Spring 2011 in a nutshell!

Basically, I worked like a crazy lady this past semester. We moved to an apartment near Reliant Stadium to be closer to school, and I worked at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as a temp retail job that ends, well, today. I focused on my painting class and also had a printmaking class, so I was working 30 hours a week with two studio courses to stay on top of.

Like I've shared in the fall's blog post, I was going up for Block. Block is the name for a group of courses at the University of Houston that serve as quality control. You compete against your classmates, and you only get two tries. Basically, you take painting fundamentals and intermediate painting, and you can apply at the end of intermediate. If you get in you're in and don't have to compete any further, but if you don't and you have tried twice you're just out and that's that. You can still get a general Bachelors of Fine Arts and dedicate a minor, but you can't get the Bachelors of Fine Arts Painting and the intensive studio courses that go with it.

This semester, I tried for the second time.

And I have to tell you,


I GOT IN!!!! :D

I'll have my own studio in the Junior Painting wing this fall and will be studying under Al Souza and Rachel Hecker. :)

You may now imagine me doing ecstatic happy dances. :)

And here are the paintings that I am counting toward this blog. I've been learning to let go of less successful paintings.

64. Fiona Rae Project Insert a toy into an existing painting, like I did last semester with the Alice Neel pieces. Based on Fiona Rae's. Work in progress detail below.

65. From our combination painting project, Hello Picabia.

66. From the same combination project, Kill Dorothy.

Update 5/30/2011 Better pics for the next two paintings.

67. From the final project, a still life Art Student's Breakfast.

68. Memories of My Backyard

This month I've been working two jobs and also teaching after school art classes on wednesdays so I haven't painted anything since Art Student's Breakfast. I actually really enjoyed that still life so I plan to do some more this summer.