Our first day of Christmas break.

Ever since I was in high school I have cherished these nights of freedom. Freedom from homework. Freedom from stress. Freedom from plans. When I have moments like these there is a part of my brain that sends me straight back to a summer night in highschool. A night where everyone has gone to bed and I sit in my room writing or reading knowing that I don't have to wake up and go to school or work the next day. Nights like those are rare as you get older. I am fortunate enough to have that this evening. One of my favorite things is a night before a weekend or a day free of plans. Anyway, today was just such a day. Church was actually cancelled today because of snow. Yes, if you haven't heard yet, it snowed today in Oregon. Getting to sleep in this morning was the best gift ever after a 4 hour nights sleep on friday night (due to painting until 1:30 am and waking up at 6am to continue painting before class). So, Wes and I slept in this morning and woke up to a very pleasant surprise. A blanket of snow. Pretty amazing first day of Christmas break don't you think? So, today Wes went to work while I went to Palios. It's been a really great relaxing snow day for me and the super exciting thing is that I get tomorrow off. Good news also, our hard work payed off and Wes and I both got A's in our painting class. We cannot wait for Christmas next week to be with our families and celebrate. So, this morning I got my jacket and rain boots on and stepped outside for some pictures...

Our car....


Our Front door...

Our door mat....




And, I took pictures this evening of the paintings we've spent so much time on that we turned in yesterday....


This first assignment was a painting of a collage. Meaning that we had to create an 8 x 10 collage from magazine clippings on paper and then create a grid on a 24 x 30 canvas and scale it over.

This is mine...



This is Wes'....

The second assignment was to paint an interpretation of music. We had to pick a song and paint whatever our imagination led us to...

This is Wes' to a radiohead song...


This is mine, inspired by Eleanor Rigby. Though, I can't explain to you how I got to this picture or what it means. I struggled with this assignment because we were told to not paint the song literally. If I had had more time to paint I would have given more detail to the back ground and to the man. I dont' like that his skin color looks so similar to the backgroung color...


The third assignment was to actually make a collage. In which we include clippings from things on our canvas.

This is mine....


I didn't take a picture of Wes' because he doesn't like his. :) Anyway, I hope you enjoyed seeing what we've been working on and talking about for the past couple of weeks. See you soon!