<p>michaelangelina,
if you can find some kind of way to clear coat it. find some transparent paper and coat it with an acrylic gel medium or something. though i'm not sure how the acrylic will take to water base oils, and you'd be covering the final layer of your piece. it might be a bad idea. but, i've done some weird stuff before with mod podge and it dries quickly.</p>
<p>If you take risks with the drying process, at the very least take photos beforehand and you can plead for mercy if things go awry. Good luck with this.</p>
<p>michaelangelina - haha. As of 11:27AM, I am done with 4 questions. I'm hell-bent on finishing though. I have one more drawing, and I'm filming a 2 minute short (which will take, like 1 hour to shoot, and 1/2 hour to edit). So, I think it's all about time management for me. All the ideas are in my head, I just need to produce at an über quality rapid rate. </p>
<p>This pretty much sums up what my inner monologue in my head is saying: </p>
<p>"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"</p>
<p>lol half sorry---i'm just beginning number six...but i still have all essays.....</p>
<p>i created a little tent in my basement with a plastic sheet and put a heater inside...it seems like my painting is actually starting to dry (praise lord) and my mother just purchased so sort of vellum clear coat that is supposed to enhance color but more importantly dry quickly...do you think they would disqualify me if the painting is just a little bit tacky?</p>
<p>are you people dropping your stuff off tommorow?</p>
<p>michealangelina-
try a fast drying medium- thats what i did with the same problem good luck :-)</p>
<p>thank God i just finished!! im in israel right now and i had to leave time for it to get to america! whoa!! good luck to u all on finishing!it is the most amazing feeling once u dofinish and just knowing that should motivate u all to do ur best and finish in time. check back in once u all finish! (after u get some sleep)</p>
<p>ah! i'm inexpressibly jealous of you!!</p>
<p>just curious...how confident are you in ur work? and are any of ur pieces like "sketchy"....in other words did you spend the same amount of time on each piece or did you try and highlight ur ability to do loose as well as intricate?</p>
<p>I did both. But I focused really hard on my sketchbook, because that is the next highest thing they look for after the hometest. then I think it goes: support material, grades</p>
<p>yeah i've been working on my sketchbook for a long time....i'm kinda sorry i have to part with it - i sorta live in it.....
also....question...you know how we have to include at least 5 additional pieces of original artwork.....did you include more than five? how many? is this a "the more the merrier" instance or should i be extra careful about what i include?</p>
<p>ok last question now.....
do you think it's ok if i drop off one of my recs at the office of admission myself?</p>
<p>(i think this is going to be an all nighter)</p>
<p>Today I brought my envelope to the post office. rather, I made my parents bring it over for me because I really didn't want to look at it for another second. I think my first words when it was finally sealed up were, 'Get it away from me now.'</p>
<p>Eleven people for early decision? Good for us, yes, but very. very. frightening.</p>
<p>I mean that's picky. </p>
<p>I didn't do any painting for the hometest because I knew I'd be doing this at the last minute and it would never dry. I just recently had a problem with a painting I was foolishly determined to send to the scholastic art contest. it barely, barely dried in time, was still unfinished, and caused various people in the art department trouble. I didn't want to go through that kind of mess again. I have a lot of paintings in my portfolio anyway.</p>
<p>So you say that they look most at the home test, then the support materials? Where do you think the slide portfolio factors in? That's really where my best things are.. hm. I think the first hometest thing I did was decent, but the rest, I don't know. I had a good thing going for the word etymology one, it was a clay tablet in a box but I remebered, CLAY, you IDIOT! Clay breaks! My word is 'clandestine' and I had little drawings rolled and crinkled into little holes with lids and.. this makes no sense, I know, I'll have to post a picture of it.. I thought it would be okay because it was in a box but clay is still breakable. So I ended up putting the little drawings inside this funny little container (that was supposed to be glued into the tablet, because I made the tablet -for- it). It's kind of a sad version of my original idea. I was going to take a picture, but then I remembered that the directions said that you can only send original materials..</p>
<p>I did one drawing this morning in about two hours, it was.. ah, so-so. crap.</p>
<p>hey! you all! I will NOT be seein' you at Cooper Union this fall! I am smiling incredulously to myself now! I did all that work and I really think I have a nothing chance. This whole thing is just INSANE! Do you not agree?!</p>
<p>Someone asked about the questionnaire.. mine turned out to be three or four pages long. Most of the answers were a couple of paragraphs. I'm not sure what they expected but probably something detailed, insightful..</p>
<p>I think I'm going to have to get used to the fact that I will have giant debts hanging over me for twenty years after college.</p>
<p>hey, I was thinking.. now that we're all about done with this (will be tomorrow morning anyway) I'm curious about what all of your art looks like. do any of you have online art sites, anything like that? hope this doesn't seem nosy.</p>
