Friday was the last day of class, which means that the year is almost over…?! The year really went by in two blinks of an eye. We’re currently preparing for the annual art show, and had a wonderful drawing session with our model (and complimentary fire ants) in the courtyard outside. We attracted several curious stares […]
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how to stretch a smile
Did anyone watch the Hasan Minhaj’s White House correspondents’ dinner speech this week? His burns were just so painfully terrific that his monologue deserves rewatching. (The audience, however, apparently didn’t think it was that brilliant.) This week, we had a model decked out to the nines, resplendent with a shimmering gold hat-thing and a gauzy black dress and […]
weird rainbow food
The Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino was released only a few days ago, and the world has already lost its mind over the drink. Baristas had melt-downs over making it, Anthony Bourdain said it was enough to nuke the county, and I still think this trend is very passé. Although I’m not as eloquent enough as Anthony Bourdain, Spirit Animal™ […]
spring has sprung and GERD is no fun
Last week, all of the trees decided to finally bloom and our campus is now its Really Beautiful Phase, which is perfect to seduce those prospective students and their parents visiting the school. (The tour guides also know how to work it. “This is The Beach, where everyone hangs out!” said one, pointing to a picturesque scene of […]
mort de rire
Hello everyone, it’s been a while! Things have been slightly chaotic after spring food break. Not dead (yet), promise. Which reminds me, the phrase “mort de rire” keeps popping up in my head (ironically followed by Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life”). It’s the equivalent of “LOL” in French, except the meaning is much more macabre […]
what you should know about drawing models
For the second week in a row, a model came into the studio. She was wearing clothes — as was the previous model — as this class focuses primarily on the portrait, but in figure drawing, models are generally in the nude, because it’s very hard to gauge form and proportion otherwise. In high school, I would […]
allergy season
I took an allergy test two years ago due to a cough that never ended (it was bronchitis), but somehow the results weren’t communicated as well as I’d hoped, and I left the next day vaguely understanding that I was allergic to “some tree.” And bereft some lump sum of money from the test. Well, that […]