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.