We learned how to do perspectives yesterday at the drawing course after the critiques. These are telephone poles going off in to the horizon. It is funny how our eyes adjust to see things. Anyways, I like perspectives because it is very geometrical and I am a math guy so I dig proportions, angles, and such maters. It feels like I am using my major from college.
This was during the critique of all the student's still life charcoal drawings. I used some vine and compressed charcoal. Drawing is a lot different from painting. Like A LOT different. The medium is pretty tricky. I like the class. The teacher is pretty good and there are a lot of talented folks. It is good to learn from different artists.
I really slow day for 365. Wow, this was really blah of me to take picture of this, but this was I was feeling at the time. Maybe I was going bananas that the week was not over yet. Such is life I guess. Oh wells.
I had dinner with a friend tonight, after the drawing class. I was so lethargic and unenergetic before this meal. This was at Amarin in Mountain View, CA. This was super yummy. I liked this a lot. I forget how much I like Thai food. I was feeling very energetic after this meal. I haven't had it much in the last 9-10 month or so. Anyways, good company + good food = a happy Jonathan.
Amarin Yelp:
www.yelp.com/biz/amarin-thai-cuisine-2-mountain-view
These were some pretty good cupcakes with strawberries on top. Also this we talked about Joshua in the study. How the Israelites used 12 rocks from the Jordan river to remind them of God leading them from a lost state to a found state. Anyways, I have been talking about goals lately and I mentioned to the group that I had over 300 goals since I was 18. It started as an assignment in my religion course in my senior year in high school. They were pretty astonished. I am too I guess, but its a reminder of what things I dreamed of when I was 18 and what I am still dreaming of when I turn 30. So I encouraged people in the group to generate 150 goals in their lives. The thing I learned from the 300 goals is that not every goal will be attained. Like my accomplished rate is like 8-10%. That's pretty low, but I would have to say very realistic. The whole point of the exercise is to write some of the wild ideas down somewhere as a remembrance of dreams, expectations, and events you want to happen. The really important lesson is that not all goals will be achieved. It's very counter-intuitive. The assignment was very interesting because the first 3 goals were
-Deny yourself
-Take up your own cross
-Follow Christ
These are pretty damn lofty goals. These are daily goals for life. Anyways the following describes some of my accomplished goals and some of my goals still on my TODO list.
Accomplished goals:
go to college, get a degree
visit Brazil
visit Greece
visit Italy
visit Turkey
learn Italian
learn Portugues
learn how to say "You are the most beautiful woman in the world" in 10 languages
TODO goals still in the queue:
visit Africa
visit China
visit Japan
learn Chinese
learn Japanese
skydive
bunjee
visit all 50 states
meet a president of the US
write a commencement speech
marry the most beautiful woman in the world (gotta think big right?)
So now I want to write 200 more goals so that I want to have roughly 500 goals in my life. But seriously, I am not goal oriented, I am just Asian.
I asked crustydolphin aka Charlie if I could paint one of her photos as a summer art project. The photo I am painting is called Princess Leia. Charlie is an awesome photographer from London, England. She is super talented, super nice, really purty, and more importantly she graciously accepted my offer to paint her photo. She is also a beast in Scrabulous (FB application) She scored 400 points, I only managed to get 170.
Princess Leia by crustydolphin
flickr.com/photos/crustydolphin/2401092507/
My brother-in-law, nephew, and I watched the San Jose Earthquakes vs. the Colorado Rapids today. The game was played at my alma mater in Buck Saw Stadium in Santa Clara University. It is a bit weird, because I worked in the athletic department during my school days. My work-study job was to sell tickets during soccer, baseball, volleyball, and basketball games at Santa Clara University. So it reminded me totally of Men's and Women's soccer games at SCU. Those were pretty fun times. I used to get free hot dogs and drinks after half time from our bosses and we were able to see games for free. Pretty good college gig right?
This lovely little girl was staring at my camera, so I decided to take her picture. She has the don't you know I am fabulous look. It was an entertaining game. I was able to take a photo of the Earthquakes' goal off a header. It was too bad, because Colorado scored like 8 minutes later off a nice header. But the Earthquakes coach got hella mad because he thought the player was offsides. So the referee kicked the coach out of the game for arguing. It got a bit chippy after that point. But it is good to see soccer thriving in the Bay Area. Lots of families, lots of fans, lots of food, lots of beer.
Earthquakes goal:
flickr.com/photos/jmoisesreyes/2663482690
So I have to thank Kathy, the owner of Koji Sake Lounge in San Jose, CA for the opportunity to showcase my art work at her establishment. I am very thankful to her support of local artists. She picked the 5 to show and I think they all look great in the space. Also a lot of friends stopped by to support. Thank you all. It was a very fun night and I am very happy that people can get to appreciate and enjoy the artwork I have done the past 4 years. I think my next step is to see some of these art pieces at a gallery somewhere in SF, LA, and/or SD. If any of you flickrites know any gallery peoples please do let me know. I probably have to organize a portfolio or something.
Koji Sake Lounge:
www.kojisakelounge.com/
TODO:
-get a website up (It's ironic for a web 2.0 guy I don't have one)
-create a portfolio of my art work
-market myself better
-work with some of my photographer friends and take photos of my art work
-sell some pieces to recoup some of the negative cash flow :(
I am taking a drawing course at Foothill College this summer. I am having a blast with this class. I am still going to take the painting class in the fall, but I figure I want to try drawing out. The lesson today was about negative and positive spaces. Sorry about it being blurry. The point and shoot focused on the cone in front not the sphere. Oh wells.
