here is a drawing and another painting I'm working on. my painting teacher told me I should always be working on multiple paintings. I don't know if I agree but I'm going to try it out anyway. School is going a little better I think. I'm learning a lot from myself which is pretty exciting.
any constructive criticism for them?

Unlock the door, look at people's work, not say anything, is exactly how instruction goes here. It's interesting you brought up grades a while ago because in the college of creative studies we don't really have grades. you just get more or less units depending on how hard you're working/how well you do in a class. This is supposed to encourage us to take more classes and push ourselves.
Next quarter i will take some classes in the college of letters and sciences. There is one instructor there, a mr. eric beltz, who supposedly teaches drawing and painting? i've heard good things. In Letters and Sciences i will have grades, it will be a more traditional way of running classes.
I've had a difficult time articulating my work to my instructors and fellow classmates. I guess right now my art is this borderline subconscious spill of symbolism that speaks of my feelings in relation to the world around me. Is this immature and oh god. . . arbitrary or trite? It feels genuine to me, but i feel like others may think it's not out there enough. not that it even matters what they think. oh my god, look at me. what a dork. I guess I'm just trying to understand where they are coming from and why they would think that about my work.
How do you talk about your work? I always feel really on the spot and like I'm being attacked. my painting teacher always bombards me with millions of whys. Sometimes i don't know the answer to why when it's not finished because it's still piecing itself together.
oh boy. . .
Maybe if you get the chance you could talk about your clown painting that you're working on?
the art world is a bizarre place.
As for the painting on the floor boards. I see what everyone is saying. i went into it going "hey this would be interesting to paint on." I didn't think to consider the painting surface as part of the subject or how it would interfere with the subject for that matter. In any case it was a good learning experience =) thanks for the crit.