The Journal of Claire

This journal ended up on PostSecret

I guess its not a secret anymore...

Its strange to have a connection to something on PostSecret...and to not just be a voyer into someone elses demons.

I thought I'd give you guys a page, something I've been working on lately and wish you all a happy holidays.


Materials: National Geographic, newspaper.
Words: none

This piece is listed as one of those pages in my book as just being visually something, not relative to anything, but thats kind of a lie. The piece was mildly about the guy I was involved with, but not really. Its half about being close to someone and love over time and its half just visually nice to look at. Whichever.

So I just finished up my first semester of Sculptural Studies I and in it I ended up making a stop motion film. I posted it on YouTube, so you all can check it out!


And a Happy Holidays to everyone!

PS: I have a few pages left I can give you guys before I run out of scanned pages. When I get back to school after break I'll do my best to remember to scan some more pages to give to you guys. I'm gonna do my best to stay somewhat regular with this journal come the new year, but we all know how much water my promises hold. heh.

I know, I know. I said I'd re-strt updates over a month ago and here we are...neck deep in October and still no updates! For that I am sorry...but I wasn't aware of how hectic my sophmore year was going to be! Oh well.

But I am not posting empty handed! I have two (not one, but two!) cellphone pics for you guys!

My summer job:

I spent the majority of my summer being a cash register bitch at a Deli down the shore. Most of my co-workers were Russian...which was fun and really annoying at the same time. This is my view of the Deli from my lovely (horrible), well behaved (whorish) cash register.

My weekend in NYC:

After I finished up my job at the deli, I went to NYC with my mom for a weekend. It was really hot, but a good weekend all together. We saw lots of art, which was awsome, and we also rushed the musical Spamalot. If you don't know how to rush a show, I high reccomend you do some research and find out! Its a great way to see shows that otherwise would be WAY too expensive. Anyway, outside of the theater they had this display where could stick your face in a hole and you were in a famous Monty Python scene!! Very silly! In case you're wondering, yes that is me and yes, I am a ninny.

I'll TRY (key word here) to get something up and running here in the way of journal pages but I make no promises. I'm also thinking I might have to change what days of the week I update and how often I do it...we may have to cut down to once a week or so, till I get my act together (which isn't very likely...)

So i know we've been on an un-explained hiatus for quite some time, but that will change very shortly.

I'm sorry i've been gone so long, but the end of the school year sucked up all my free time, and then before I knew it summer was upon me, and I had tons to do. Again, i'm sorry.

But do not fret! We'll be back soon with tons of freshly scanned pages!

Our official re-start will be Tuesday Sept. 5th! but I may post some pages here randomly before then.

If theres anything you'd like to see here, drop me a comment and let me know. Do you want me to re-start the weekly cell-phone pics? Do you want smaller journal pages, for faster loading? Would you like to see some of my current sketches, instead of all pages from my older journal? Let me know! I'm all ears!

Materials: Newspaper, Computer Printout, Fortune cookie slip, highlighter.
Words: " "

Before i even started applying to colleges I knew which college I was going to go to. Moore was the first and only choice for me. But even when you KNOW what you're doing with your life, theres still that little bit of you thats unsure. So when I was invited to spend a weekend at Moore with a current Moore student, I was happy to take up the opertunity. In hindsight, it was a good idea to do the Sneak Preview weekend, because I ended up meeting a girl there who is now one of my closer friends here at college.

So yeah...I really like the orange highlighter with the purple paper...

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Whoo!

Sorry i missed yesterday...needless to say things have been hectic around here.


Materials: National Geographic, Watercolors, Burned edge, Pen
Words: " Whenever I rip a page out of my / s k e t c h b o o k . . . / In some way I feel / v i o l a t e d"

Before I started Fine Art IV I had to go through all my work and pull out/create 50 pieces for a massive portfolio review. In doing so, i was forced to rip pages upon pages out of my sketchbook so that I could hand them all in.

Ripping something out of a sketchbook is an awful feeling. Its like ripping a month out of a calendar thats already past...i know that doesn't sound that bad, but not having the ability to look back on the months gone past really bothers me.

Fun fact! The girl isn't crying, she exhausted from tango dancing! But the look on her face seemed to me to be a universal look of pain, so i used it anyway!!