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Mar. 13th, 2010 09:40 pmThe cotton session went OK but not excitingly so. I do think a few people carried away some new concepts and understandings, though, so that's OK.
Gary has spent much of the day struggling with badly designed and untested homework assignments from instructors who simply do not answer their e-mail even after days of effort. Assignments that require certain operations to be performed in software packages certainly should be tried out first by the instructors. An assignment that requires you to overlay a floor plan with only ten windows onto the image of a building that has 13 windows, for instance, is utter crap.
Likewise one that requires you to map certain points onto North America only the points have coordinates somewhere in the South Pacific. What is with these people? They evidently throw these assignments together at the last minute, and then disappear until the assignment is due. Sorry, that does not qualify as "teaching".
I had to drag him away from the computer and make him go out for lunch. Likewise at dinner time I again had to forcibly interrupt him. I expect a bad night in which he dreams of being back in the air force or at his consulting job. This always follows excessive stress.
Birds are waking up. Red winged blackbirds and grackles arrived here today. Juncos are becoming less common. Cardinals are singing all day, in spite of the gloomy drizzle.
Reference photo of the farm in autumn color, with two horses standing at the fence, selected for that limited palette assignment. Too late to start it tonight, but I'll work on it tomorrow. Fairly small scale, like about 8 x 10 in. I think, to make it go fast and reduce the level of detail. I don't expect much trouble with the colors as the specified palette will be mostly weak in the purple region. A clear orange may be hard to obtain, but for autumn foliage a rusty orange is just fine. Much of what appears in the picture is oak and hickory, which go to rusty crimson and greenish yellow respectively. Both of those should be easy to obtain with the specified primaries.
Gary has spent much of the day struggling with badly designed and untested homework assignments from instructors who simply do not answer their e-mail even after days of effort. Assignments that require certain operations to be performed in software packages certainly should be tried out first by the instructors. An assignment that requires you to overlay a floor plan with only ten windows onto the image of a building that has 13 windows, for instance, is utter crap.
Likewise one that requires you to map certain points onto North America only the points have coordinates somewhere in the South Pacific. What is with these people? They evidently throw these assignments together at the last minute, and then disappear until the assignment is due. Sorry, that does not qualify as "teaching".
I had to drag him away from the computer and make him go out for lunch. Likewise at dinner time I again had to forcibly interrupt him. I expect a bad night in which he dreams of being back in the air force or at his consulting job. This always follows excessive stress.
Birds are waking up. Red winged blackbirds and grackles arrived here today. Juncos are becoming less common. Cardinals are singing all day, in spite of the gloomy drizzle.
Reference photo of the farm in autumn color, with two horses standing at the fence, selected for that limited palette assignment. Too late to start it tonight, but I'll work on it tomorrow. Fairly small scale, like about 8 x 10 in. I think, to make it go fast and reduce the level of detail. I don't expect much trouble with the colors as the specified palette will be mostly weak in the purple region. A clear orange may be hard to obtain, but for autumn foliage a rusty orange is just fine. Much of what appears in the picture is oak and hickory, which go to rusty crimson and greenish yellow respectively. Both of those should be easy to obtain with the specified primaries.
