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Son of a Copy Lady (excuse my french)

The other night Lori and I went to the lab planning on spending a couple hours finishing our Magazine layouts. It may or may not have been the night before they were due, but whatevs. Anyhow, Mine is supposed to be a magazine for USU. We had to do 6 pages. A cover, table of contents, and 4 pages that had to have at least 500 words per double page spread. It doesn't seem like it would be that bad, but it takes up a lot of time. Anyway a couple of hours turned into 7 and we didn't even realize it because we were having so much fun designing. I love it, because it makes me feel like I definitely made the right decision on a major.

Trying to turn these beauts proved to be pretty difficult.

The day it was due, there may or may not have been some difficulties concerning a certain lady at the copy center. She was really unpleasant towards Lori and I, but happened to be really really nice this guy Cullen.

(My theory is that she is a lesbo and just got out of a bad relationship and has put it upon herself to ruin the lives of girls everywhere. But that's just a theory.)

Anyway, we finally got the pages printed.

Then, the foam board I had purchased a couple of days before was not big enough for all 6 pages.

Great.

So, we made a last minute visit to the Bookstore to purchase board big enough. After we got back we glued the pages on and headed to class. On the way, the klutz that I am, I tripped UP the stairs and bent my board.

FINALLY made it to class and the teacher said it wasn't going to ruin my grade having a creased board. Thank goodness.

The best thing about the friendship of Lori and Kaitlyn is that throughout all of this we just laughed our little heads off until the tears came. It was a fabulous day.

Here's the goods.

(Minus the title page for the article, it was being stupid and didn't want to save to a jpeg)

Magazine Cover

Table of contents

Title page is supposed to go here. Maybe later.

Student highlight Story (Which happens to be me. Imagine that!)

Now the class is over. I'm happy because it is one less thing to worry about, but I am going to miss it!

Cubist Paintings

I just finished up my first painting class at Utah State. The last two paintings have been Cubist paintings. The first one is a technique called analytical cubism, where (quick art lesson) each individual piece is supposed to look like it is slanted in a different direction (not parallel to the picture plane). Mine started out looking like this:

But because it was really "busy", a term we use a lot in art to mean that there is a heck of a lot going on in the painting, My instructor advised me to simplify the shapes and make the painting feel more complete and resolved... here is the end result.

There is definitely some pear business going on, and I also see a girl doing a headstand but you can't see her face... not intentional..

The next project, the final project, is a synthetic cubist project. When he told us about the project (well I wasn't there for class that day, but I heard from others) he said that it was supposed to be a Narrative of one of my early experiences with art growing up. My first thought was a painting of my aunt that is in my grandma Sprouse's house. It was one of those paintings that, looking at it now it is really good, but back then it was so creepy! Her eyes would follow me wherever I went! I couldn't really think of how to do that very well though. I was talking to Hanah G about my project and she said that I should do one of the pink dinosaur. Best idea EVER! So I decided to take her advice.

So I had my idea, now I needed to figure out how to make it a synthetic cubist painting. My professor advised that we all go and look up cubist paintings so that we would stay on track with theobjectives of the assignment. Here are some of the paintings I looked at..