Well i think it's been about a week since i've posted. A good deal has happened in the past seven days. I went to amsterdam last friday and saturday and what luck it was sunny! Although quite cold. I Walked the city three times over, exploring all that it has to offer. It truly is a strange place, culture, sex and drugs coexsiting peacefully. The red light district surrounds the oldest church in the city. One can't help but fell the irony; The sound of church bells resonates through your ears as half naked women bathed in red occupy every line of site. One of amsterdams most intriguing aspects are the numerous canals that disect the city. Three major crescent shaped canals encircle the center and there are various smaller waterways throughout. I also went to the rijksmuseum which houses a great deal of rembrandts and an amazing collectin of vermeers. Although i was slighty disappointed. The museum is under construction and the collection, which usually occupies some 60 rooms, was condensed to a general best of selection housed in 12 rooms. In short too many people in too small of space. Next time i go plan to visit the van gough museum which is currently home to a rembrandt carravagio exhibit.

This week it has been snowing, it's funny i'm like a little kid in the snow. Since i had a childhood devoid of snow i've decided to make the most of it. Biking in the snow is far more dangerous than biking while drunk, The breaks tend to slip on the frosted pavement, needless to say i've had quite a few close calls as of late. I got my studio on wednesday, so after a month now i can finally start to be productive. Oil painting is kicking my ass, i have a great deal to learn. It's nice not to have deadlines, i can experiment and be more playful with the medium. I'll have new work up by the end of next week. Speaking of work, i think your movie poster is quite good dan. My immediate impression was that the head seemed to big, followed by where will the text be placed? The composition is strong, i can see that your developing a strong grasp on the concepts learned in visual organization. As for me, those concepts are still quite unnatural. When painting from the model or drawing from life ,my composition are relatively weak because i don't have the time to sit and work out the large shapes and the secondary shapes etc. It doesn't come so simply thats all, just another thing to work at. Did you do your poster in Oil Pastel? Also of note in your piece is the value stucture, looks some ideas from black and white is color are showing up. Lighting and value are two of the primary issues i'm having with painting right now. Basically i'm a horrible illustrator, i can't compose, nor can i direct the eye with light. sob. Maybe i'll be able to do something about that over the next 4 months.

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How is life, that's direct to everyone who is now posting on here. Darin it's nice to see that you are now a memeber, writing so many different emails becomes time consuming, it's a difficult thing to keep in conact with people. I could sit in my room for hours a day writing emails. What kind of things would you like to know about the house that i'm living in? Who was your friend that came to visit darin? Who is the new poster on the blog, is it nyk? this is question segment of this post and will conatin various questions to various people. Is the house registering for a group show, i received an email about registering for shows? Oh, does this mean we have to register for our senior shows now? Dan are you going to shawn barbers opening this weekend? i read on his site that the opening is today? i'll have to pick up one of his books when i get back. Did you see that Madonna got added to the coachella line up? All right i'm off, i've got to cook for an international dinner tonight. i'll take pictures and you can see some of the people that i live with. sorry it's been a while between posts. hope all is well.

Dui as they say it