Progress

Another peak at this painting that is slowing coming along. Once it's finished, I'll take a full picture of it!

Painting Air

While going through my email this morning, I saw an email about an exhibition opening at RISD by the artist Spencer Finch. The image above immediately caught my attention (without it, I probably would have deleted the email without reading it all). But I had to find out more about this piece! The press release explains Finch's installation in detail:

"The work of Impressionist painter Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) serves as the aesthetic touchstone for both parts of the exhibition, and even informed its title. Painting Air comes from a statement Monet made in 1895: “I want to paint the air… and that is nothing short of impossible.” Finch’s new installation, Painting Air (2012), created for the exhibition, seeks to capture the movement and reflection the artist observed in a recent visit to Monet’s water garden in Giverny. For both Finch (RISD MFA ’89) and Monet, the pond at Giverny served as a laboratory in which they merge the experience of nature with the art-making process. Finch evokes his experience by suspending more than 100 transparent and highly reflective glass panels, surrounded by an expansive, 150-linear-foot mural comprised of 34 colors. Light and color shift across the surfaces of the gently swaying panels, reflecting the painting and the movements of visitors, and transforming viewers’ perspectives from one moment to the next."
Inspired by Monet and the pond at Giverny?! Capturing the shifts in light and color on huge hanging panels?! So cool. I'm in love.

Inspired (by sunsets)

This is what I'm working on today.

Today

Morning & lunch. Moments of relaxation and solitude mixed into a chaotic day at work. Not your typical lazy Sunday, but I'll take what I can get.

Getting there

Each sunset brings me closer to spring. And summer. And I could not be more excited!!

Happy Birthday

Happy 18th birthday to my littlest sister! I can't believe you're already all grown up and legal. Way to make me feel old. <3

Lunch Break

Morgan and I, posted up in a quiet corner of Panera, our favorite lunch spot, eating soup and going over our update papers for tomorrow. Perfection on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

Chevron

A little watercolor doodling on my day off.

Friday Night

The perfect Friday night with myself. Also, one of my favorite parts about Valentine's day?! That after the 14th, Valentine's day candy gets marked down and I can buy a bag of Sweethearts for $1!

Winter Sunset

To the winter sun that sits so low in the sky, that causes slanted cool winter light, that never really feels warm, and sinks behind the horizon far too early in the afternoon; you create the most colorful, breath-taking, beautiful sunsets. But I'm so ready for you to become the spring/summer sun that I love the most.

Valentine's Day

Just a couple pictures of some sweet treats from the past few days.

1. A cute little message to make me smile in the morning. Thanks Starbucks.
2. Watercolors at 2am
3. My new pink/red pants and cupcakes for Valentine's day!
4. The watercolor papers transformed into simple valentines

Light & Shadows

A beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon in the food court. Light and the shadows it creates have always intrigued me, but ever since an architectural history class I took a couple years ago, I can't help but notice the play of light and dark and how it can completely transform a space/building. Thank you, Henry Matthews.

Chaos

Floorset madness. All week. At this point, I'm not even sure who I am or what my name is, let alone the day or time.

Early Morning Light

The way the light falls in the early morning always reminds me of Rome (and all of those rushed crazy mornings of running down the 7 flights of stairs, pushing open that heavy wooden door, and bursting out into the chaotic Campo and that glorious Roman morning light). Even though it's not ancient ruins or the Pantheon, I had to stop and capture the light on this building as I was walking in to work early Friday morning.

Breathtaking

I love clouds. I think they are magical; that in a moment, with a tiny gust of wind or shift of light, they can change and look completely different. I'm constantly inspired by clouds and whenever I go outside, I find myself looking up to the sky. That's why tonight, as I stumbled outside in a post-work daze, and I saw the sky filled with dense, dark clouds consuming the last of the daylight, I was the girl in the Target parking lot taking pictures on her phone.

Today...

...was just one of those days (where two cups of coffee still doesn't seem like enough).