September 1st, 2010
Enjoying… my few short weeks of summer vacation before they slip away yet again.
Reading… The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee. I’ve been such a slacker with reading this year and had initially started this back in January. Appalling, really. But I’ve started setting more time aside to enjoy my old favourite hobby this month. Next on my list is Jane Eyre.
Eating… cinnamon buns by the plenty! It’s hard to resist when they’re freshly baked and smell so tasty!
Painting… my numerous unfinished canvases I plan to hang in my apartment. My previous stance on painting has been less than enthusiastic, but it’s quite enjoyable when you’re not forced into it.
Flying… out to Ontario to visit my parents for a week. I just got home last night, hence this belated post.
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August 30th, 2010
Love, thy name is Alphonse Mucha, thy trade is Art Nouveau, and you make the wings of my heart flutter. (And say really lame/cheesy things apparently.) I’ve always been super duper into art ever since I was younger, and I’ve had my obsessive phases with different movements and artists over time, but for some reason, I never quite appreciated the beauty and fluidity of Mucha’s work until about the last year or so.
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August 28th, 2010
Ladies and gents, I’ve got a girl crush on Amanda Seyfried. And I’m not ashamed to admit it.
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August 26th, 2010
I seem to be going through an obsessive blue phase right now. As I’m sure I’ve already alluded to on numerous occasions, I have bizarre colour addiction periods. Perhaps that makes me a bit of a modern-day female Picasso? (Minus all of talent, of course. I could never compare myself to him in that regard.) And just like our beloved Monsieur Picasso, right now I’m going through my blue period. My heart has been completely captured by blue. Super, duper, bright, bold, and in your face blue. The more saturated, the better!
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August 24th, 2010
Well, hello there, what do we have here? An Adventures of an Interior Architecture and Design Student post? Did hell freeze over? … I have this tendency to be extremely lax borderline slacker-ish on posting entries for this series. Woops. While in school, I have no desire to think about more school in my free time. And during my break, the last thing on my mind is reliving school… making this the ultimate failure. As a result, I have a major back-log of entries I’d planned to post. So please accept this as my advance apologies for posting this and any future promised entries quite late.
Grovelling and begging forgiveness aside, we’re going to take a little trip into our time machine today back to fall of 2009 when I took Sketching for Communication. In a nut shell, we were taught how to translate the images in our heads onto paper through sketches as accurately as possible. This class was a required class for all non “fine arts” majors (meaning students taking Graphic Design, Advertising, Interior Architecture and Design, etc. – essentially anyone whose major wasn’t heavily based on illustration) and was pretty much a “Learn How to Draw Accurately” type of class.
Concept sketches and roughs for my final project.
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