My cyanide girl

Another week, another Society of Illustrators. And since this is all what I've been doing with my life this is all I really have to show/talk about.

The model was kind of weird, she was skinny and small with kind of pokey hips and larger, saggy titties which is, needless to say, JUST NOT MY TYPE. 

She kind of sucked too, all of her poses were conventional and kind of boring... contemplative at best.

 

There were no celebrities THIS TIME but there was a few awkward male interactions because I forgot my book to read during breaks (REMINDER: never forget my book!)
Anyway joses I might be going swimming later because it's like 90 degrees in the Jerse.
SO GET SET TO GET WET.

Have a heart

Dear Sleigh Bells,
I've noticed you, have you noticed me? I know this might seem a little weird since we don't know each other that well but I think I love you.
I know that I've said that I liked other bands, but they don't make me feel the way you do.
You're the coolest, prettiest, smartest band I know.
Love,
Kate

p.s.  I thought you guys would think it was funny that my parents bought 1,000 lady bugs to eat something or something in our garden. Half of them flew into the house right away and the rest of them left after a few days. Here's a straggler.

I left my heart in San Francisco

Hey so do you know Tony Bennett? Great American Songbook, tuxedos, cocaine addiction, as pictured above, Tony Bennett? Did you know he was also a painter? DID YOU KNOW HE WAS AT THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS SKETCH NIGHT I WENT TO LAST NIGHT?

I bet not.
Well he was! He was sitting two chairs down from me and his drawings were pretty good, and he told me to take care or something at the end. So bizarre! He's not like a big celebrity nowadays or anything but it was just really cool/weird/alternate universe.
Needless to say I am definitely going to the one next week SO WE'LL SEE WHO'S THE CELEBRITY GUEST = me.

My dad took the train in with me and walked me part of the way because he had to meet someone in the city and it was raining... so it was time for the embarrassing big umbrella. I think he looks really funny in this picture because of how big his umbrella is... BUT DON'T TELL HIM THAT. He kept whacking people in the head as he walked by because it was so unnecessarily gigantic (what would Tony Bennett think?). Alright now that you're looking at that picture .... DRAWING ATTACK

This one got smudged a lot because it (and all of the others) are in chalk pastel but who knows? Maybe that will make me famous?

This last one is my favorite. With this last round of figure drawing, it shocks me how aggressively uninterested I am in the faces of the models. It's kind of horrifying now that I'm looking at them the wacky knob things I slap up there with basically no features. But how can you look the face when you have the hips?!?! That is my personal philosophy at least.

Queen Bitch

No no not me! (or you)
It's the title of a David Bowie song that I was listening to and it has this one lyric "it could of been me" that repeats a few times and I thought to myself I REALLY LIKE THAT.
Okay, don't be mad but I made a tumblr called it could have been me BUT THIS BLOG WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.
fr rlz it will.
And don't worry EVERYBODY but I'm not quitting or anything. I just don't have anything to do really over the summer and it's a different kind of outlet. I expect that this will continue to be about my life/art/school and the tumblr just to be cultural snippets AS THEY SAY. I actually think it would be cool to have like a theme but then I just started posting random sh*t. Suggestions? Well-wishes? Insults? I'LL TAKE ANYTHING!

p.s.
I learned how to screen cap YES and this is my blog because I didn't know what else to screen cap!
oh and OH I just biked in the rain to get some books from the library and found that the lines were atrocious because they had to let go of 20% of their staff because of budget cutbacks and just when I wanted to be a librarian!

That's a lot of french!

I saw Robin Hood this morning and can I just say OMG (as in Only Mothers Go, the mothers of the actors or whoever, to see it). It sucked. Like badly. Not so badly that it was genius but pretty g-damn bad. It was well made I guess and it really WANTED to be good but no cigar, not even close. It was so weird and so NOT the robin hood story I remember. So many unnecessary things kept happening like when Robin goes to fight the french and then freakin Marion (oh yeah it's Cate Blanchett--why? I don't know but she has this ridiculously long wig and is supposed to be like 25, and she's not) comes up with a bunch of boys with spears and me and my sister were like WHAT. And then she almost dies, for basically no reason. And it ends with Robin being outlawed and everyone living in a "forest dwelling" and Cate Blanchett says something about everyone being equal at nature's table blahblah WHATEVER who cares? I mean my dad liked it, but he also likes Twilight so....


