It has been a few days since I have started my online class of Art 1010 and so far, It hasn’t been to bad. I have received the vocabulary list and have been going over it, along with reviewing all my assignments that are expected out of me. Due to work and other school obligations, the meeting times for Second Life will be hard to jungle, but I know I can do it. I have always liked writing in blogs and journals, so I am hoping this will be one project that comes fairly easy to me. I just let my fingers run around the keyboard while my mind wanders around all these thoughts about art, projects, and all of my crazy opinions on what I think about this kind of stuff.
When I do have time to get on Second Life, It has been pretty confusing and I am not sure really where to go when I am able to go to class meetings. There is a lot of buttons and options to click. I understand you are able to make just about anything in the virtual reality, which really baffles me. I have walked around and looked at several pieces of artwork around the virtual campus, which I like. I have seen only a couple people wandering around the campus, which I don’t think are my classmates due to the fact that their user names are either a bunch of random numbers or some foreign language. It makes me wonder how they end up at the virtual campus and what they think of all of it. Do they know what all this stuff is for? It’s pretty interesting…
I will be ending my post with two pictures of one of my favorite artists, Alma Lee. Her artwork really stands out to me because of the strong emphasis of making sure all her artwork is always fun and exciting. The bright colors flow throughout the artwork giving the pieces such strong visual weight. She usually draws animals and flowers, but once in a while you can catch her drawing simple objects such as dishes or shoes. Its unbelievable to me that her preferred medium she works with is colored pencils. I would love to own an original piece by her someday.
The right picture is “Gerbera Paisley” and the left picture is “Beezy Bot Kitty” both created by Alma Lee using colored pencils.