First Blog/Late Spring

Hello reader, welcome! 

I’m so glad you have stumbled upon my blog. I’ve been wanting to start one of these for the longest time, and now it is as good as ever. By the time this uploads, I will have completed my first term as a junior at PSU. I took on a significant workload; I was taking 20 credits, and at PSU, the max is 21. I have only ever done that once before, and it was hell, so I’m not sure why I thought this time around would be any different. Anyway I’m so happy to be done with that and enjoy my winter break. This term has been difficult, but I’m so proud of myself for persevering through it. I noticed that I get pretty distracted by my phone, and I have tried to limit that in the past, but I have decided to delete all of my social media, although I will occasionally check Instagram, which doesn’t count to me ;) I hope this will push me to focus on my school work and encourage my art practice. I have mostly been making art only for school, and I want to start doing it outside of that and experiment more. Since moving out of my mom’s house, where I had ample room to create, I have struggled with making space for art. It’s much harder for me to create when I feel confined, but I need to stop being a baby and be more flexible. I even have a hard time doing art in class because I don’t like having people see my unfinished work, and I love to just be in the zone with no distractions. It’ll be good practice to work in different conditions, and I need to also accept that it’s just my reality. I recently bought 50 pounds of clay from Blick. I used to work with clay in high school and during some of my childhood, and I forgot how much I loved it. I want to do something with that clay, and I love working big, so I’d need to do whatever I make in multiple sections. My school doesn’t have a kiln, which is so dumb, but luckily, my grandma is incredible. She has an account at Gerogies (clay studio/store) and has a bunch of credits there that she hasn’t used. I can get my stuff fired and glazed there, but I am stuck on what to create. I’ve noticed that the prompts I get in my art classes help me to ideate my work better. That’s another thing I’d love to work on is if I have an idea, even for a split second, to act on it. Incomplete art can always turn into something complete. Writing all of this is so fun. I always have so many thoughts in my head it’s nice to put them down in writing. If you can relate to any of this, or you’re an artist or are just bored, please reach out to me through my Instagram. You can also sign up with your email and be notified each time I upload a new blog; I also upload time lapses of my process, which I love. Who knows if you will, but go check it out. Thank you again for stopping by.