October 3rd!

Well, the first month has gone by already, only seven more to go. I feel that the time is going to just wizz by. In two weeks today is our mid-term is two weeks on this day. I saw my professor today and I'll be meeting with her tomorrow to go over the work I've made so far. She seems to be expecting a lot from us, however I don't think anyone is going to have produced as much work as they might have in the city as we've just finished our new month in a new country, we're just getting over getting settled so to speak. I have twelve paintings done so far (there are some more, but I don't care about them). It's not as much as I'd ideally want to have done for the mid-term, but I still have two weeks to pump out more work. I want to at least finish my watercolour block off (which I am working from now) and then do at least one painting in larger scale.

My days since the Gori Collection have been fairly quiet. I've been trying to pump out paintings, mostly. Saturday, was the Launch of the new games workshop game Dreadfleet. It looks like a cool game, but too ungodly expensive for me. However, I went to the launch anyway and spent the morning with a whole bunch of Italian gamers dressed like pirates. It was fun, but I didn't spend to long.



I ended up getting two paintings done that day ( I felt productive). I'm finding that some days I'm a lot more 'motivated' then others. Just natural I 'spose. I'm still searching for good painting spots where I can chill out unmolested by tourists. I've encountered a lot of people taking photographs of me while I am painting/sketching, or creeping over my shoulder. I zone 'em all out though as I enjoy listening to podcasts while painting.

Our art history professor, Peter, invited us to the art show opening of a friend of his in a local bookstore. I showed up late (as I was finishing a painting) and only my Proff, Sarah, Melissa and Heather were there. I got a seat up from with my classmates while Peter read from a five page script in italian abot his friend and his work. Peter then provoked us into asking questions. I asked a fairly uncreative question about preference for the artists scale and shape of canvas, so at least one of us said something. Afterwards we had champagne and orange juice.

Friday we had a surprise birthday party for Iskuhi, which was rather nice. A good number of people showed up.

Today, it was Agata's birthday, so we made some Pizza's and then were going to watch "A Dangerous Method" at the local cinema, but it was canceled due to another movie playing and that films director in audience. Oh well.

We went to a Dali and Rodin show near the Uffitzi, however the Rodin's were all copy's of copy's and looked pretty quite terrible. The saving grace was a collection of water colors by Dali, inspired by Dante's divine comedy. They made the whole show worthwhile, as the Rodin's were laughably bad.

Speaking of bad, here are some terrible pictures of some of my paintings I've done since the last update. I promise I'll better document this stuff in the future.









That's all for now!