AP 2-D FINAL

this is my final blog update of my senior year and forever!!!

Good bye everybodyyyy!!!

Advice: Dear future AP students- pick a concentration YOU LOVE. you are dealing with it ALL year and have to make twelve pieces of art. Have fun with it!! Try new things and different techniques, don't play safe! Also, do not save all your pieces to the last night, you will not produce your best work, and you will be overly stressed!! Take advantage of the time given in class to work, the materials so kindly provided, and the opinion and critique of the teacher and students. And last but not least, enjoy the AP art show. That is your time to shine and show off your hard work and great art.

Favorite Piece:

My two favorite pieces of the year were my cars and feet. I really liked the style I did them both in: black and white and with intense contrasting highlights. The cars are my favorite favorite and the feet are second most liked. I chose to keep them for myself and not sell them because I am proud of them :]

Learn: I learned alot about myself as an artist this year. For instance, I learned that I do have talent!! I was recognized with one of the NAHS scholarships and that was definitely a boost to my confidence. I learned that I can power out a fairly decent piece of art the day before, and I also learned that the more time and detail and effort I spent in a piece of art, the prouded I was and the more accomplished I felt. I also learned how much I am going to miss my art family next year.

Event/Activity I got the most out of this year: I thought that the bookmaking was so much fun!!! I still have my sketchbook and love it :] it is so fun to make art in something that is art itself!! Also, I really thought the Scholastic Art Awards were really fun. It was an amazing feeling to win regional art awards for the pieces I had worked so hard on and was proud of. Seeing all of the pieces of art of other award winning students was pretty inspirational too. Probably my favorite memory of the year was the downtown fieldtrip in Portland. It was so much fun to run around downtown with a camera and explore the city and take fun pictures and meet new people and visit art galleries!! It was a great experience. And lastly, I loved the Ap Art Show. It felt amazing to talk about my art to so many people and showcase my hard work!!!

10 years: In ten years I see myself as either a nutritionist/ personal trainer or a graphic artist, working at a magazine. I will be married and live in a cute little house with a cute little front porch. I will either be living in Washington or Oregon, because I love the Northwest and the rain and the green trees too much to part!!! I will still be making art of course.

Poem: I Carry Your Heart With Me - e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart) i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the budand the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Yay!
We did it!
Our twelve pieces are finished and done and shown and loved by all, and i am so happy now because so much stress has been lifted off of my shoulders. i have never spent SO MUCH time in the art room before...last week was so crazy and so hectic, but so worth it.
i am so proud of everyone and all the time and effort they put into their pieces. we should be proud of ourselves as a class because we all created beautiful art to be so proud of.
i think that the art show was such a success, i had many people tell me how great it was. it was nice to after so many months of working on our concentration to present it and show it off to show everyone what we had been creating!
i am a little sad that it is over and done with...and i don't have next year to look forward too. but i think that i will probably come back, if possible, to see the art show!!
i am pretty satisfied with how my work came out. i am proud that i disciplined myself at the end of the month to finish. it was fun to have people look at your art and ask questions.
but what now? what are we going to do for the next month!?
yay to all, i am very proud.

What I'm Working on Now...

I am in the middle of a water color painting of the reflections of the clouds and mountains and rocks upon the sand at the beach, and I am just now starting a graphite drawing of these cliffs that I took a picture of on a hike!

NEXT i am gonna do a black and white painting of cars in the city and the reflections of lights off of them and onto the city streets. yaayy

Buckling Down

What is it? Two weeks till the AP art show case? I really need to buckle down and get all my work done, but I want to make sure that it is my BEST work. I want to be able to have time to go over and work on the ones of my concentration that I am not totally proud of. We have two weeks to create three new pieces of art and perfect all the rest. I am starting to get stressed out and freak out a bit. I have no time to come in after school and work because I have a tennis match EVERY day after school this week.

Something to look forward to though...a week or two after the AP artshow case I leave for Paris for a week in a half. I AM SO EXCITED. I am going to go to alot of art musuems, so if anyone knows of any certain ones that are really good, let me know :] it is always good to get inspiration from the best of the best.
good luck to everyone cramming for the artshow, I know i need it!

March Concentration

Spring Break

So, pretty much I am part of the kind of family who never goes ANYWHERE for spring break. it is very very disappointing. Last year, surprisingly, I went to San Francisco (pretty much the most amazing place in the world)...however this was just because of my little sister's golf tournament. I was still so happy though, and it was exciting to get outside of Lake Oswego and actually do something!

