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Day 1: The Water Orb

May 10

Day 1

    This morning was the first day of senior project, and I have to say that I am already enjoying it. I had a lazy start to my morning but pretty quickly got my sketchbook, pens and pencils, computer, and a snack together in a bag, and went out the door. My favorite spot on campus is right outside the lower door to the library. There are these beautiful stone benches that are surrounded by beautiful trees and flowers and it looks out over the pond toward the rest of the campus. I decided I would start the first day of my project sitting in my favorite spot. I began with making a list of all of the aspects of proctor that I would like to incorporate into my painting. As I made my list, I found it easy to think of all of the things that make up Proctor, but I found it hard to think of ways to show them through a painting.
    I thought I would try and do some sketches to figure out how I wanted the main focal point of my painting to look. For my senior project, I am doing an oil painting that relates to a saying that my family has as well as Proctor. My family has a saying that your life is a giant water orb and every bad experience is just one tiny drop being added to it so it won’t last forever and even though it seems awful right now, it only lasts for a short time, and every good experience is a small drop in your water orb so enjoy it. For my project, I wanted to bring that to life with the proctor water orb that shows all of the experiences students have here. 
    I came up with many ways to sketch the water orb. Initially, I didn’t know if I wanted it to look like a water drop or just a circle, so I sketched some of both. I ended up liking the circular sketches much better so I did a bunch of them and did some with color as well. After doing those sketches, I did some of the experiences that I wanted to use in the painting. 

    Later in the afternoon, I went to the studio to work with Corby. He taught me how to cut the wood for the canvas and glue it together. That was all I did today and tomorrow I will get started with painting.  

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