Good morning! Welcome to Genna's morning routine!

1. Sleep and cry when the alarm clock goes off. 

2. Don't look outside the window because you will cry more once you realize how beautiful it is and you cannot enjoy it. 

3. Sit up in bed

4. Grab computer that is placed on the edge of bed. 

5. Still sitting on the bed, turn on the computer

6. Write. 

I seriously do not have a life and until the end of April will I have one. The first day of spring has passed and every day since has been B.E.A.UUUUUUUtiful! But not one day have I enjoyed.. Last week I finished an 8 page paper and almost immediately I had to start writing a 5 page paper. And, LITERALLY IMMEDIATELY I have to begin a 10 page paper after this 5 page one.... 

Icanteven. 

Art is Life

Browsing through pieces of art from some of my favorite artists while I take a break from studying and I ran into this piece with a quote from Basquiat. To say he hit the nail on the head is an understatement. But I CAN say he took the words right out of my mouth. Studying Art is an opportunity I am beyond grateful for but sometimes while I am in class it's a struggle for me. And this piece completely captures the reason why. When you study art, they teach you the technical side, the proportion, scale, space, contour line, 2D, 3D, etc. All of these things are beneficial to learn and can expand your skills with practice, but at the end of the day I just DO art. I don't think of the things I learned because it's not how I learned to do art in the first place. I just picked up a pencil and drew what I saw and practiced. When I do art, I don't think about the technical side, I think of life and before I know it I have a piece of art. I have theories, I have ideas and have my own opinion on what objects and people and everything in between mean to ME and what they represent to ME.  I don't believe there's a a way to learn art. Everyone has their own style, if they want to learn they need to practice. No one can tell you your art is good or bad because it's yours. When I get my pieces graded in class, I'm not graded on what my art is, I'm graded on the technical side of it. Again, learning the technical side to art is something I am grateful for and may enhance my skills, but at the end of the day it's not how I make art. Life is how I make art. 

Back to the Grind....

Thinking 5 days of spring break would satisfy my need for a "break" was not enough. I had spent my spring break in Tampa/Clearwater and although I didn't get to do everything on my list of things to do, I still managed to do a lot and see a lot of friends.When I arrived on Sunday, my boyfriend Corey and I painted a collaboration (still unfinished). Monday I was blessed with the worst sunburn of my life and it literally lasted until Thursday! Tuesday I went to Mardi Gras in a little town near my hometown called Dunedin with Corey and my friend Franceska and it was my first Mardi Gras being legal --- Needless to say, it was a great time. From the tricks we learned on how to get free beer, running into millions of old friends, to when we left to go to a bar called Eddies and we met a guy named Freddy who generously and I'm thinking drunkenly paid for every drink we drank. Wednesday was spent eating delicious sushi and catching up with my good friend Carly. Thursday strolled around way too quickly as it was my last full day home and ended with a wonderful dinner out with my family and Corey.

I wish I could re-do the entire week but it's back to the grind and I am now currently staring at my calendar with how many weeks are left of this semester and the end is approaching quickly! These coming weeks will consist of me being a hermit, knocking out papers on top of papers and assignments on top of assignments. Ready to get it doneeeee!

 

Home at last: Spring Break!

No better way to start it off than getting possibly the worst sunburn of my life! Weeee!