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 :] :] :]