Arctic weather has descended on northern Virginia, with highs barely reaching 30 degrees and snow on the forecast pretty much every day this week. I've reached back into the depths of my closet and retrieved my ski gloves and my big, poofy red parka. Fashionable I am not - but I'm warm! :)

In other news, I'm in my second week of design class. This week we're picking a master's painting and abstracting it out into three or four values of black so that we can analyze its composition. My choice is an Edward Hopper work titled Chop Suey. In the next few weeks we'll be working from more paintings, as well as our own photographs.