Art History

The 12 week fall term has started at TSA.  I persuaded myself to add a fifth course when a second section was added of a course I'd previously been unable to fit in.  All my courses this year are required but they're also all courses I want to take: Colour & Composition, Collage & Assemblage, Life Drawing, Painting (Acrylics) and Art History.

So far I've been to two classes.  Yesterday we played "Exquisite Corpse" in Collage & Assemblage.  That was fun.  We each contributed 3 graphite drawings of a head, torso and legs.  We've started another set using cut-out images from magazines.

In Art History we began with the Romans.  Next week is early Byzantium.  So, pretty quick but at the same time not labouriously slow.  Half the class time will be practical work.  This week we "created surfaces" by pulling paint across paper with a squeegee.  That was fun too.  These are the two I did.

I think the project related to frescoes, murals and mosaics but I'm not sure.  Anyhow, my week has started off pretty well.  Everyone has been open and friendly and I've been fairly calm.  I have to shop yet again for supplies -- gee, too bad!  Not.  I love art supply stores though I've just discovered that gouache paints might be the most expensive I'll have to buy.  Oh well.