Pop Goes the Artist!

Exciting news first: I turn 19 tomorrow and an easel for my room has been topping my wish list for months.  So imagine my surprise and delight when I got a package from Dick Blick yesterday, containing–you guessed it–the exact easel I’d had my eyes on.  I didn’t get to put it together until after 11 last night and it took me almost two hours–long after I should have been in bed.  It wasn’t a complex piece of construction and the only tool I needed was the little allen wrench that came with it–but it would have been a lot easier if I had four or five hands, instead of only two.  In lieu of an extra hand, I made use of my elbows, knees, feet, and chin, as well as a stepstool, my desk chair, a brick, a pair of shoes, a makeup brush, and a smattering of salty language.  It was a blast.  I was all fired up to go to downtown to Utrecht this afternoon to get some canvas, but then I realized that without paint, brushes, palettes, and possibly newsprint, a canvas sitting on that easel will do nothing but taunt me.  So that’ll have to wait until after the weekend, when I go home and can bring back some art supplies.

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In other news, I’m adding an art history minor to my medieval studies major, mostly in an effort to be practical.  I really enjoy the fact that my major is so impractical that almost anything–even art history, very impractical by most people’s standards–would improve my odds of finding employment after college.  But I realized that if I want to make a career in museums, then I need a stronger and more formal art history background than I have at the moment.  Which is why, next semester, I’ll be taking Art 212: History of Art, Renaissance to Modern Age.  I’ve met the professor who teaches the class and she seems pretty cool, so I’m looking forward to taking a class with her.

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I realized the other day, while looking at a Metro map, that Arlington Cemetary could be a great place to go sketch and take photos.  I just wish I’d thought of it before the season changed and it got so darn cold out.

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