My last rose scholars event was great. It was a bit overcast but I was really happy that we were still able to do the event outside. I have not painted in so long. It was nice to just enjoy being outside in the fresh air and paint with others. I painted a small canvas for one of my friends who is leaving Cornell. I am really glad that I got to make something for her to remember me by. I also painted another thing for another friend. Painting is so relaxing and great for mental health. I hope that next semester things are more normal and there are many more painting events. I hope to also paint a lot more next summer.

I wouldn’t really consider myself a good artist so I don’t do things like painting or drawing often but I had a lot of fun with this event. It was good to actually get to attend a scholar event in person and get to meet some of the other people in living in Rose. I was also happy to be outside and take some time to destress at the end of a a very stressful semester. I think that my tree kind of ended up looking like a monster so I can’t say that I’m totally satisfied with what I made during this session, but I enjoyed talking with people and there were some very talented artists here and I’m glad I got to see their work.

This was an outdoor painting event, that I was happy to attend with some friends from within the House. We all sat outside on a bench, and pulled from GRF Maggie’s collection of art supplies: pens, pencils, brushes, bowls, canvases, pieces of paper, and loads of acrylic paint were included on one of the picnic tables for our group to select from.

During the course of the event, my group and I were all able to produce extremely varied pieces of wildly different art styles. This semester, I’m taking a game design course, for which I’m producing art; on my canvas, I replicated the game’s protagonist character over our game’s color scheme. One of my friends drew a large tree in the foreground of her piece, to replicate nature. Another one drew a realistic rendition of one of West Campus’ buildings. After looking at all of our pieces separately, I realized how different all our pieces were, and how appreciative it made me of our own respective methods of creativity.

This was one of the most fun events I’ve gone to this spring and was a great way to end the semester! I really like painting but there’s not much of a chance to do it when I’m on campus so I thought it would be a good way to destress, especially with the mountain of work left to finish up before classes end. It was a little chilly with a looming threat of rain but I’m glad it didn’t. Painting outdoors was a new experience for me and I enjoyed the breeze, and it was really fun to chat with people while doing so.

Finally got to attend an in-person Rose Scholars event! I was really looking forward to this event as I love painting and it was a good way to relax. I had a good time and enjoyed painting and chatting with Maggie and everyone attending. I had several canvases that I bought last semester but never got a chance to paint on them, so I tried to paint some today, but I only got a base coat on those canvases before letting them dry and trying a new painting on a smaller canvas. I tried to paint water for the first time, which was pretty hard and intimidating. I couldn’t capture all the lighter blues clearly since I couldn’t see my reference photo very clearly due to being outside, but I like how it turned out after I touched it up back in my room with a white paint pen.