Well, since I am going to Paris in May with my best friend and her family, my parent's would not let me go to Cabo with all of my friends. Bummer, I know. But it sorta makes sense. It is just annoying that everyone is going somewhere hot and fun and I am stuck in LO. I have only one friend who is here with me, so thank god for that. Also, I will have plenty of time to make lots of art and focus alot on tidying up my concentration.

I was talking to my mommy about all the art I get to do this spring break and she got all excited and said we were going to do mommy/daughter bonding, but by making art together. So I am excited for that.

Mmk, gooooodbye, muah.

Art Blog

I was doing alot of thinking this weekend and lately, I realized, that I am seeing everything in reflections. I guess that is helpful because it is my concentration, but even though I am seeing everything in relflections, whether that be the reflection of the sun playing upon someones face, or my face reflecting upon my friends sunglasses. However, even though all I see are examples of relflections, I am still really stuck on what to do for my next two concentration pieces. It is really hard for me to come up with ideas :/ also, it is hard to do life drawings of them, because I don't want to sit in front of a puddle for ten hours. I think I am gonna start carrying my camera around with me from now on, so when I start seeing reflections I can try to capture the moment.

If anyone has ideas that would be nice, because I am really struggling. I have already done a self-portrait, relfection of sun onto the ocean, swans on a lake, feet in a puddle, and light off of cds.
SO PLEASE HELP. k thanks.

This One Artist I Sorta Know

My grandparents live out in Wilsonville kinda off of Stafford where there is LOTS of land and not many houses, and they live on this huge piece of land kinda like a farm. Well, they have this huge barn where they store lots of stuff, but they also let this one guy named something Blakely (I think??) use it as his art studio. When I was younger I remember wandering through the darkened shadows of the barn and looking up in awe towards the artwork he created. I can't seem to remember his name, which I feel awful about, and I am too lazy to go find my mother or call my grandma and ask.

But anyways, he always used the BIGGEST canvases, it was crazy. The huge barn was just splattered in paint as well and he made it such a great environment for creating art. His art is very impressive and brings me alot of inspiration. He does not use the barn as much anymore since he has his own studio in Portland now, but many of his paintings are still in there and it is very fun and inspiring to look at them.

Well, anyways what made me think of him was that my grandma is making me go to the opening of his art show! And I am very excited. I just gotta think about what his name is and remember so I can tell everyone and maybe upload some of his great artwork on here.
Alright that is all :] :] :]

Concentration Critique

Concentration Statement:

My concentration is focused on the idea of reflections. The artwork that I am creating will explore the ideas of finding reflections in normal and not so normal places: a mirror, surface of water, a teapot, etc. I hope to play with the lighting and color that is reflected across surfaces and objects to stretch the idea of reflections. I will use different media and images to express my opinion and views on reflections.

(statement still a work in progress)



***My first concentration piece is a contour line drawing of a reflection of myself in a mirror. (above) This is definitely not my best work, but I still am sort of drawn to it. There is way to much white space I think, and I am still working on it. I think that if maybe I added some color the piece would be more interesting to the eye. My drawing focuses on line most I believe, because the drawing consists of only one line. I enjoyed creating this piece of art, regardless of whether I am proud of it or not. It definitely differs from most of the work I create. Usually I stray away from portraits, especially self-portraits. There is not much movement in the piece, but I feel as though your eyes move across the piece as a whole by following the lines. This drawing is still a work in progress, so please give me any needed feedback and criticism! ***






***My second concentration piece is of a reflection of jewelry into a portable little mirror. So far this is probably my favorite piece that I have made. It is really simple and detailed, which is sometimes my favorite kind of art. There are still some small minor changes I would like to make to this, like making the mirror seem more cemented to the ground, because as of now it looks awkward, which is embarrassing. I do not want to change the white space, I think that it really adds to the piece as a whole. I think that there is a nice unity within my piece from the necklace on the ground to the necklace reflected in the mirror. I think that I demonstrate some good value within this drawing as well. There is not any movement, however, your eyes follow the necklace nicely through out the piece. Please give feedback!!***









