I can't handle these paintings. We had to do three of them and they are due tomorrow and I am only about 60% done. I had a lot of complications with the sketches and the skin tone colors. I am just not ready to turn them in yet. I need to do the third one really quick with washes first and then finish the backgrounds on the other two. I just really don't like how poorly organized this class is.
The teacher piles on projects, one on top of the other. Right in the middle of one assignment, she throws another one on us that is due a class after the one we were working on. Not to mention the end-of-class presentations on artists she wants to get through for our quiz in a week now. I really think she should do the presentations first in the beginning of the class and get them out of the way because some of us have a class 15-minutes after that one ends and need to factor in travel time and for me, dressing out time for Yoga. She seems to not understand that we don't have time to make it all the way back to the room to do work and use the materials there and to finish these in such a small time frame. She is putting too much on us at once and I have literally suffered health problems because of it. I have suffered not only a staple in the finger from that class, but also stress and lack of eating issues that could result in me having hypoglycemia. I not only have the paintings to work on for her class but also other projects and assignments or tests to study for in the others. I thought watercolor would be fun but so far it has been more hectic than even Business Communication where we actually have notes, assignments, and tests to worry about. I have been physically injured and unhealthily weak. It has not been a good semester for me.
I am waiting on going to my next class so I can come back, buy more paint, get the paintings from my car and then start painting again. Who knows if I will even have time for dinner. I might just buy a soda and fix a sandwich here or have leftover taco bell, yum....
So, when the teacher reviews come out, I am going to diss the class and its organization but leave some less than positive comments about the teacher saying that although she is passionate about watercolor and a nice person, she has difficulties perceiving the overload and unorganized layout of how she runs the class. She piles on one project after the other right in the middle of another one leaving the due dates too soon to even compile a constructive piece of work, producing lectures at the end of the class rather than at the beginning and sometimes running over time, and providing too many assignments within one semester. She needs to spread the assignments out further, work on giving presentations early, and provide a little more free time in class to work on pieces.
She can't expect creativity to just pop out at any given time we ask. It is a process that takes time to compile and perceive. We aren't robots who can instantaneously provide what she needs of us as painters. She focuses too highly on the technical side of watercolor painting such as the techniques in the beginning of the semester and not enough focus on the producing time of actual projects. Some artists work slower than others and can't be rushed so easily unlike others. Some artists take time and effort in their work rather than simply producing something out of the blue whenever she wants.
I am almost tempted on skipping tomorrow because this is just too much to handle. I really want to turn in completed works of art that I am proud to show in class rather than simply turning in a half-assed done painting that obviously looks like I needed more time to work on. It is just ridiculous her schedule. I don't see how anyone can fit within it's restrictive format.
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