Life at Pratt

I was very relieved to be placed with a room mate who I get along with! Julia is from Rhode Island and is studying illustration at Pratt. She is a vegan and we both agree that the food at Pratt is horrible so we have been going to local grocery stores to buy healthier and more edible food.

Last week I had my first art history class, which seems like it is going to be great! Every day we meet we are going to go to a different museum and on the last class we are going to do a presentation and turn in a paper. I am very excited and was fascinated already on the first day of class. We went through five thousand years of art since we have so little time, gathering general knowledge about different time periods, styles, and artists.

Right now in my painting and drawing class we are working on painting still life (fruits and class bottles), which I find extremely boring. However, it is something I have never done before and really need to work on. After still life we will move on to figure painting, which will be much more interesting.

In my art foundations class we are covering basic elements of art, color, positive and negative space. Last class we had our first opportunity to work with a model and develop our figure drawing skills. This was very fun, and extremely refreshing from still life! I enjoyed the gesture drawing, where the model would hold poses for one minute and we would frantically try and sketch her in that short time.

I have not yet had my portfolio development class, which I am looking forward to. The class only meets three times throughout the program, and I am curious to see what we will be doing. So far so good!