my goals during art school hiatus

I had a great first year at MCAD in terms of learning, it’s been good, but now I am taking a gap year to have a major surgery. There’s a long recovery ahead of me, and I have to have time to work a job since I’m paying for school myself. During this time, I want to make some more large-scale paintings, as I quite enjoyed working on my drawing final. I want to come back to MCAD with more energy than I had, and get used to making big, ambitious works without the time crunch art school brings. There’s a lot of compromises that come with homework art, I feel like I need some time to ground myself.

Kicking off my break, I’m currently in rural Missouri to see an old mentor, I’ve been staying with her, and drawing, it’s been nice to sit and think. Immediately after I fly back to Minnesota, I’m going under the knife (on June 9th.) the rough recovery time is going to be 3 months for this, I’m hoping that I’m going to have the energy to blow through a big painting, they did say I can stand up pretty soon after. So, I’m not going to push myself to make anything properly big then if I can’t. At worst, I’ll have some lazy social time with my friends and family, which seems pretty okay. I want to make some projects that fully realize the things I’ve learned in my studies, and personal life at MCAD, as well as the feelings I have about returning to Missouri, plus surgery recovery time, in a monumental way. I’d also really like to show at a few galleries, and maybe run up to Portland to get tattoos.

And finish Drawabox, I cleared lesson 5 and I’m so close!

that’s it I guess, have a swell rest of your day

Elise