grace m
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The last two weeks or so we have worked to prepare for our oil paintings. Last week, Grace and I finally managed to fix our composition and begin drawing. The charcoal I used was too dark and loose so some of it bled into the paint while I was working on the grisaille layer. This made it hard to paint the correct values, especially since I was already putting the paint on too thickly. I think I figured it out some though, so hopefully this week goes better.

The last two weeks, we've been working on a sculpture project with the prompt "the whole is greater than its parts". My sculpture is going to resemble a seagull (or raven, which I think may fit with some of my ideas better) with a head and wings made of clay and a body of wood. Last week, I started working on shaping the head and beak out of clay. I've been working on refining the head and beak and connecting the two this week, and I also began modeling the wings out of clay

To be honest, while making this work, it did take me a bit to get started on it. I initially struggled with the question of how to fill all the space and what to fill it with. Even though I had my photo and everything, so realistically it should have been easy to do, I still struggled. This uncertainty caused some trouble when working on the shirt and hair, because they were more dense and weren't similar to what the reference artist drawing wore. The worst part, though, was