City Fun

I went to the city today with Sarah. We went to the Neue Galerie which pretty cool. Sarah said that there weren't as many Schieles there as she saw last time, but I still enjoyed it. Expressionism is my favourite art movement. I don't like happy art. I don't think someone can do a lot with happy. There is more complexity in the other emotions. I never paint or draw anything smiling.
After the Neue we went to Central Park and watched ducks slip on the ice in the pond.
After we went to eat food, and meet up with Caitlin who came down from Purchase to see a concert with Sarah later that night.
My parents picked me up in the city, and my grandmother was with them. She had gotten very drunk on sangria. My parents had bought a pitcher in a restaurant, but only had two glasses and took the rest home. My grandmother drank the rest in the car on the way to pick me up. Once I got in the car she started to go on about how I never visit her.

It was a pretty cool day. I painted today after all of that. Michelle Marin was teaching me a little about blending colors on Thursday, and I decided that I'd try painting now, using some of what I learned even though I am far from mastery. I normally just paint an entire section a certain color, but now I'm trying to blend and shade and stuff. I like bodies. A body tells a story in a way a face can't. Also, I don't like drawing still life objects. It's fun, because all of this art is fun to me, but drawing my computer or phone doesn't really show anything interesting to me. They're things in life, and a naked body is something totally mysterious and beautiful. I also realized that I am much better at drawing women. I have gotten much better at drawing bodies, but the majority of models that I have seen are women, so I know how to draw them better. Women's bodies are more visually beautiful, mostly because of the curves. Men are square-ish.