<p>O MY GOODNESSSSS!!!! so i was freaking out that i wasn't going to finish because i was midway through six inches ...six feet and then i realized that i have i drawing that i love that FITS INTO the envelope and applies to the question!!!!!!!!!!! i honestly don't think i've ever been so happy before...this means I"M FINISHED!!! hell month is officially over!</p>
<p>i think i'm moderatley satisfied w. my stuff....but i noticed that as a progressed through the test my standards of good slowly decreased ....ah heck i'm finished with the cooper union home test.... and prob cooper in general cuz i will never get in either weile....but whatever....at least i can say i gave it a fair shot</p>
<p>but we def have to discuss our ideas and answers tommorow</p>
<p>haah. it really WAS hellish. I saw my friends for the first time in four weeks.. this has been the last weekend I spend shut up in my house!</p>
<p>angelina - i love when that sort of thing happens, hah! I actually found a photo that worked for 'spacial boundry.' it is old but I'd always kind of liked it, and out of sheer luck it fit the requirement perfectly.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> I had major problems with mine. major. I looked in my bookbag today, and guess what I found? Hometest Q# 6. </p>
<p>I'm really disappointed in myself. I'll post a link to my stuff soon.</p>
<p>ouch /;....if it makes you feel any better i really messed up my painting by putting a glaze over it when it was still a bit wet</p>
<p>but u know what it's over now and even without our mistakes we only had a 5 percent chance at acceptance...so it's not like anyone had a great shot anyways</p>
<p>but whenever all the cooper people are around i think we should discuss our solutions...i'm curious to hear what other people didi</p>
<p>Well, for the boundaries of light ... question, I did it on religion. </p>
<p>I've seen some peoples take on it, meaning they just drew or painted a room with swell lighting. </p>
<p>I knew Cooper pushes for conceptual, so I went all out and took a chance.</p>
<p>omg , halfsorry, i feel horrible for u, did u call to explain what happenned?</p>
<p>btw, did anyone do full essays for the questionnaire?</p>
<p>i didn't do full essays i pretty much i had one to three short paragraphs for each essay question....for the boundaries of light...i did racism...i depicted a bus (you know like the rosa park scenerio) and had a sign that said "light skined up front...dark skinned in the back" or somethign to that nature...it might be too far fetched but o well</p>
<p>yeah, very sorry about how it went for you too, halfsorry..</p>
<p>This was one of those things that just wears you down.. you know about it in advance, visualize yourself doing something really good, being one of the people to really knock it down, but by the time it comes things just fall apart. I dunno - that's what happened to me, to some extent. I did all the assignments right after I'd finished my RISD drawings and, man, I was burned out when I started.. my light boundry and tactical and etymology ones turned out kind of crap.. I really only liked two of them.</p>
<p>anyway, the first one I did was the least crappy because I wasn't so sick of it all yet, it was the viewpoint of an animal one. I did gorilla.. I drew myself sitting cross-legged with a stupid/flippant/incredulous expression on my face, and all these insane facts about gorillas, all the Latin names and different classifications and trivial crap about their teeth.. also some weird things like that the first man who saw them thought they were 'a tribe of hairy women,' were written loosely emulating from the head, following the form, etc.. (I like using writing as part of the picture, like I don't know, basquiat? not really, but.. sort of like: <a href="http://cyberconversations.free.fr/images/basquiat.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://cyberconversations.free.fr/images/basquiat.jpg</a> ) i had just finished reading Grendel by John Gardner and there was a bit in it.. about.. (if you've read it it's a line spoken by the nihilist dragon, hah) man's inane classifications (and all that etc. I can't remember) it ends with 'down, and down, and down.' which parallels the .. ahh.. losing track of thought.. oh, the rediculous classifications of gorilla types. SO ANYWAY, it was about how stupid I would look from the viewpoint of the gorilla. I wrote the Gardner quote on beneath gorilla facts. ..basically it's a overdone theme but I tried to take a new look at it through the literary reference, I don't know. John Gardner is my favorite author.</p>
<p>okay. jesus.. that was too much information, but. </p>
<p>so what animals did you all do and what were your themes for this project?</p>
<p>hey. Yeah. thanks. I think I'm an eternal optimistic person, because I'm in the works for something. (I won't say what, but the wheels are turning in my head.) I mean, yeah, I was depressed about it, and actually cried during Everybody Loves Raymond (why? I don't know. I think laughter and crying are two emotions that are quite similar .... I'm getting off topic) ...anyways ... I did mine on a swan. "The ugly duckling sort of thing"? ... sort of ... Well, I made mine to where me and everyone (I did more people in the background) are face to face with a swan, and the swan see's the inherent goodness/beauty/person we can or will be, in everybody ... I don't know how to desrcibe it really ... and everything I just wrote doesn't make any sense (I just re-read it. It's a mess) ... whoo.</p>