Unless you count being a mom, wife, student that is.
Life is happening for sure – it just feels accelerated - is it really almost Friday again? One of the classes I’m taking is called “Plants in Design” which made my head ache during the first 6 weeks of class. We learned how to id plants and had to memorize common names and their Latin names. The latter is what made my head throb – sometimes I’m just not sure how much room my brain has for all this extra info. We had weekly quizzes where we had to identify 15 plants chosen at random by the professor out of the 20 – 30 plants we had learned the previous week. While we only touched the surface on all available plants, we did focus on local native and adapted plants to Colorado and our climate.
Last week, we shifted gears and have started weekly journal assignments. While this relates to landscape design, I was quite relieved to be doing something artistic again and gladly pulled out my water color crayons. Our assignment was to choose a landscape related term and explore that term visually and verbally. Since I have an art background, I decided to analyze color theory and how it relates to the natural and built landscape. I have another page or two to add since I only briefly considered what it would be like to be “color blind” – one of my classmates confessed that he is color blind and gave me more information on how he perceives certain colors. I found out that 52% of men have some version of color blindness – that’s a pretty huge number. Color theory and perception is a huge topic, but I felt like I gave it a good start. For next week’s assignment we will be exploring the topic of “Enclosure”.
Still no clay activity around mi casa. Last weekend was very busy around here, so hopefully, this coming weekend will be more relaxes and allow me to get muddy again so I can bring a few things to the Colorado Potters Guild show in November.
I know my blog is gathering a few cobwebs here and there and with all of my obligations, I find that I’m using Facebook more and more to catch up on everything that is going on with people.
Happy Thursday everyone,
Cynthia
6 Responses to “What’s new? Not a whole lot…”
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A+!!!
Very interesting stuff and your illustrations are fantastic!
Your journal pages are wonderful, probably felt pretty good to get visual again?! Don’t worry, things will simmer down a bit then you’ll have finals, then the Holidays, then a new semester! haha! It’s all good
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Such a neatly kept journal. Noticed the last line on the last page. Nothing is a single color. Aint that the truth!
totally cool assignment, i had no idea that many guys had colour perception issues! haha….makes sense though when discussing colour with buds everyone seems to ‘see’ it differently….
the more you memorize the easier it will become, the memory synapses get trained. 52% of men are color blind – wow that it is interesting and what Janet said nothing and no one is a single color
when we strated making pots I realized that color is different for different people.
Men and women. Some folks look at our black blue glaze and say. I like your teal- now I don’t see teal but they do.
Some people see more brown in the black glaze then black and on and on.
It is when they pick up a pot and point to one little spot and say, “could you make it all just like this.” Brother- makes me want to go work at the (this will date me) 5 and dime……
Keep up the good work it will pay off for you.