bear ass but not bare ass

It has been so nice waking up at 11am every day this week. I spent some time visiting Smells in Clarksville this week. While she was at work, I spent my time running errands. I went to the Clarksville public library on Monday to do some bear research. I was pleased to find that they had a ton of art on display. They had this awesome quilt.

Look at that delicious type!

Also, look at this cute bear I found while doing research.

Also, I had a good hair day while I was in Clarksville. Face is questionable.

this is a long post

I'm taking a few minutes to write this post so I can remember this time in my life. I'm currently sitting in the attic-like area of Hammond Hall. The time is 10:36pm. I'm fairly sure I'm the only one here, but I haven't gone to check because these jeans are making my legs chafe and I'm doing the least amount of walking I can today. I need to remember to wash clothes when I get home. And also, get rid of these pants. I should be working on an annual report for my internship, and I'll get to that. I'm waiting on my other emulsion coated screen to dry & if everything goes as planned, it'll be done at midnight. I mean things never go as planned for me, but I remain hopeful. I keep missing a phone call from Rosh, which makes my heart hurt. (Rosh, I promise I'm not intentionally ignoring you.)

Today was a good day. Nothing was too great. Nothing was too bad. I got to sleep for an extremely long time. I'm finding myself, this semester, really admiring people who can go for days on so few hours of sleep and not completely shut down. I know that sometimes you (and by 'you', I actually mean me) have to stay up all night. Sometimes that just has to be done to get things accomplished. Usually though, when I've stayed up all night one night, I figure out any way possible to get the most sleep possible the next day. It's not possible to catch up on that missed sleep retroactively, I know this, but I do it every time. I will shirk all responsibilities to be able to sleep. I will even skip food. Haha jk I will eat first and then sleep.
But anyway, I got to the university later than I wanted to, but nobody was waiting on me so that was okay. I walked in the door to see TD's lovely, smiling face. Hah. Then I got my transparencies printed. And I got to spend some quality time goofing off with some of my favorite new friends in a teeny time room. I've never felt more stressed in my life, but I know that I've found my people. I can go to these people and tell them my stupid art things and they understand and still like me pretty well.

I finally screen printed my first color for my monster print. (I did not have a good day yesterday.) We're making a book in class, exchanging and compiling all of these prints to make an exquisite corpse type piece. I love this. I love that we're working separately & together at the same time. I can not wait to show it off.

It took me longer than I wanted to get my prints done, but they all turned out so, so nice. The ink was smooth and I only had like 2 where the ink didn't go through all the way & that was definitely because by print 9 or 10, my back was KILLING me. I am so unfit. And I was sweating and everything. Very attractive. But everything else was going so well. I feel like I really know how to screen print now. My registration has gotten so much better. I've figured out that I can get really lined up if I make a right angle with my tape and then have another piece up the side to keep it even more secure. And my ink is coming evenly and smooth ever since I watched this how this guy from my class screen prints and also I watched a youtube video about the best consistency of ink.

I had a flyer for Kappa Pi that I really needed to go to work and print and give to H. I was supposed to meet her at 2:30, but like I said, was running behind, and I didn't get over there to meet her until 3:10. So in turn I was late to my printmaking class that starts at 3. It was really sucky of me to keep someone waiting, but she didn't seem too upset about it. And Prof S was totally cool about me being late.

I forgot to print off my design for printmaking so I spent all of class clicking on things in photoshop and gossiping and creating inside jokes with my friends. I'll have a lot to do this weekend, but that's okay. I always have a lot to do on the weekend.

Went to Jack's with TD and was super pleased with the hamburgers and french fries I had there.

I came over here to Hammond after class and got everything ready to print my second color, and coated my screen with emulsion. Everything went really good with my second color. Like unbelievably good. So here we are. Now I'm going to put some pictures on here to either thank you for reading all this, or to give you something else to do besides read.

See those black rectangles? That's my secret to okay registration.

It's nice to work after hours because I can spread out everywhere.

These colors in this photo do nothing for the actual colors in this print. They are so vivid & nice in real life. See that little faint blue mark on the side of the paper? That is a bit of dark blue ink. That exact splotch is on every single print. It really shows the tiny intricacies that a burned screen can provide. This is my best print that lined up as perfectly as possible. I have 3 that I think turned out so perfect. The other 17 are pretty okay. And I am pleased as pie about that.

These are bowls that I'm working on. The bottom ones that look like they're still made of mud, are waiting to be bisque fired and the three in the back that look like they're made of some kind of weird white stuff, are waiting to be glazed.

Captured John Donovan making a hilarious face and Adam Paulek sticking his arm in a pot. These photos are from a visiting artist workshop that we had last week and it was super fun to meet these guys and learn from them. I really want to make a post that just talks about what I learned from those two days, but even if I never get around to it, here are the pictures.

The artist's doing their thing and a bunch of unwillingly photographed students. Plus my new favorite Professor, John Oles.

This is from the last day of the workshop and I just thought it was cool to have the artist that taught us how to make this art holding the art that we made. 

I haven't felt like I've had a lot of time to do big things with AIGA JSU this semester, the little club that could, that my graphic design friends and I started last semester. But in reality we've done some pretty cool things this semester. We talked to the legend Jude Landry one night. One meeting, we met at Java Jolt and drew on this poster. Which turned out so nicely and I only fucked it up a little bit. (And then I promptly fixed the part I fucked up.) I just really like how it turned out and I may take it home and hang it up on my wall at the end of the semester.

This is from Java Jolt and it's less about who's in the photo and what they're doing and more about the fact that a table full of designers are sitting around a sign that says RESERVED in papyrus type. We did not do that, but we couldn't have planned that kind of irony.

This is my teapot sitting right next to John Oles teapot (!) and next to other students work at the Gadsden Museum of Art. 

This is my wine bottle design that won honorable mention in the 2016 Student Juried show at JSU.

And this is me looking dopey near my wine bottle.

"I like your shirt."

You know how sometimes people will comment on things that you are wearing and you'll just flippantly say, "thank you" like you designed and sewed the thing? Well that happened to me today & I just said thank you, but this time I felt it was deserved, because I actually did design this shirt. Somebody else printed it, but still.