First day of class orientation for me!

This morning when I woke up it was another sunny day!  Makes it so much easier to get out of bed when you see sunlight glowing behind the curtains!

Drawing I did today of St. Gertrud Kirche . . .
I painted over it with watercolors and it kind of
smudged the ink . . . so the bright and sunny
day did NOT come across at all  :)

I went to Finkenau (the art campus) for the Nude Painting orientation.  It was really short, like 20 minutes, so I was free by 9:45.  I texted Marni to ask if she wanted to go and draw someplace, because it was such a beautiful day, but she wasn't feeling well so I spent a short while drawing by myself at St. Gertrud-Uhlenhorst, a really beautiful brick church just a couple blocks away from Finkenau.  After that I went home and spent a chunk of time doing some more mock-ups for the City Light blueprint image.  Got them all sent off to Joey tonight.

I couldn't stay inside the whole rest of the day--it was way too nice--so I did a loop around the Stadtpark in late afternoon.  Found some cedar and pine branches and some cedar cones that had fallen from trees, and brought them back to my room for more green decoration.  (Ironically, today is the first day of spring, and now I replace the daffodils on my desk with evergreens.)

Tomorrow I have orientation for Picture Book and a Mezzotint Printmaking class!  I can't wait--all the courses sound so fun!

Listened to lots of music today--Paul Clark, Josh Garrels, and now Mumford & Sons.  Really liking all of it . . . most of it is stuff I just recently put on my iPod and haven't listened to much until now.  Should have been listening to M. & Sons waaaay before this!  Really good songwriting!  "In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die/And where you invest your love, you invest your life/Awake my soul, awake my soul/For you were made to meet your Maker . . ."