  The Paintings themselves where amazingly preserved because they were sealed air tight in the cave for thousands of years keeping them as fresh as the day they were painted.  When they were originally found, no one believed that they could possibly be authentic because they looked like they were painted yesterday!  But they were indeed real and have become known as the best preserved works of art from that era.  I thought that the documentary itself was well done and the fact that the sized and shape of the cave would not allow the film crew the luxury of being able to get out of the shot gave the viewer an insite into how the documentary was made.  I did get a little confused about the relationship between the albino alligators that were exposed to radioactive waste causing their strange coloring and the cave paintings.  It seemed to me that the director became so intrigued with the reptile that he had to find a way to include it in his film.  I am very excited about the amount of traveling we are going to do in this class.


Image to print was... interesting... I have never been to into printmaking after having many bad experiences with it in high school, but I hope that this class will change my mind about the media.  We created aliens that are supposed to be invading Lacoste.  I like how my alien came out.  I was happy that I was able to combine elements of my style into her character design because I've been having a hard time lately drawing characters styles constantly.  I hope I can continue it!  My style has been described by many as "pukingly cute."  While I really enjoy drawing this way and I feel like this style fits very well into children's book illustration; I want to be able to work on developing another style that can be taken more seriously.

It seems like I have my work cut out for me this quarter!  Tomorrow is Travel portfolio.  Wish me luck! Goodnight y'all!