Wait Day!

For the celebration of last day of classes, Res Life in our dorm Wait Hall poured the rest of their money into making an epic program which consisted of yummy food, tye dying tees, and painting the epic life-sized bear my friend made in elementary sculpture. After class, I came back to join the most successful program the RA's have held all year, and took many pictures of the bear's progress as well as the several t-shirts I made. It was a great way to de-stress everyone now that finals are arriving.

Here are the shirts I made, the first two being for myself, and the last one I made for a friend who wanted a surprise shirt. My first one was originally a splatter design, but when I hung it on the bench, began to bleed. Yet, lucky mistakes can be awesome!






Here began the process of painting the bear, from ties to tattoos, and many more amusing things.





And the final product:



Overall it was a very successful day!

May Pole

Yesterday was May Day, and downtown on Friday, just one day early, the Waldorf school in town celebrated with some pay pole dancing. I was assigned to go take pictures for the event that might go in future brochures for the school (or maybe even a paper or two), and they certainly came out cute. Today's entry is basically just going to be a gallery of favorites, but please enjoy :]

Things are Looking Grateful Dead

Finally I have finished this design! Weeks ago, we were assigned two pieces on silk for a Batik project. Of course, making this hard on myself, I chose to do a skeleton theme. The assignment was to have one be a scene, and the second be a closeup of that scene (the best way I can describe this). I always tell myself I'm going to keep it simple, but I never learn, because that never happens.

So I chose to do a skeleton, and then a spine - using cool and warm colors on each. I wanted the effect to be a bit more like watercolors, but since this was my first time doing Batik, that didn't really happen. However, with some silk resist, wax, and a little bit of patience, I was able to pump them out.




The Skeleton is shown all dry and hanging up on the clothes line finished! The spine here is an older shot, still wet and unwashed, with the wax still on - but you get the general idea.

In the end, I decided it looked rather Grateful Dead. However, this is only one more reason to like it. :]