day 20 (sept 29)

day 19 (sept 28)

day 18 (sept 27)

day 17 (friday, sept 24)

Drunk drawing. All the pressure of knowing what to do... I wasn't ready, but didn't want to get behind. What we talked about will happen tomorrow, changing the rhythm within the drawing.


This is what I wrote at the museum.


This is when the neighbor's gas line was leaking, called the fire dept and waited on my porch.




This might actually be my favorite drawing I've done all semester.


I don't actually want to trade in 3 pages of drawing for one page o drawing. But I do think I should write more without complaining.

meeting summary

Yesterday Mark and I video skyped for well over an hour. He pointed out a few things that I was afraid of admitting. I've plateaued. The work doesn't seem to be changing or growing. He gave me an assignment last week, that I do some "collage" type drawings where I draw different elements from different viewpoints and spaces, all on one page, showing a rhythm not only across the page but also in and out of the page, speeding up ans slowing down, rendering as well as loose gestural suggestions of forms. We discussed the outcomes of the assignment, and I got more clear about what he meant. We talked about my hideous ellipses and he gave me some good suggestions, including letting the structure show underneath more sensitive lines. He asked me to use more color and pattern for emphasis.

day 16 (sept 23)

5"x8" sketchbook (drawn at ellwood's)



5"x8" sketchbook (drawn at ellwood's)




10"x7" sketchbook (drawn at nacho mama)



8.75"x11.5" sketchbook (drawn at home)



8.75"x11.5" sketchbook (drawn at home)



5"x8" sketchbook (drawn at home)




5"x8" sketchbook (drawn at home)

day 15 (sept 22)

All of these are in a 5"x8" sketchbook. I absolutely love this landscape format journal! All of these were drawn at home.

day 14 (sept 21)

5"x8" sketchbook all drawn at home.

day 13 (sept 20)

The first 2 spreads are of the assignment:






It got too dark. I need to start this process earlier in the day...


The rest of these were done in my house. They are not collages. I just started on one thing in the middle and went from there. 

day 12 (Sept 17)

I went to the VMFA yesterday and the thing I got most into drawing was the backhoe on the lawn. I did one sort of copy and that's about it. I found it to be horrifyingly boring. None of the galleries that I love have any benches. The benches are all over in classical and Faberge.

I was so awkward. I'm going to force myself to try that again a few times and see if it gets easier. If not I'm going to skip drawing there and just go to soak in the loveliness. I tear through that place like it's my job. I go say hello to all of my favorites, Ben Shahn, Paul Klee, Otto Dix, David Schnell, the current Chuck Close rooms, Diebenkorn, Warhol, the Toulouse-Lautrecs in the Art Nouveau wing. I can see everything I love in less than an hour. To draw I went to the benches amid what I don't love, I went to areas of the museum I've never been to.

I have this idea, based on the way I visit the museum, and the diversity of friends I know here, and the VMFA slogan, "It's your art." I want to have each of my friends take me to their VMFA, and then I could draw my friend and the art they love. It could be really wonderful. Perhaps I could be less awkward. Perhaps it will be a train wreck, who knows? But those are my thoughts for today.