***My third concentration piece shown on my blog is a water color painting of the sun and shadows reflecting across ocean water and sand. The sun was coming down so the colors of the sunset in the sky played nicely across the ocean. I was at the beach with Linnea and I was taking lots of pictures because the setting was just so beautiful and I found it so intriguing that reflections could occur on surfaces like sand, as well as water. I am not really fond of this piece, which is frustrating, but I am still working on making it how I like it. This differs greatly from the two drawings I did above, especially since I chose to not use a mirror for these reflections and I tried to use alot of color. I used a sense of color and value to design reflections throughout the piece. I feel as though there is a sense of balance between the reflection of the person across the sand and the reflection of the sun across the water. There is just something about this piece that doesn't seem right to me though, so please help me figure it out. K thanks. ***








Thank you for all the criticism and feedback, it is greatly appreciated :] (don't feel bad about hurting my feelings!)

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I know that for our blog updates we are supposed to either upload pictures of our artwork or write about something that has to do about art, but im gonna write about college...but it actually has to do with art. Like the art programs at the schools im deciding between.

So I went to Eugene this weekend to visit some of my friends and I was talking to one of them about the art programs at University of Oregon. I do not know what I want to study next year, all I know is that I want to take art classes and english classes because those are my strengths. Oregon has good journalism classes I want to take, but I do not know that much about the art program, but people there I was talking to said that they really really enjoyed it, so that made me more excited about it. I just gotta research it more.
http://art-uo.uoregon.edu/

My second choice for college is USF (University of San Francisco). I think I have been wanting to go to this school since I was a little girl. But I probably won't because I cannot afford to fly home for holidays and things, let alone pay for tuition (since I gotta pay for college myself). But I am really interested in the art program there, and it gets me all excited!!
http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/ug/visual_arts/

I get really stressed out thinking about next year and all the stuff I gotta do to get ready for college, and it just seems silly to me...especially since i have two concentration pieces to finish :/ !!!!

WOOOO

herrrooo
sooo i'm updating my blog tonight,
and I was walking around today and everywhere I looked I saw reflections...which is so weird, because lately I have been having panic/anxiety attacks over what the heck i was doing with my concentration! But I realized that I just need to let loose and have fun with this. Like today, the sun was out and there were reflections EVERYWHERE. Because the light was playing cool tricks across everything. I need to keep my eyes peeled for reflections in unusual places. I am working on a painting of a little girl jumping in puddles and I am very excited. If anyone has any reflection ideas please let me know!
Alright I should probably go to bed now, I am excited for art class and to keep working on my painting.
byeeeeee

mehhh

So I guess I am gonna evaluate myself so far for first semester.
At the beginning of the year I think I kinda struggled to keep up with the Jesse Reno and A to Z and Scholastic Challenge projects because I missed alot of days when I had swine. But I think I finally caught up. I am going to be truthful and say that I do not like any of my concentrations at all. Okay thats a lie I like the mirror one thats reflecting pearls. I guess I am just not impressed with my own work at all and need to pick it up. :[ boo. Oh well it is second semester now, time to turn it around and get going!

Hellloooooo

here are a bunch of examples of pictures I took when I went to the beach. I really like the colors and the reflections across the sand and the water. People should help me decide which one to paint. Otayyy let me know what you think :] :]

Concentration/Portfolio Day/Scholastic/Whistling Season

For my concentration I am working on reflections, and I am also doing the Whistling Season thing too, so I am gonna try to make it work together haha. I am thinking I am going to do a painting of swans and their like fluttering wings in a lake, and try to have a reflection of that! I was thinking of painting the actual swans and collaging the reflection..I dunno, we will see what happens.

I went to the portfolio day thing. I saw three colleges, Corcoran or something? In Washington D.C., that lady was my favorite, she gave me great feedback which made me happy haha. Then I saw the San Fran Art Institute because my mom made me, because I might be attending USF next year and she is jacked that it was close by. That lady gave me lots of helpful artists to look at and a book to buy which was nice. The third college I looked at was the Pratt one, and the ladies there were not very impressed with my scholastic portfolio haha, they wanted me to have more self portraits, and they kept talking about ellipses...and drawing brocholli in the fridge...I really dont know what they were talking about. But I think they thought my little portfolio thing was me trying to apply to their school, so it was confusing. But overall it was a great experience.

I am looking forward to the Scholastic Reception, my mommy and grandparents are going, and they are so excited haha.