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I just wanted to post something related to the painting workshop:

reference

I was playing around and tried drawing (painting?) digitally with shapes. This took me about 42 minutes to do. I think it came out well~!

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Painting workshop day 3 *the other day wasn't official workshop day*.
Today I learned a way that you can bring out what you want people to see in your painting. You darken the lines around the area you want the eye to be drawn to.

Today I first started with the picture from the packet from the Charlie Chaplin movie, since I was playing around after the movie and drew the shapes of the image of the tramp and the flower girl. I liked the result, but I tried doing the same thing on the painting, and was having a harder time...

I used another reference of Charlie Chaplin, and I did better. I was having trouble getting the eyes down, but Luke showed me how to whip it out.
When I got to the point of playing around it the colors and thickness of the paint, I had a little trouble. I usually like painting smoothly instead of globbing it on, but it's another way of doing things, so I might as well try it out.

-random bullet: ...The paint feels neat. I was trying to take some off (it was blending too much in a spot I wanted white) and it was squishy~

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Acting workshop day 4. Today we did more of visualizing than last time (I like calling them meditations). We learned that there's a mask (what you show to the world), a lower self (the bad side of you), and a higher self (why you're here). We also learned that verbs lead to feelings. I found it a coincidence that he mentioned masks since at the poetry celebration on Monday, my poem was about masks (and also a coincidence, Sarah's was too)!

I think I'm opening up a little, but I still need to be more relaxed in order to improv. (and act) better...

-I'm putting this into my response, but in the beginning of the Charlie Chaplin movie I was reminded of the workshop when there was just noises instead of actual dialouge since we were doing that in some of our improvs also...!

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I suppose the last blog could be related to this one, but today was painting workshop day...three I think?

Today's workshop was a little shorter since it took a while to get the commercial done.
Today I learned how you can measure the reference you're trying to paint. I hadn't really done anything like that before (I mostly eyeball) but it is a handy trick to use!

I think I'm still in the "picture perfect" way of painting, but I like the idea of giving yourself a time limit to do a painting...that way you have to focus on getting the impression down first before concentrating on the details.

-I wonder how a painter could take years to finish a painting...? Is it because they wanted it "picture perfect"?

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I was thinking...and I realized this: painting with shapes reminds me of cell shading.

I was on an oekaki (drawing board online) and I saw this picture, which is a good example I think
link to example

the shading here you can see the shapes...

-random tidbit end-

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Acting workshop day 3! I felt that I didn't do as well on the improv.... or else I did all right since people who are backup to a leader don't say much...? (in the scene, Gigi and I were part of a gang. It was a little hard trying to say anything or react since I couldn't really find a place to say anything in).

-I liked the lyrics of the song that we heard. Especially the first two lines:
"you've got such a pretty smile
It's a shame the things you hide behind it"
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I did another painting today, but on newsprint. The reason for newsprint? Well, the canvas I was using, I painted on it and the paint wouldn't come off (I thought that you could wash off the paint even if you left it for a day or two...I was wrong!)...

this is the back of the newsprint I painted on. I thought it looked interesting, so I decided to post it up

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I wasn't sure if we were supposed to put up our daily painting (for the painting workshop), but here's two that I've done so far:

<-I was having a hard time with this one, and ended up not finishing it

I think I improved a little. (I also figured out that if you dab at it with a paper towel that has some paint on it, it creates a interesting effect...did that a little in the second picture)

-will edit later about more things about this week-
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The movie on Friday, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" didn't really impress me. I felt really detached from the movie. All of the characters were lying, or not themselves (since they were all drunk), so all of the events that happened aren't "real". The only part that was of interest was when it was revealed that the child was a figment of the couple's imagination (at first I thought this, but then I thought that the husband killed the kid since it's suggested that the husband killed his parents).

"Urinetown"...at first, I was turned off by the title (at first, I actually thought the title was "Your in Town" since I only heard people talking about it), but if you keep in mind that it's a parody, then it's an enjoyable show. The music was really challenging but since we practiced a lot, by the last show, I was really comfortable with the songs so I could even play the high notes like high B flat! I'm glad it's over since there aren't any late night rehearsals (plus homework after that) but I'm also sad since the music was fun and I got to know the people in the pit better.