Pregnant Picture

So here's a picture of my pregnant tummy that Jason took yesterday...We have a doctor's appt. tomorrow so hopefully everything is going well. School starts next week so the time's probably going to fly by pretty quick and our little guy will be here before we know it! Yay!!!

some art from last semester...

These are a couple of ink drawings and sculptures from this last semester. The drawings were a challenge for me cause they all had to be done from love without a whole lot of time or sketching. I'd only done one ink drawing before (at bottom of post) and it was from a picture so it was definitely a growing experience learning to put 3-D objects I'm looking at onto a 2D piece of paper. But here are some of the ones that I liked.

I really like this one i did it from the Winnie the pooh blanket Chris & Belle gave us for the crib and a little sleeper outfit mom gave us for our baby.


This one was really fun cause it didn't have too much detail (: It's just a drawing of a picture I painted, a fake sunflower, my wooden paint palette and a paintbrush. I enjoyed it alot cause I played around with dry brush (dipping a dry brush in indian ink and blotting it out , then trying to draw with it-a fun technique but prone to cause disaster) for the first time (on the flower painting part) and it actually worked ok! It was really fun.

In my sculpture class one of my projects was to sculpt a family crest out of clay so I could make a mold of it. Here's the clay before I made the mold from it, it's shiny cause I sprayed it with mold release. I don't have a picture of the painted mold I made cause I accidentally left it in my sculpture room. We'll see if it's still there when I get back to Idaho...:(

Another assignment was to sculpt a piece of fruit and make it into something useful. I decided to attempt a pineapple cookie jar. It took SO much longer than I thought it would to do all the detail, cause I made it about 16" tall. Next time i'll make it a mini cookie jar. (: This is a picture of it before it was fired and painted. Again I accidentally left all my sculptures in my locker at class so we'll see if there still there when I get back and maybe I'll post a picture of all my completed projects.

Again another ink drawing. The requirements for the class were to use things from around the house and arrange them, then draw them from life on a 2' x 3' piece of paper. The hardest part of each assignment was actually finding the stupid objects that would look good together!!! I hate being a perfectionist about things! It about drove Jason insane because every time he would come home I would have to tell him not to sit on the couch or touch stuff in the kitchen cause I was drawing what actually looked like a pile of junk.

With this one I was going for the "I cook for you because I love you" idea. Thus the apron, cook books, apple, and cooking board. You can't tell very much of the detail from the picture but I learned I really enjoy drawing wood texture on the cutting board. I never thought I liked drawing with pen cause it was so permanent, but I actually learned to love it finally after having to do like 9 large assignments in it.


Those are a few of the things I had on my camera and probably more than you wanted to see, but just an idea of some of the things I've been doing and learning my first semester as an Art major.
Like I mentioned above this was the first Ink drawing I'd ever done, and I got to do it with an old fashioned ink pen and ink well. It was pretty fun cause I could get really detailed with it. And it was a bit easier than the others cause I just did it from pictures of animals, instead of the real things. (:

More Sewing

I finished sewing my blessing dress the week before finals! (don't worry, it's not for our little boy it was required in my sewing class)

Updates!

Life has been pretty crazy the last month trying to finish up the semester, move across town, travel around 3 states for a Peterson Family Reunion, and finally coming to AZ to see our families. It's been fun though!
So we did end up passing all of our classes (woohoo) and got moved into our new apartment. We were SO ready to move! This place is about the same distance from campus, right across the street from a beautiful park, and has a bedroom big enough for our king bed AND the crib...and it's less expensive! Yay!!!
While in the process of taking finals, and moving, we were attempting to go to as much of the Peterson Family Reunion as possible. We ditched finals on Tuesday and drove to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where we got to stay in a HUGE cabin with his family and go white water rafting. I'd been so scared to try this since I was like 7 months pregnant, but it was a blast!!! I wish I would have remembered to take my camera! Later that day we just hung around Jackson Hole and saw some of the sights. Here's a picture of the sunset from the cabin we stayed at. It was so nice to have a break during stressful finals week!

The next morning we got up at 4am to drive back to Rexburg and finish finals. His family came later that afternoon to help us move all the heavy stuff into our apartment and we were able to leave the next morning for Lagoon in Utah!
Lagoon was such a blast! I'd never been there, and hope to get to go back some day when I can actually go on the rides and not worry about being pregnant. We had alot of fun though.

The last few weeks we've been in Arizona spending time with our families and earning a little money at the Gardner's pizza store and tiling my parent's back porch.

BEFORE

AFTER

We have one week left in Jo City then we're headed back home so I can finally set up the crib! I'm so excited to finish unpacking and have a little time to relax before classes start again.