La Pura Veritá: Classsss

This week was mainly made up of going to class and spending my free time sketching or walking around the city :)
In Jewelry I am almost finished with my Pinocchio pendant!. I have two more rivets to do and then I will completely done with my first project which is really exciting! My Pinocchio may look like he has a snowman head but don't judge :) I am starting to enjoy the class more since I feel like I am working on a piece which is actually mine and am actually creating something. I seem to like when I can see active progress in my work haha.
In Batik I have been working on my second project and waiting for my first project to get back from the dry cleaners, which it finally did and I love how it turned out!

I also finished my second project which is a blue floral scarf that I am really excited to see when it is done being dry cleaned! We had to dip the colors on this project instead of painting it on and it was fun to see the process and how the colors changed as you layered them over one another. My next project I am doing another decorative scarf covered with vintage keys! It is turning out to be pretty tedious but it will be really cool!
In Fresco I got to paint my second painting, which turned out to be the most frustrating class period of my life haha. For one, in my mind, it is completely taboo for a professor to paint on your work. If they are painting for you, then the work isn't completely yours. I have always preferred being told how to fix it and then doing it myself. So I am painting the portrait of my mother and nephew and the faces were looking muddy because I had put too much color on some places. So I asked Mario how I could fix my painting and there he goes, painting the face for me. I tried to get him to stop and let me do it but he wouldn't listen! Then I didn't like some of the stuff he did so I went back to try to change it and he would rush over and tell me to stop messing with the face. Oh I was so pissed at this point. So I finish and the painting turned out ok. Then Mario goes on to tell me that I had picked a too hard subject and I should have chosen something simpler. Well why then Mario didn't you tell me this last week when we showed your our sketches! Needless to say, not the best class period of my life. But for my next project I am doing a sketch from a photograph I took of Sai holding a bunch of grapes and hopefully that painting will be more successful.

Art history is art history haha not really exciting enough to say much about.

Last night was a first for me and the roommates. We held a dinner party, with multiple courses and everything! It was amazing! Dana invited some friends over that she had made at church and we ate stuffed zucchini, tomatos baked with breadcrumbs and cheese on top, cannolini beans, pasta, and pears with chocolate chunk biscotti.