A late photo for Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL

I have an Art History exam, all essay questions. It's probably the scariest thing I'll face today.

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New stadium...

The university that I'm attending, U of North Texas, has LOST all 8 football games played thus far. That includes this week which was Homecoming, losing to Troy 45-17. Earlier on the schedule we lost to Rice 77-20. It's official, we suck. Our only hope would be if the St. Mary's Catholic Girls School was on the schedule... although it wouldn't have much of a spread. In fact Hubby unaffectionately refers to the Fighting Eagles as the "Screaming Chickens."

And yet, a vote by the student population was in favor (58%-42%) of building a new football stadium.

According to the university press release, the new stadium will replace Fouts Field and expected completion date is Fall 2011. Luckily the per-credit fee increase won't take effect until then.

My main question is why do we need a new stadium? A UNT home game was on ESPN recently, and we noted the vast amount of empty seats. And it's not like a new stadium will attract better athletes, not with residing in the same state as UT, Texas Tech, Texas A & M, et. al.

One more thing I noticed in the above mentioned press release- it states the current $3 per-credit fee will increase to $10... but it doesn't say the projected cost of the new stadium, information usually presented in an official statement. Hmmmmmmmm. Sounds like a blank check to me.

Funny fact...

I'm amused by the words that people type into Google that lead them to my blog, which I can view on my hit counter stats. And I suppose it shouldn't come as any surprise from my recent posts that one Googler found my website with the search words drunk contour figure drawings.

I might need to work on my "web presence." The world is getting the wrong idea about me! lol

I have the bestest classes...

I really like the Survey of Beverages course. Where else are you served a glass of French wine during lectures?

So letssee... earn college credits for alcohol, nekkid folks, and art... someone tell me again WHY I didn't go back to school sooner?!?

Sorry for all the low-brow humor lately, but the academics have been creating an effluvium from burning brain cells.

(But FYI, I'm getting A's in all my classes so far, including my Chemistry class. Yea!)

Gee, all it takes is a few nekkid drawings to get the comments rolling on the ole blog! haha

On Drawing and Nude Models...


This post includes a small amount of graphic nudity, proceed with your own voyeuristic inquisitiveness.

As I said last week, we've been doing some fairly boring stuff in Drawing class. It starts that way every term, we have to work on the fundamentals first before moving on to more interesting projects. But, for lack of anything else to post, I'll show what we've been doing.

First is an architecture project, a charcoal drawing in two-point perspective. It had to be a location on campus, so this is the inside of Chilton Hall as seen from the railing of the third floor. We had to include an indication of "deep space," so that's why I chose this location where you could see the lower floor through the railing.


Chilton Hall

Next, live models. Anyone who might happen to read my blog may as well expect to see quite a bit of nude art for the next few terms at least, since this class will cover nude modeling (no pun intended) for several weeks, then next term I'll have Intermediate Figure Drawing, and after that Advanced Figure Drawing and Figure Painting.

Anyway, like I said we're starting with boring stuff, mostly line work. These next two are examples of "modulated contour" lines. They were drawn very quickly with a light vine charcoal and Sharpie marker, and to me they're rather messy. But, maybe the messiness adds to it. I keep telling myself things don't have to be perfect, messy is okay.

So far we've had 4 models (much much better than my class at TCC which only had ONE model for the entire term! I came to know her body better than my own, lol.) Two were 20-something year old girls, with fairly "classic" looking average bodies. Then we had a late-20's guy, again with a classic Greek-god type of body. This week we had a, umm, less than idealistic figure. I'm not sure how old this gentleman is, but he had a full silvery beard and matching silver hair that strung out crazily in every which direction giving him a helter-skelter look. And what he made up for in weight, he was lacking in, umm, other certain areas. Or maybe the room was just cold, I dunno. But I couldn't help but smile while I was drawing, wondering if this was the inspiration for the "Ugly Naked Guy" character on Friends.

That being said, I have to admit these are braver people than me, so regardless of their body types I am more than appreciative for the service they provide to us being our models. There's no way I would have the guts to undress in front of a bunch of people and pose while they ogle and measure each proportion with their eyes, all for a mere $17-18 an hour. Not that anyone would want to draw my skinny frame anyway, but still... I'm not sure there's enough margaritas that would get me drunk enough to model nude.

By the way, I had one of the hardest views in the class with the above pic. There's not much room in our classroom with all the easels set up, so I didn't have much choice on this pose. It's a difficult position to draw, due to having to show the foreshortening of the legs. Most students had a side view, much easier to draw. But then most of the other students are young girls, so they were probably relieved that they didn't have to draw this view! I have no problem with it though. Heck, I've been married long enough that I have no modesty when it comes to drawing male body parts. While I am too modest to model myself, I'm not at all bashful when drawing someone else. I may as well be drawing a bowl of fruit for all I care about nudity in that respect.

Alright, that's all I have to say about that for now. I'm supposed to be writing a Chemistry essay, not writing about nudity on my blog. Have a nice week to all.