<p>Ok, so I guess I can butt in and introduce myself now, I'm Jennie.</p>
<p>Hello, Jennie. I hope you love the 60-second posting rule as much as I do. Wink.</p>
<p>oh yeah.....just love it....</p>
<p>so.......who else spends time that should be spent on work reading the CC boards and the Pton website? oh, me!! lol</p>
<p>I think all of us do. Well, at least I do...I probably shouldn't speak for everyone else...</p>
<p>sigh.....yeah, I should really be working......in the off chance that I get in, I don't wanna have my acceptance revoked for failing art history......</p>
<p>Kebree- I'm saying this in the nicest possible tone...</p>
<p>Did you include those Orlando Bloom/Elijah Wood sketches, because they remind me of people in the mall who sell "Aaliyah RIP" airbrush things.</p>
<p>The rest is amazing!</p>
<p>haha, I did, yes...the copies were better for the disk I sent, though. I re-scanned them and they don't look as "airbrushed". I've done a lot of original drawing portraits, but 6 of them are in in England, 2 of them are in Germany, and the most of the rest weren't available for scanning, either =(
The oils/watercolors were the main thing, though.</p>
<p>Plus, at least the people at Princeton know I'll be able to get a job over the summer, even if it is "selling Aaliyah R.I.P. pics in the mall," lol...that was classic, ilcapo =)</p>
<p>I love the little girl portrait and then the other one that I can't remember but involves oysters.</p>
<p>Such high quality! I feel as though you mastered the art already.</p>
<p>Now my greatest wish for you, my dear friend is to start using your MIND to draw/paint instead of your EYE!</p>
<p>I know you can do it....and your creativity will surely shine through.</p>
<p>Oooh I just found a perfect example: Island Off Parga - BRILLIANT! ah yes I love that one!</p>
<p>I'm in an odd mood.</p>
<p>As in abstract work?</p>
<p>Haha, how do you like the Princeton ones? That was most def. a planned thing...</p>
<p>Also - I'd like everyone here to take note that I live in NY, and it is thus 1:34 AM and I am still on this board.</p>
<p>Luckily, election day = no school - but still!</p>
<p>Well yes abstract is a nice term - though perhaps too "Black Streak on Canvas Number 5"</p>
<p>I just mean, if you sit down in Florence and start painting, I want you to paint in a way that makes your final product more visually appealing than my photograph. Don't paint as if someone is going to come up to you and offer you 10 euros for an 8 x 10 watercolor of the Ponte Vecchio.</p>
<p>Try painting with your eyes closed please.</p>
<p>Oh, okay, so more painterly.</p>
<p>lol at the "Black Streak" comment...reminds me of being in the MFA in Boston and seeing a blank canvas with a single black brushstroke titled "Untitled". I'm not exactly sure how much creativity that required....</p>
<p>One thing, though...most of these paintings are between 11" x 14" and 30" x 40", so when they are downsized they can take on an overly detailed look that they don't have their actual size. (You may have liked the Parga one because it's 8" x 10" and less compacted-looking, for instance.) Still, some of them (namely the Wakehurst Place one) are too photographic-looking in a bad way. Most of those are the ones from 3+ years ago though...my style's "evolved," yay.</p>
<p>I don't know that I could paint w/ my eyes closed, or do anything extremely abstract. I've decided not to make stylistic originality my main goal b/c it is nearly impossible to come up with something both entirely beautiful and entirely original (style-wise). Sargent, whom I adore, was greatly influenced by Carolus-Duran and Velasquez. Stylistic influences are not such a bad thing.
But I do agree--it is important to have a painterly quality to a work...</p>
<p>bump, as if this thread needed one</p>
<p>HELP GUYS!!! I feel like i'm becoming obsessed!! I sent my app in last week, and not a day has gone by without my re-reading it, be it to double-check spelling in my essays, review my activity list....Plus i've never reviewed the Princeton viewbook AND catalog in as much depth as i have these last 5 days!! I can't stop thinking about the whole thing, and i'm always daydreaming about watching an official Pton Performance, or taking a C.Writing class with E.White!!! --->that was both releiving and revealing to post!! i feel better already :D
Tell me i'm not the only lunatic around here....and if i am, any tips/suggestions would be really appreciated :)</p>
<p>Haha I know what you mean, I check the dailyprincetonian.com compulsively. Usually to make myself feel better I get some endorphins going with chocolate - the pre-Princeton 15!</p>
<p>I <3 dailyprincetonian.com. I'll usually read it twice a day, heh.</p>