Kind of late

Off t0 MCAD! Woooooooooooooooo

Workinworkin

I feel like I need to do some projects. Lots of projects. I shouldn't worry about them once I start them and I shouldn't think about the outcome before I start it, I know it makes me nervous and I usually overwork the piece.

I feel like I say that all the time.

But now I need to actually do that. I'm pretty excited for class tomorrow, but right now I'm watching Harry Potter on tv, so I'm pretty satisfied with not doing some art right now. I'll just do it tomorrow :]

Found!

Check itttttt. Nice site with some nice birds.

I should really figure out what I'm doing painting all these birds. I kind of feel silly, but it's enjoyable. So I'm likin' it.

This guy does some glorious things to them.

http://www.frankgonzales.net/PAINTINGS.html



I also just had to mention my neighbor...Beth Sautter.
We have a couple of her pieces. I just really like them. They're teeny too.

http://www.bethsautter.com/new_paintings/index.html

Why am I posting this.

http://painteveryday.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-03-24T19%3A00%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

I just found this when I was looking for birds for inspiration in order to start my two concentration pieces.

I really like the use of gold leaf, so nice.

Super

Well I was in Arizona all weekend for lacrosse (super fun) and it was super cool because I've never been there before. It was super hot and got super rainy but we had some super games and the artistic insight I got was just super. Ha.

I'm being honest though, I got a few cool pictures, but the only topic I could remember was the color and night time one so I just stuck to those. I got some, now I just need to develop them! Yeeee.


baaaaahhhhhhhhh we have school tomorrow.

Nummy

There's a postcard sitting next to me of a frog. You see this card is always sitting here and I always look at the frog and basically I'm in lovewith this frog. Like full fledged affair.

Isn't he pretty?

I just finally looked up the artist. JoAutumn Brok. Neat name I would say.

The stuff is pretty cool, and fun, and watercolors!

I miss using watercolors, I never did that much, but when I did I was soooooo into it.

Moral of the story, I need to have fun with art, it's the last year to do it, I shouldn't make stuff I don't enjoy making.

SOOOOOOOOOOO nummy.

http://www.rising-earth-images.com/all.php

Another side comment: If you're into vintage clothing, check out this stuff, my friend sells it, it's quality.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/CircleofLoveVintage

Unrelated?

OK I have tried to start this blog with like five different topics but they are all vague enough that I can't write a lot about them. So I will do two of them. Now this will be adequate.

1. Landscape architecture seems like a neat professi

on, I've been researching it. YAY.

(Finding a picture took too much effort)

2. XC state was saturday, we made fourteen posters for all the runners. It was really fun actually and I love making posters.

(This one was my masterpiece)

3. Trying to dig deeper with birds. I'm sure I will find something "deep" about them.

4. I wish I could try doing some stained glass, my mom used to, it seems really fun.

5. I have a ap euro seminar to go do. School is so fun right now.

Manning Up

First I feel like I need to tell Emma: YOU MAN UP.

Just in case she sees this.

Now...

I have to do that bird painting for the volunteer hours (I'm pretty jacked actually) but I don't know what kind of bird to do.

What a toss up.

I feel really dirty taking a picture some one else took and using it, but I'm kind of to that point of need.

And I really like this picture :]

Pinhole

I feel like I either complain or talk about stuff I want to do on this blog.

Today is no exception.

ONE: I really really really want a pinhole camera. I know I could make my own with an oatmeal box, but I kind of want a real camera. Our friend just gave us this book his friend made with all his pinhole photos and they are so neat.

And his name is Zeb Andrews. That's neat.

Cape Kiwanda 15 seconds.

TWO: I don't like painting myself. It's really not fun. I'm not liking this. I was all jacked to paint because I never straight out pain, now I'm painting though and I'm not liking it. I've been working on it today and it's just a flat out struggle. The mouth isn't done, but I don't want to get too tight with it. The expression doesn't look right and I look like a man. I'm not excited to the do bottom half and I really just want to leave it blank. I don't know, we will see how this turns out.

Pioneers

I remember last year when we looked at song lyrics to try and figure out concentration possibilities.

Thinking about that, I remembered how much I liked it.

But even more, I was thinking about what I want to do this year and how this method might help me once again.

I know I've really been diggin the whole bird idea, but I need to think about other stuff to so I don't get sick of birds before even starting them.

Here are some song lyrics from the Decemeberists song: Sons and Daughters.

These currents pull us 'cross the border
Steady your boats
Arms to shoulder
'till tides are pulled
Hold our grounds
Making this cold harbor now home

Take up your arm
Sons and daughters
We will arise from the bunkers
By land, by sea, by dirigible
We'll leave our tracks untraceable now

Reminds me of pioneers. Which would be a neat idea.

Inspiration?

My saturday night was basically a great big adventure. I won't get into it, but at one point we started playing with moving the camera to get that neat light affect everyone knows and loves.

