Present Joys

The semester is finished, so it’s time for Nigel and his teachers, spring 2012 edition! (some teachers not pictured).

• Had a little end-of-semester portfolio review/meeting with Boryana. Conclusion: I am good at value and bad with line. And Boryana is spectacular.
• Ate lunch in the cafeteria for the last time! I had one of those gross cheese quesadillas just for nostalgia’s sake.
• Turned in my final interactive pdf for Worst class of the week. And then I was done with the worst class of the week forever.
• Didn’t have any American lit class all week. Instead, I just spent time working on my final project.
• Turned in my 19th century art history final (two essays) and spent the rest of my tuesday lunch break studying History of fashion notes with Amanda.
• Had a glorious team class pizza party with M-Tabs. She brought Granville-made pizza, soda, and circus peanuts. We watched the movie Jumanji. We gave her a framed photo and she loved it. It was altogether one of the best things ever.
• Went to History of fashion class and took a final exam. Our teacher brought us scones from Panera.
• Went into my Illustration class at 12:30pm and picked up my work and said my goodbyes.
• Had a very late wednesday lunch with Amanda, Jason, and Michelle at the Brown Bag Deli. I had a delicious sandwich with braunschweiger.
• Went out to lunch on thursday with my 19th century art history teacher and her husband and some other class friends. We went to El Arepazol on Pearl Alley and had a lovely time. Dana drove all of us and I rode in the cargo area in the back of her Acura.
• Showed up for Mr. Burleigh’s class, which actually consisted of milling around on the third floor of Crane to look at the walls and say goodbye to everyone. Mr. Burleigh was wearing a tool belt.
• Walked with Colleen several blocks to the bank so she could pay me for our board game. It was a very nice sort of postmortem. And then we were done.

I made these two posters as a final project for my American lit class. They are posters celebrating the imaginary re-publication of two of Flannery O’Connor’s books: A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories and The Violent Bear it Away. I chose to make these instead of writing a final paper because I’m sick of writing; unexpectedly, I’m pretty happy with the way these turned out. I was going to do a third poster for O’Connor’s first novel Wise Blood but I ran out of time. Maybe I’ll come back to this project later!

• Had the third and final crit of my figure drawing class with Boryana. I turned in three pieces that I’m pretty proud of. We drank apple juice and ate cookies and had a good time.
• Went up to the fourth floor of AMF to visit Jason Clary (my freshman painting teacher), who was just as kind and wonderful as ever.
• Had an off-site friendship lunch at The Warehouse Café, which is a cute little lunch place within walking distance from campus.
• Went to visit my friend Carolyn in her millinery class and got to meet the teacher. I’m hoping this will pay dividends for me later!
• Put the finishing touches on our board game; Met with my Kelsey and John for a last-minute team meeting.
• Finished watching Vertigo in my American lit class on tuesday morning. And then I was done…
• Had the last lecture of my 19th century art history class, which basically consisted of a ton of Rodin’s sculptures. It is sad to see it come to an end.
• Had our game-playing day in team class! M-Tabs brought in candy for us to eat, and we played board games and filled out little questionnaires. Tons of fun.
• Watched student presentations in my History of fashion class. Worked on my new fair isle sweater the whole time. It was quite a nice time.
• Did the usual thing in Illustration class, except this week our teacher brought in chocolate-chip-cookie bars and chips and salsa for us to eat! I didn’t really do illustration work in class; instead, I agonized over my finals for Burleigh.
• Spent all wednesday night doing more work on finals for Burleigh, despite the fact that they were due less than 24 hours later. This is not something I typically do, and it stressed me out a lot.
• Had a very cursory “private meeting” with my American lit teacher regarding my final project, which I have yet to begin and which is due next thursday.
• Printed, mounted, and wrapped my finals for Burleigh during my lunch break on thursday morning. I did all of this in the little couch area in Kinney where literally every other person at CCAD also had to print at the last minute.
• Ran into my 19th-century teacher and Ian and Dorian on the quad and hung out with them for a while, which was really fun.
• Had one last knit-n-crit with Burleigh. Finals turned out okay after all.
• Took a bunch of photos with teachers, which I will definitely share later!

This is a series of three small (7.5 in. × 5 in. each) drawings I made as homework for my figure drawing class this semester.