School Field trip

For those of you who don't know, I am an Interior Design Student right now. I just started my first semester and so far I am loving it. I have 2 online classes - that I actually don't love -  and then 2 on campus; a Drafting class and a Principles and Elements class. The two on campus I love, though they are 3 hours long each, but it's hands on the entire class period so it actually goes by fairly quickly. I'm at school twice a week from 1:30-9:30 p.m. - super long day and it doesn't help that my drive is an HOUR each way either. It's not great now, but I can see myself bragging to my kids or grandkids in the future about my long treks to school like my dad did when he said he walked everywhere.

In my drafting class right now we are learning how to draft a construction packet which involves a floorplan, furniture plan, electrical plan, elevation sketches, etc. We're working on our packets now for our last project and its going to take a good long while.

Fact of the day (that I am not thrilled about whatsoever): Apparently your visual acuity jumps down two degrees after you take a drafting class. So my vision will no longer be 20/15 after this semester.

My Principles and Elements class is my night class that starts at 6:30-9:30. We are obviously learning about Principles and Elements of design and it seems like a review for me since I already knew this stuff before from high school and my other art classes at UVU, but my instructor is also pushing me super hard so its good. We just got done with our first project and now we're working on our second. All of our projects in this class are non-objective and 2 and 3-dimensional, which is something that I have never been good at and we can't use color.  I was very bitter about this until probably just a few days ago and then I decided to get over it.

Here is a picture of my first project. Since there were so many rules and restrictions I'm not a huge fan of it, but my instructor loved it so I guess thats good!

We had a fieldtrip on a Sunday afternoon to an Art Gallery (yes, on Sunday. I was weirded out, but I'm not in UT anymore so I guess I have to expect that sometimes). I was excited for this field trip because it was a chance to refresh our minds for our second project and get inspiration. And most importantly,  because it was a chance for me to show off my wonderful husband to all of my classmates and instructor.  My instructor was actually really looking forward to meeting Evan because he is very interested in the water research that Evan is doing for his Ph.D. So as I was off sketching a piece of work for an assignment Evan and my instructor got to know each other a little bit and I could tell my instructor really liked him, but thats not surprising.