All in all, don't see it.

This is my sister yesterday being upset for one reason or other but I thought it made a good picture.

Besides, she couldn't of been that upset, or she wouldn't have done these pole "stunts" at the park!

With her friend Anna

AND playing badminton

I'll leave you today with this little offering:

My teacher just sent out this pic of our drawing final. AND YOU GUESSED IT. That's mamma right in the middle... because that's just what she likes.

All around the world statues crumble for me

I know this is really weird looking greasy 90's band head shot of a weird 90's band but I LOVE SUGAR RAY and there's nothing you, your mom, or the president's mom can do about it!

p.s. my sister just said "oh look a new lady gaga song... alejandro!" I don't think I have to explain to THIS "fan base" that that song has been done come out.

So, in not-up-to-speed-living-in-the-past-news I visited my high school yesterday with Sabrina to visit our #1 art teacher Mr. Cleerdin!! I hope he reads this entry because I gave him the link to this so he can join the ever expanding movement of mIlLiOnS (five). It was great to see him, but very weird to be at the high school and I wanted to leave as soon as possible. Well for one, the period bells scare me. For two, Sabrina wanted to visit the guidance office and one of the secretaries hugged me WAY too tight and called me Rachel (2 things that make me v uncomfortable). Irregardless let's not repeat that anytime soon okay?

Hey so I'm going to the Society of Illustrators SKeTCH NiGHT on tuesday with Ken Parris (aka LOOK AT THIS B.A. ART HE'S MAKING). So needless to say I'm really psyched BEYOND belief. It's only $7.00 because I'm a student and there's live music and an open bar (oOoOo) and 3 hOuRzzzzz of freakin life drawing guys, one of my top 10 favorite things!!!! EVERYONE GET LOUD.
great thanks.

Upside down bouncing off the ceiling

Inside out, stranger to this feeling- what? No that's not S Club 7 it's.... Neon Milk Collective duh.
(I just made that up)
But good news (depending on who/where you are/how much you care about me) I'M HOME FOR SUMMER BREAK!
Montclair, NJ the home of lots of trees and the guy that comes on after Jon Stewart and ran for president, and ME.

This is my(now my mom's) desk at home, a view out my bedroom window and my computer with WHAT'S THAT this blog post BEING WRITTEN. Congrats guys it's THE INTERNET.

Okay kids, a quick recap on finals for yours truly:

That's it, basically. No that's just Katherine's interpretation of her 10 page research paper on Primitivism. It was during our all-day writing sesh. At this time I was sitting across from her, beating Rothko to death (figuratively i'm sure) for my art history paper, but I thought this would express my sentiments about my academic classes.

Also I saw a show that my drawing teacher, the one the only Sarah Roche, curated which was really great. It was cool to see her work, other teacher's work, and up-and-comers who I hope to/will become. There was even an artist who graduated from Tyler and is going to go to Yale for her MFA = alkfbnfbkadlnabakjlgekbnldknb IT IS POSSIBLE.
p.s. to those who don't believe in dreams, that is my master plan because Yale has the best MFA program in the country. And then to teach art/have my own thriving painting, sculpture, video practice/be an internet superstar/live in Paris. See mom? Just like Martin Luther King.
And what does the Philadelphia Swing Dance Society have to do with this? Nothing really, we were just walking back from the exhibit and I thought it was a funny sign.

Additionally, before leaving Philly, we toured the Masonic Temple oOoOo

Number 1: I don't really understand Masons or whatever but apparently they control the world and DID YOU KNOW, Buzz Aldrin is a Mason, and so was my grandpa (I didn't know either of those things until yesterday)

Number 2: Very weird place, that's the ceiling of one of the hallways. Each hall was decorated in a different historic theme and was very strange and shiny like a casino.

I FAIL TO COMPREHEND.

Irregardless and to conclude a self-timed picture of my sister that she took on my camera and I'm sure thought would never see the light of day.

Well here it is.