1/29, Thursday.
A short
workshop at Art Love Salon.
This one is very fun.
Our teacher today is
Garima Tripathi.
She prepared clay, sponge, towel and even an apron for everyone. Most importantly an eye mask.
We put on the mask, followed her instructions: eye sockets in the middle of the face, now the nose, ...
She walked around and pointing our mistakes: for example, my right eye was too low.
We didn't take off the mask until the whole face was made.
Then, we got to look at our own creation. Last, we put on eye mask again to add hair, or whatever.
I put on a mustache to fill the space between the nose and upper lip. Otherwise, it looked unnatural.
I also put a hat on my head.
Didn't get to take my clay head home. We dumped all our heads into a plastic bag, which she'll kneel them together for her next blindfold class.
At 7pm, Seattle Times hosts "Pictures of the Year" at the central library.
A large turn-out. Very nice photos.
4 people talked. 2 are editors, 2 are reporters. It also celebrated one lady who's retiring soon. She's been with the Times for 28 years!
And during these years, she has documented many local events.
The teardown of Kingdom is a sight to behold.
Another interesting photo she showed was Jeff Bezos lying on a book shelf full of books!
A junior reporter (only 2 years young at the Times) talked about her journey.
An editor talked about the effort to cover the flooding end of 2025.
Q&A afterwards, and 2 photos in nice print were given away as a surprise.
I really enjoyed the talks and the photos. I don't even read Seattle Times. Maybe I should!
1/29, Thursday.
A short workshop at Art Love Salon.
This one is very fun.
Our teacher today is Garima Tripathi.
She prepared clay, sponge, towel and even an apron for everyone. Most importantly an eye mask.
We put on the mask, followed her instructions: eye sockets in the middle of the face, now the nose, ...
She walked around and pointing our mistakes: for example, my right eye was too low.
We didn't take off the mask until the whole face was made.
Then, we got to look at our own creation. Last, we put on eye mask again to add hair, or whatever.
I put on a mustache to fill the space between the nose and upper lip. Otherwise, it looked unnatural.
I also put a hat on my head.
Didn't get to take my clay head home. We dumped all our heads into a plastic bag, which she'll kneel them together for her next blindfold class.
At 7pm, Seattle Times hosts "Pictures of the Year" at the central library.
A large turn-out. Very nice photos.
4 people talked. 2 are editors, 2 are reporters. It also celebrated one lady who's retiring soon. She's been with the Times for 28 years!
And during these years, she has documented many local events.
The teardown of Kingdom is a sight to behold.
Another interesting photo she showed was Jeff Bezos lying on a book shelf full of books!
A junior reporter (only 2 years young at the Times) talked about her journey.
An editor talked about the effort to cover the flooding end of 2025.
Q&A afterwards, and 2 photos in nice print were given away as a surprise.
I really enjoyed the talks and the photos. I don't even read Seattle Times. Maybe I should!
