the day Sara tortured us...

Second time in three days I've seen her. Lovely as always. At the end, I told her "you were out to punish us tonight!" and she squealed with laughter. Lots of twists, turns, reaching. I love love love her line, her elegance and sense of balance, and she gives us poses with what one of my teachers liked to speak of as l!ft and bre@th (ie the chest lifts up when you breathe/suck in and down and out when you breathe out). Oh, working on a Master copy at home (painting), taking a sculpt/design class in a week and I think my total is something like 6 classes this semester, which I"m doing in the most affordable way (people who know me say I'm the 'bargain hunter' hehe) that I myself couldn't believe how I managed to book all of them (even a few free classes thrown in there..so proud of myself!) Also, in one class, we're learning this programme which will essentially (in the next 5 years) replace PSh0p as a matte painting tool. The positions in many major studios are already dropping out and being made more 'generalist' positions. And now I know how some artists got the realistic look they did with their environments in their concept work...thankfully I own a free PLE of the software already (because I'm nosy and curious and went through a stage where I wanted to know what EVERY programme was...and now I just roll my eyes when someone in class goes "could you spell that again!?" Thankfully that software period didn't last and I figured out I am certainly not a modeller (I can do basic basic stuff but I don't enjoy it the way I do just the foundational stuff and designing), but it was enough to get my feet wet and not be intimidated by the GUI of a programme. It's interesting to see, though, that even the texture artists and matte people from this particular studio are all artists as well; they have graphic design backgrounds or even just paint in oils quite frequently. Oh, and here are pics of my palette and colour wheel I've been working on for quite a while. It's a WIP. On the glass palette, I really liked the colours this week :) Reminded me of a toucan. :) As you can see, I mixed a weaker yellow by accident with the Cad lemon yellow and then went oops and mixed the more potent one with the Cad Medium. It's interesting how little things like that can make SUCH a difference. Was learning about how to mix black with viridian also, if you don't have a black. Interesting stuff. Anyways....