Greece

        Leaving Italy was hard. But I had never been to Greece before so looking forward to something new really helped. In Greece we are located on the island of Paros, and staying in the main/only port town of Parikia. The island is beautiful and every Friday we go on a hike to explore a new part of our little island. Before coming to the island we spent 3 days in Athens in which case we visited the Acropolis and it's accompanying new museum. Of course, for these 3 days my camera didn't work but thankfully I went back there with my parents when they came to visit so I have lots lovely photos to share with you all. Italy was all about traveling and seeing new things while here on Paros we actually have to do work  and show up to class, which was a little hard to get used to.
        We have classes four days a week and I am taking Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Art History, Greek Literature, and Greek Language. The most intensive classes being painting, printmaking, and figure drawing but the other ones are important too. In painting we're working with oil paints and have tried different subjects and ideas such as earth palette (burnt sienna, yellow ochre, black, white), reflection, Impressionist using prismatic palette ( red, blue, yellow, white), landscape, portrait, narrative, heightening with white and a few more. Painting with oil colors is a lot different then anything else but I've learned a lot and really enjoy it. Figure drawing is really interesting. We started with general ideas of posses and form and then we learned about the skeleton and muscles of the body. I have improved probably 120% since the beginning. And I have figured out that I love printmaking, its so interesting. It's very similar to drawing but gives you a completely different feeling.
        I just wanted to let everyone know a little bit about what I'm doing here. Lots of pictures to follow. Loves and Kisses, Hugs and misses- Cori