After returning from Venice, monday was spent pretty much doing nothing as I posted the previous blog post and got some rest. Venice was fairly fast-paced and most of us were spent by the time we got back. Tuesday I mostly spent working on some sketches, but to be honest I did almost nothing that day. Wednesday we had our art history class and we went to the Museo San Marco. It was a place where people could go to meditate religiously. The building was full of small little cells in which people would enter for extended periods of 'negative meditation'. The cells all featured paintings of religious scenes from the bible, but the best thing was the Annunciation painted by Fra Angelico. Also, Peter talking about if you do LSD you'll see winged elephants and flying horses was pretty great, as well as him talking about the one time he smoked a joint. We also checked out the Cenacolo di Ognissanti. The main boon about it was a last supper painted Ghirlandaio. Great stuff.
Thursday, I spent the day actually working on a new painting. After Wednesday's class, I got a large pad of hot press watercolour paper (about 18" by around two feet), so I got to work translating my smaller sketches into larger more finished works, with a bit of an alteration. After that, I was invited by one of my classmates to join her and some of my other classmates to head to one of their places to learn to knit. I had no powerful reason on why not, so I went. I got a couple balls of wool with the intentions on building a scarf or something simple. However, it's a more difficult craft then what I originally envisioned and accomplished nothing more then learning the steps and constantly re-doing my mistakes.
Friday, we had art history again, this time we checked out the church of San Lorenzo, design by Brunelleschi, as well as the crypt where Donatello is buried. After that, we hopped across the street for a quick look inside the Medici Palace, where we got a seven minute window to gaze at the medici private chapel painting. Very neat stuff, but they have a guard stand in the room with you telling you to leave once seven minutes are past AND you have to make an appointment.
Saturday, all day painting and now it's Sunday. Tomorrow is halloween, so we're having a party at our place tomorrow night. Our professor and Peter are also invited, so it should be fun.
It's been fairly nice here weather-wise. Rainy on monday, so I had to got to the laundromat to dry my clothes. Besides that it's been sunny with a high of around 20 degrees the whole week. A bit cold in the morning and at night, as well as the studio being really cold, but it's comfortable. It's still quite busy with Tourists, but that's to be expected.
That's all for now, however here are some imagines.
First off, a bird has taken a liking to my sun-roof.
Here are a couple of the newer paintings I did. I'm not too happy with the interior one. Too purple.
Finally, enjoying a nice hot cup of tea in the cold studio.
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