So I have made two dishes that tasted pretty good... and for someone like me who usually needs an event to cook for myself (even though I love it) this is starting to become normal and also... delicious!
Today I made a pasta that I cooked in vegetable broth, drained, then combined with regular tomato sauce (bleh so blad by itself) GARLIC, pepper, olive oil and lots of oregano. YUM! White wine and Project Runway make this really crappy weather seem really cozy.
A more contextual picture... I was in the Piazza del Popolo for the millionth time today, but decided it was worth taking ANOTHER picture of... this time with me in it. This is where I pass through A LOT to get to the more historical part of Rome from my school. The way the picture is facing, past the obelisk and a few more blocks, is my school. In the opposite direction and sort of leaning to the left (of the picture) lies Mom's future apartment about twenty minutes walk!!
A really beautiful view as I left school today. It was a really dramatic day, tonight on the bus ride home (about ten minutes after this picture) there was TONS of lightning and really loud thunder.
Kind of washed out, but here's my portrait! I wasn't completely thrilled with it, but I think it's started me on a really different path than the other painters in the class. I really want to do portraiture and realism while many of them are doing abstract, moody stuff. At first I was extremely nervous, partly because I feel so excluded from the group (they all know each other from Tyler) and because I'm not from art school, I'm not a painting major. But my T.A. is really really incredible and has given me a lot of ideas for what to do next. I'm supposed to have a connected body of work for the semester and practically a painting a week... wow! A change for me! But what I've been really interested in is oil and the strange colors on the body so that's what I'm going to do in my portraits.
