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.