It was really fun, and afterwards, I knew what to do for my family portrait.

I'm pretty happy I was able to recognize where I was inspired initially.

It's a good feeling.

Hey here's a preview.

Caffeine Pills

I've just recently bought some stay awake pills, which I just tried tonight because I'm studying for AP Euro, fun class BY THE WAY, and they kind of suck, I'm like falling asleep. They worked for what, twenty minutes? Oh well.

So I've also been reflecting on my family for a portrait. Cool my mom just left town, so if I actually want them in it, I kind of can't, unless I just count my mom out. Now, I must either get super creative or pull off some major bs. I don't know which one to shoot for yet, but I will try. A lot.

I'm not really used to family portraits, this is the only one I've ever rea

lly done. I think it shows my cousins personalities quite well.

Winners winners pumpkin pickers (yay for October)

HUMDUM

I don't want to rag on self portraits.

So I will just say,

I'm super excited to do one,

I have lot's of great ideas for one,

All the ideas I have are unique and inspiring,

I'm so siked to paint.

(Joke)

Anyways, I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIRSTY THURSDAY (Jamba for art class)

Back to the grind.

To start off the year, I have a few things to quickly cover.

ONE: I'm pretty darn sure my concentration is going to be on birds. I can only make birds right now, it's kind of an issue, but birds are interesting, so I think I could have some fun with it.

TWO: I must thank McBride for giving me Rick Bartow's name, because I'm really diggin' his stuff. I've actually realized that we've watched a video about him and then saw his work in a gallery on our field trip. FOR EXAMPLE.

THIRD: This year is going to be fab. I'm supa siked for this aws year. It's gonna be pro. Totes presh fo sho.

FOURTH: This is pretty cool...

I would never do it though.

The FINALE

Dear AP Art class,

It's the end of the school year. I have to do a final blog. Sooooooooooooo

1. To all future AP 2-D students- GET WORK DONE. At the beginning of the year I could never decide what to do and definitely over thought everything, I never just did a piece because I wanted to, I tried to find things that other people would like and what would look good for my concentration. That was baddddddddd. Once you loosen up and just let yourself do pieces that you may not even use later you really start to get somewhere. Sometimes just starting a painting of your toes or the person next to you can lead to something great, your ideas will develope while you work on something that doesn't even relate to your concentration. But don't take it as a time to goof off, it's still important to stay focused on whatever your doing, even if it's something your doing just for fun.

2. I feel like by the end of the year I really started grooving. That was when I started to make pieces that I really enjoyed working on and wanted to do and spent time doing. I think my favorite though was my cat piece. It was the oil pastel of my yellow cat. At first I just did it because I thought it would be fun to do with oils, and then once I got started I realized how fun it was, so I jammed on it and got somewhere I really liked with it. It really opened up my ideas too. By the end I didn't know how to finish the background, then someone told me not to finish it. It was hard for me to let go, but when I did, I realized how happy I was about it. There was a sharpness to it that I never got in my other pieces.

3. Well, as an artist, I've realized that I get bored with my pieces really easily, so I need to work faster. While I'm doing something I get stuck on it, get frustrated, and try to start something else. I now am starting to understand that I just need to stay loose with my pieces and not think of them as THE PIECE. Just a piece.

4. I loved all the trips and activities we did this year, but the ones that I got the most out of were probably the trip to downtown Portland and the Jesse Reno workshop. The trip downtown really showed me some different kind of stuff out there and gave me a good perspective of all the different styles one can take a hold on. The ideas expressed were all so different and unique, it was just great to look at some quality art. The workshop with Jesse Reno was really neat too because he gave me a really different perspective on working. He showed us that you can just start something and see how it goes from there, then perfect it.

5. I find this question to be the worst, because oh no! I don't know what I want to do it ten years. I'm going to live in a castle on my private island, but not the island you would think of. No, not tripical, this island is covered in ice, with penguins and everything. I will invite everyone to wonderful parties in my castle and serve strawberries dipped in powdered sugar to match the white floors (in case people spill of course). I will have a little plane so I can fly to Spain when I want to sell my art. Oh yeah, for a hobby I will face paint people who are willing to fly to my castle and pay me in puppies. I'm going to have lots of dogs. I will give them each a name that ryhmes with art (fart, part, start, heart, cart, bart, chart, mart, nart, zart, lart, wart, yart, dart, gart, ect.). They will make sure the penguins don't eat out of my frozen vegitable garden. I'm really excited for my future.

(PS. I really see myself having adventures, having a job, creating life long friendships, and of course, making art :])

"Do or do not, there is no try."

Yoda

(One wise MAN)

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I'm really happy right now, I just got threeish ideas for the rest of my pieces for the month! Basically it has to be done in a weekish, and that sucks, but I'm hoping my joy will help me finish them. Really they were ideas I had at the beginning of the year and forgot about. I'm glad I found them!

