I've Worked so Much This Week!

I am a very busy girl with very little time on my hands. What was REALLY my work of the week was this

These are the awesome colored poles that are in the Smith Center Park.

 I have spent a ton of time this week preparing for this day and the ultimate climax. The Performance of "The Lamb of God" at the Smith Center, with Rob Gardener, the composer, in the audience with us. There were times this week when I didn't go home or rest from 5:50 in the morning until 9:30 at night (both the beginning and end, coincidentally, occurring in the same building). This was a major time commitment, and requires more time to document it than I have right now. So the post about "The Lamb of God," will have to be put off for another time. Now I am just trying to keep up with my goal. My "Work of the Week."

This is TOTALLY cheating.

Although I did MOST of it this week, I didn't start it this week... and it isn't even finished yet.

This is my "tiger" project, for Bonanza's annual contest. They have a bunch of stupid new rules, creating a size requirement, and mandating that entries must be in "Landscape Format" (sideways)

My art teacher is.... inadequate. As are her supplies. The majority of the paint that she has is "tempera" which is "ideal for Finger/sponge painting" and "use on posters." In other words, it is crap. She has about 28 bottles of this stuff in White alone, and a bunch of others in weird colors. But no black. I managed to find acrylic (an acceptable type) paint in the colors of red, yellow, blue, and brown. No white and no black. I attempted to use the tempera white with the acrylic blue for the sky and wanted to scream. It barely changed the color, and flaked off at the edges when it dried. Like I said. Tempera is crap. My art teacher doesn't seem to know the difference between the two types of paints, so I couldn't appeal to her to get a better white, but I could at least alert her to the fact that there was NO black paint. Period. Her response was,

"Yes. I remember that now.... I'll just run to the dollar store after school and pick some up."

The dollar store? I groaned inwardly. Clearly, my art teacher wasn't going to be any help.

And then, miracles of miracles, I found two tiny tubes of black and white ACRYLIC paint while I was ransacking the supplies closet. And so, I painted this.   

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From a picture I found in this National Geographic.

And now. I have finished a mini-rant (which I didn't even know I had in me), accomplished my goal, and outlined a future blog. Now I am done.