RISD store -$338.18
Oil paints:
-Lemon yellow, cadmium yellow medium, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, terre verte, raw umber, alzarin crimson, cadmium red medium, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, lamp black, titanium white (large tube).
Acrylics:
Burnt sienna, ultramarine blue.
Refined linseed oil, 1 bottle.
Gamsol, 1 large tank.
Silicoil brush cleaner.
Palette knives (1 pointed fine detail, one square)
Cotton muslin rough canvas
Staple gun.
Canvas stretcher bar, 2 pairs of 16 inch and 20 inch.
Heavy gloss gesso large tub (for prepping canvas)
Fine sandpaper, 5 sheets (for prepping canvas)
The master's oil paint brush cleaner.
Black wax crayon pencil, #3 hardness.
Black wax crayon stick, #3 hardness.

CVS -$14.11
Herbal essense shampoo, 1 bottle.
Maxi pads, 1 box.

Money spent: $352.29
Money left: $198.51

There's still more books I need to buy, but forget that. I'm going to try and take them out of the library and read them first. If not that, THEN I'll buy them. Every time I have to go to the RISD store to get supplies for painting class I almost have a friggin heart attack.

But my professor liked my oil painting the best. HA.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA IN YOUR FACE! I AM AWESOME.
Oil painting actually really fun. It's just really time consuming. Right now I'm getting ready to prep for the next paintings I'm doing. I have to do one oil painting for painting studio, and another for illustration studio (our professor gave us an extra week - THANK GOD). I'm going to do the painting for illustration in acrylic paint though. That will be quicker and I won't run out of paint as easily.

Did you know that oil paint dries REALLY SLOW? It's still in the cabinet in the illustration studio building because I don't want to touch it before it dries and then ruin it, because I worked SO HARD on that thing.

I'll call you tomorrow!
It's raining so hard right now.

Okay, so I'm in the illustration studio right now taking a short break from my oil painting and using Evelyn's laptop. I just wanted to say wtf people in Providence are SUCH BAD DRIVERS. I was crossing the street from the illustration building to 15 West to get dinner and THE WALK SIGN WAS ON and some STUPID TAXI ALMOST RAN ME OVER. WHAT THE HELL. THE WALK SIGN WAS ON AND THAT THE RED LIGHT FOR TRAFFIC WAS ON TOO. YOU ALMOST MADE ROADKILL OUT OF ME YOU STUPID DRIVER.

I crossed myself over with the lords prayer after that becase thank god that the car didn't hit me but the car didn't even fucking slow down or anything. I HAD TO FRIGGIN JUMP OUT OF THE WAY.

Thank god.
Ugh.

Now back to my painting.

Wire transfer +$482

Church tithing -$50

Books -$48.07
Intertextuality by Graham Allen
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

RISD store -$117.21
Rough grain thick painting paper 2 sheets 18X24
Oil paint bristle brushes, 1 large, 1 medium
Regular acrylic and oil paint soft brushes, 1 large 1 medium
Acrylic and oil paint detail fine point brush
Oil paint glass palette
Glass jar
Artist's masking tape, black 1 roll
Thumbtacks

CVS
Electrical surge protector -$22.03

Money spent: $237.31
Money left: $550.80


덜덜덜.

Illustration studio crit went well. I have a lot of good ideas, but size is a problem. If we had more time I'd be able to make it the size I want to.... like, 4 feet wide size. Right now I'm in the middle of reading and making up work for my English class. Wish me luck.

Illustration Studio: AMAZING.
Oren Sherman is our professor, and I really do believe that he must be one of the best professors here ever. Right from the bat he stated that he doesn't think that the word "commercial" is ugly. Commerce is vital to art, which seems like a paradox but it really isn't. Fine Arts people who say that Illustration is a commercial art are stupid, because as long as there is a consumer, then you ARE a commercial artist. The difference between Fine Arts and Illustration is that in Illustration, you learn to EXPLAIN and COMMUNICATE your own ideas through someone else's concept.

More things that were so amazing:
- Failure is great, as long as you put in at least 12 hours into it.
- Don't perform; work hard and EARN.
- We will grow up to COMMUNICATE with our peers.
- FUN, FAME, and FORTUNE: two out of three of these means a SUCCESS.
- Religious paintings are fine art, but they are also the first ever Illustrations.
- Beauty and Violence are the universal drama of humanity.
- The best illustrations/fine art gets you IN to the story, explains it, and then gets you OUT.
- 나 자신에게 재미있고 인상적이어야 남 한테도 재미있고 인상적이다. If it's not fun for you to do it, then it won't be fun to your audience. In this sense, 에술가들이야말로 정말 가장 이기적인 사람들이다. (나 일러스트 정말 잘 고른것같지않아요? ㅋ)

He also warned us: "DO NOT LOOK AT MY ART. My own personal style and preference has nothing to do with this class, so don't try to imitate it to get good grades. I'm here to teach about how I got here, not what I do, and I do not want to influence your OWN career negatively. I'm here to influence you about how you can also become successful in your own way and have your OWN careers while having fun in life, because life is too short to be boring, and I am sure this is what we BOTH want."

My HW is to take Frankenstein, read it, and connect to it from personal experience. Think deep about the story and how it relates to your own person. We are not going to "illustrate" this book so NO DRAWINGS of actual Frankenstein. We will have our own interpretation.



