Art stuff

Today was book class and YAY!  My teacher approved of "The Rainy Big Wave Day" for my book project.  I'm so excited to do something that is connected with family and childhood memories!  It will be fun and hopefully really cute when it's finished!

It was a super nice day today--the perfect kind of spring-day warm.  Right now it's bedtime and I have the window open!  I had about two hours between classes, so I sat at one of the outdoor cafeteria tables to soak up the sun.  It's been a while since I did that . . . I've missed it!

Printmaking class was pretty easy--a lot of review of basics that I already learned in the other class.  The teacher briefs me on what we're doing in English, but for the most part she's speaking German, which is good for me.  I need to hear it spoken more if I want to be able to learn new words and phrases.  This weekend should be good.  Printmaking is fun--the lab is a pretty mellow place for the most part, and you sort of get lost in what you're doing as you go along.

By popular request (aka from Mommy), I'm posting some of my more recent artwork so you can get an idea of the stuff I've been doing.  I kind of categorized it by topic.

School stuff

Rainy Big Wave Day prototype illustration

My first etching--this was a big hit in my class!  I like it a lot.

My first monotype print

Ideas for illustration class . . . was thinking about illustrating a French poem, but ended up going with the "Rainy Big Wave Day" instead

More test illustrations for French poem that I probably won't use (at least not now)

Random sketchbook and painting stuff

Candid moments on the train

The view out my bedroom window!  I love this one.

"The Firebird," done in pen and beet juice!

Amsterdam

Bloemgracht Canal

Outside a weed shop (she was sitting across from the pizza place where I was)

Bikes!

Rijksmuseum Garden

Kraków

After Auschwitz

More Auschwitz-inspired sketching