I actually made a list, because I love lists. There are things that I want to create, and processes or ideas that I want to research now that I've time to do more in-depth reading than is possible in the middle of the semester.
1. Paint. I've been itching to paint for a while now. It's something that I love to do, although not something I want to focus my career around. (Painting as a major seems to focus a lot on conceptual work, and although I dig conceptual pieces, sometimes I just want to make pretty pictures and fling paint around, you know?)
I was all set and ready to start painting when I realised that I can't find the canvas drop-cloth that I use to protect the table from flung paint. I get the feeling that either Mom or I put it someplace 'safe,' and that it will have to stay there indefinitely until someone finds it whilst looking for something else. And perhaps I'll just have to use a garbage bag in the interim.
I also want to improve my digital painting/colouring skills. It's something else I like to do in my free time, and a valuable skill to have considering all of my volunteer graphic work I find myself doing periodically.
2. Learn more about stop motion animation. Because I love it. Oh so very much. I want to spend my summer buried in books about animation. There's an example of one of my experiments here.
3. Digital photography. Because taking good pictures of my work is kind of an essential skill to have.
4. Create pieces to sell at the Show and Sale. The Show and Sale is a once a semester sale of student artworks. I've wanted to put work in it pretty much since I started going to the school, but found it impossible to create anything other than assigned projects during the summer. I'll probably make a lot of ear hats. Like this, only better:
I also want to exercise more, work more, garden, and start baking my own bread again. Because home-made bread is lovely.
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