English Class: BAD.
If Illustration Studio was super amazing, then English class was the exact opposite. Our professor is in fact NOT a professor, but an INSTRUCTOR from the University of RI. Apparently there were so many people who had to take this class that they hired her or something. Plus, she is exactly like Ms. Johnson. No, I will not stand for this. I am paying a FORTUNE to be educated here, so I refuse to be instructed by someone who isn't even tenured. I am going to the Registrar, my Liberal Arts Department, AND my Illustration Advisor to discuss this and switch to a different English class that has an ACTUAL professor before it's too late. I am not going to sit around and let bad things happen. I love this school too much to actually come here and let things go bad. I am taking ACTION.

Virgin Mobile phone fee -$34.07
Laundry charge -$2.00
18X24 smooth vellum -$21.15
Square crayon tablet -$5.00
8mm ruled college standard notebook, pack of 2 -$6.99

Money spent: $69.21
Money left: $306.11

I had my first class today! Drawing for Illustration studio with Prof. Nick Palermo. He is an awesome teacher, so far. He is so encouraging and he keeps on emphasizing that even if we don't like our drawings, we shouldn't be disappointed since it's only a process to the amazing things that we will apparently create in the future, however far off that will be.

Tomorrow I have just Illustration studio with Prof. Oren Sherman. So far I have heard only good things. What I'm dreading is my Painting studio class for Illustration, because we're going to be using oil paints, and that's expensive. We still haven't gotten our supply list yet, but I think that I'm going to need some more money in my account before the weekend because I talked to Jinho (who is a painting major) and she told me that she spent $400 on supplies JUST TODAY. WTF. IS THIS SCHOOL SERIOUS.

This is my schedule:
MONDAY: Painting Studio with Andrew Watel 1:10~6:10
TUESDAY: English Composition & Lit 1 with Bryna Siegel 1:10~2:40
WEDNESDAY: Drawing Studio with Nick Palermo 11:20~4:20
THURSDAY: Illustration Studio with Oren Sherman 1:10~6:10
FRIDAY: English Composition & Lit 1 with Bryna Siegel 1:10~2:40

Don't let the schedule fool you. After this first week everyone everywhere on this campus will be literally be living in studio. I already have Drawing homework. But it's okay because my professor is AWESOME. What's not so AWESOME is spending so much money on frigging OIL PAINTS. And probably CANVAS. and CANVAS STRETCHERS. wtf, NO. DO NOT WANT.

Okay, okay, whatever. I can still do this.

Convocation

순서대로: 오늘 아침 convocation 가기 전에 찍은 모습, 같이 장보러 갈때 Daniel, german student Adrian, 그리고 마지막으로 Andrew.

Convocation 때 John Maeda가 신 말씀 중에서 가장 인상 깊었던게 "everyone at RISD, if you are here, you did not get here all by yourselves. You all had a mentor, or people who supported you. And you should always want to give these gifts back. This is why you are here."

그리고 또 팜플랫에 쓰여저있던 문구 중에서 또 인상이 강했덩것은:

"Only a strong woman can stand up to her fate, for her inner security enables her to endure to the end. This strength shows itself in uncompromising truthfulness (with herself). It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are, without any sort of self-deception or illusion, that a light will develop out of events, by which the path to success may be recognized. Only the woman who goes to meet her fate resolutely is equipped to deal with it adequately. Then she will be able to cross the great water."

맞는 말이다. 운이 나빠서 성공을 못하는 것이아니라, 우리는 다 성공할수있는 기운을 타고 났다. 단지 우리가 부족해서, 고난을 인내를 하지못해서, 또는 끝까지 일을 침착하게 지켜볼수가 없어서 성공이라는 종점에 도달하지 못하는 것일거다. 하느님은 우리가 풀지 못할 문제를 주시지않는다... 맞고 또 맞는 일인것 같다. 나는 catholic으로서 "하는님"이라는 길을 통해가고, buddhist는 nirvana라는 길을 통해가고, 아무리 과학이 최고라고 하는 atheist이라 해도 "우주"나 "divine mathematics" 라는 인간들이 풀지 못하는 미스테리한 어떠한 존재를 통해 길을 가는 것 같다. 여기에 있어서 너무나 감사하다. 세계속에서 내가 일을하고 성공하고 사회에 환원하며, 그리고 또 my life 이기도 때문에 나도 즐겁게! 살아갈수있었으면 좋겠다.

I ordered this a few days ago and forgot to post about it. Sorry ):

From Amazon.com (all books including Speedy shipping) -$50.57
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- The Power of Myth, Joseph Cambell
- Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
- Blankets, Craig Thompson

Money spent: $50.57
Money left: $375.32

The books arrived today, which means I have the entire weekend to try and read ahead.

RISD convocation is on the 8th of Sep. Monday at 11AM.
Classes start on the 10th of Sep. Wednesday at 11:20AM. Strange way to start the semester, right? I'm still excited, however, haha.

소포받았어요~!

International Orientation today at 8am in the painting department building. I didn't need to go since I'm a transfer and I already got my passport and 1-20 copied like, in JUNE but I went anyways because apparently there was supposed to be free breakfast. No breakfast; just coffee and stale cookies. Yuck. I did go because I remembered and thought that maybe Kangsung would be there. He wasn't, but Joy from TCIS was. I said hello and then I left after the first meeting was over because the rest of the orientation was just about getting documents copied and finding out how to get around on campus, and shopping trips. Eh, I don't need any of that. I think maybe I'll go to the International student ice cream get together in the evening maybe since theres free ice cream, and maybe to meet some other international students.

Okay, so, oops.