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 from this semester. 

A brooch with cutout stars of Canis Major, the constellation of  Sirius.

A metal charicature of Kitty. Here’s a picture of her for reference:

And a couple more extra cute ones just for good measure.

This picture also happens to nicely show off my newish tattoo.

Here’s a quilt I’ve been working on. It is currently farther along than it is in this picture, but still a long way from done.

 It was shown in our Intermedia class’s show on March 6.

My lithograph from my printmaking class. I have no idea what happened to my G - I must have spilled something on the plate.

Still life paintings we did for a painting class Jay models for. The top one is his, the bottom one is mine.

This is my linoleum relief that we critiqued today. I think it turned out pretty well all in all, except for a few things:

•  I stabbed the crap out of my hands, multiple times, and a few of my cuts then got black ink in them, so they may or may not be permanently tatooed onto my thumb
• The first color I applied, the turquoise, I had a hard time figuring out how much ink was enough/too much, so the color is kind of uneven on a lot of them
• After running my linoleum block through the printing presses so many times, it was squished completely to the wrong size and shape, so the last color (black) doesn’t line up well at all on most of them.

This picture actually doesn’t accurately reflect the colors I used - the blue is VERY pretty blue-ish green, and the brown on the tree is actually noticeably brown, but you get the idea.

This is my run of color prints from printmaking, in the order I printed them. Click to view larger.

 Also, Jay and I just took the Jeopardy online test for College Jeopardy, and man. It was ridic.

I made a stencil of this to use in my printmaking class. It’s Kitty’s face, based on this picture:

Sadly, someone stole that print whilst it was drying, so my series of 8 is really a series of 7. I actually made a new stencil and then printed 3 more way more awesome prints, and I hope no one steals them before I get back to Menards. I mean, school.

My first-ever print in printmaking class. Click to view larger.

So, I got my midterm portfolio back, complete with comments! These are just a few of the ones I am supposed to redo for the final, but I think the mistakes are pretty imperceptable, not to mention the fact that I couldn’t care less and never will I ever want to spend hours in my life inking straight lines and using geometry to prove my forms. In fact, that is the opposite of what I want to spend hours doing.

A little preview of what I’ll be turning in for my design/drafting class midterm portfolio. It seems really pointless to me, but I have to take it. I just don’t ever forsee myself needing or wanting to use geometry. Compasses and triangles, tissue paper and smearable mediums are a disastrous cocktail.