Physics and art

Trying to find any kind of inspiration to do my physics lab due tomorrow that I've been prolonging for almost a week, I googled physics and art.

I found a website of flow visualization.

It looks pretty cool.

It's actually overall pretty cool.

They make the flow of fluids visible and beautiful.

Some of the stuff they have is really exciting.

March pieces

Breeeeaaaakkkk

This spring break was really nice, obviously because it was a break.

I'm really glad that this break I took the time to start a few more pieces and do more sketches than I usually make time for. It was really fun actually when I got started on some things, but then they didn't all turn out, which is nice to know that I need to work on certain things.

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Concentration

The center of my concentration is shadows and how they can make things clear while also hiding those exact same thing. I'm focused on the way shadows create life and reality but are so opaque, muddling that truth so easily. I want to find ways that make shadows important in their roles to an idea and not just simply a shadow.

bloggin

Castles

This one kind of frustrates me. It isn't that I don't like it, but I'm really angry with the arm. It DEFINITELY looks awkward and unnateral. You can barely tell it's an arm, it looks like a stick coming up from the ground. It was really difficult because that was how it looked from the picture I did it from and I worked it as much as I could, but could never seem to get it right. I also feel like it may need more sand around the castle, but I'm not too sure. I was trying to show the way shadows correspond with the past in terms of the development in childhood- like they make is simple but carry a weight. I don't really know about that, but really what I really liked about the picture was the shadows the person and sandcastle created. They're so bold, but I feel like I should make them even bolder, they seem to fade more than I would like now that I really look at them. Even though the castle is right front and center without any interesting composition, I like it. I found it pleasing to me to see a central image that didn't completely draw in your eye. The piece does not have too much flow or movement but I feel like it has harmony. I am pleased with how simple it is and how I don't have the urge to add in a whole bunch of unnecessary details that would only distract from the image.

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Wonder

This one was from The Whistling Season project, but I decided to use it in my concentration because it, for the most part corresponds with shadows. I feel like the shadows look a little toostiff though- which wasn't exactly what I was looking for in the picture. I feel like the posture and face of the boy are odd too, they don't seem natural or relaxed, which was also another thing I really was hoping to portray. I do though, like the contrast that I was able to get, this picture is a little bright, but I was happiest with the way the face and neck turned out value wise. I think though I should have let the shadows in his cheek creep onto his face more. With this piece involving shadows I was kind of looking at how they can hide a part of a person, and that's definitely not easily seen by the viewer.

Raphael

This was a while ago, but it just came to mind when I was thinking about the Portland Art Museum today.

I think we went about two months ago when it had been there for a while, and by it I mean: The Woman With The Veil.

And really it was beautiful, it was actually really neat.

We bought our tickets in advanced and when we went we all crowded into a small room.

At first I couldn't see the painting beyond the crowd of people, so I read some history on Raphael, which was pretty cool.

I'm pretty positive that it was the first time it had ever been out of Italy, at least it was the first time it had been to Oregon, which made it a special event.

When I saw it, I was actually blown away.

I can't even fathom how carefully he managed the skin and the dress, it was beautiful.

I'm glad I had the opportunity to see it, and now I want to go back to the museum and see what other new exhibits they have!

new

I've changed my concentraion.

I did a while ago actually.

so now its shadows, so far nothing special of deep or anything, but I will work on that when i have a good enough idea. Right now I will just do what I like, which is basically shading, as lame as that is

Portfolio Day

Yesterday I went to three schools, I actually wish I could have done more for some different opinions, but I had a city league game...

• First I went to Parsons Paris. I didn't realize it was in Paris until I had already been waiting in line, and the line was really short so I was like ok thats cool, Paris Idaho. Then I saw it was France, I don't think I can go to France. But anyways, the guy focused on my one sketchbook of the cabbage, he liked that. That one made me happy, he liked my stuff.
• Then I went to Parsons New York. There was no line, which was excellent! The lady said my stuff looks like they would be good for illustrations and tied together. I'm not really sure about that, but she was probably the most helpful and had the most to say about everything.
• Last I went to Pratt MWP. They were kind of awk, but it was good. They said my life drawings are too stylistic and I need to focus more on proportions and shape of the human body. I agreed. They said I need to do more life draws, which is good, and not draw from pictures. That's like all i do though, so yeahhhh

I though over all the day was very helpful :]

So far

With this piece I'm not sure if it's too busy or not or if the roots are defined enough. I'm not really sure if its done really but I like it for the most part

I just painted these looking at the trees across the street from my house, then went over them in oil pastels, I kind of like the messy-ness and easy look of it, but I'm not sure.

I think I'm going to put in shadows to define the placements of the trees and then defined roots, all connecting to each-other, but I'm not completely sure..