Kinda Interesting Stuff

YAY! Half-way done with my surrealist self-portrait! Should be finished with it in a couple days. Then I'll be off camping with the whole family, then school! Felt like sharing some of my favorite quotes:

"It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which... you may find really marvellous ideas." (Leonardo da Vinci)

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures." (Vincent Van Gogh)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create." (Albert Einstein)

'Ello :)

Hi peoples of the awesome art world! I got my schedule and for first try I have Ap Art second period. Looking forward to the class with y'all!

"Two Twelves, Two Nines"

I'm FINALLY finished with my Shoe Project!!! Yay!!! :) I put a bunch of time and detail into this project; It was 1 am when I actually finished it last night. Oh, and in case anyone is wondering I named the piece, "Two Twelves, Two Nines" because my brother and my Dad both wear size 12 shoes, and my Mom and I both wear size 9. So here it is (Left to Right- Brother, Dad, Me, Mom):

I don't have much to say about these shoes. I'm just very happy how they turned out and that I'm done with them. Had a great day today and saw "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in 3D with Leslie. :):D<3 I have a clear idea of my surrealism self-portrait and I'm excited to start it and eventually finish.

Pencil Drawings

These are the type of drawings I generally do on a more regular basis. Both of these drawings I drew this summer and stayed up til 3 am making them. I'm very much a night-owl, and whenever I get started drawing, it's very difficult to stop me. ;)

So these two drawings are of Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter in "The Prisoner of Azkaban" movie. I picked a kinda sad scene to draw out (Hermione is crying), and I would explain what happened, but it would kinda be a spoiler, and most people have probably seen the third movie by now, but just in case I won't explain the scene. Besides, I think if people have seen the movie, you'll know what scene I'm showing. 

I'm kinda disappointed how the color didn't show up that well... :P Hermione's face is kinda messed up too; I was looking at a picture while drawing this, and her face was kinda hard to see- but I did the best I could have. I personally like Ron the best in my drawing- it really captures the way his face actually was. I was trying to find the picture I was looking at, but for some reason I've had trouble relocating it- I had to search a good deal to find it in the first place too. 

 Above is the same picture obviously, but I edited it to be a gray scale.

 Lastly, I was inspired by Rihanna's "California King Bed" to draw this piece. The lyrics on the lower right hand side is from her song. I based the position of the girl on the line mentioning "reaching out my finger." The lyrics in the upper left corner is from Christina Perri's song called "Distance." Since both of these songs where involving Distance, it seemed only proper to name the drawing that. As I was drawing the girl I realized her dress reminded me of fairies, more specifically the fairy godmother in "Pinocchio," but I wasn't looking at anything while making this. My only issue with this is her feet, and her shoes that remind me of ballet slippers. It kinda looks like she is standing on her tiptoes like ballerina's would and I wasn't originally going for that, but I guess it's good enough. And finally, I thought I should add that the whole scenery with the stars and sky also represent Distance in a different way. 

And one more thing! Really REALLY close to finishing my shoe project, just need to do some last finishing touches and the background!

Oh, Happiness:)

#1 Thing that I'm happy about right now is that I finished my Mystery Bag Project! So, here it is! :D

^This was before I glued anything down by the way. Right when I saw the circular lego knew that it was going to be my focal point right away. The colored squares that you see in the middle of the cardboard is a bunch of erasers that I cut up into little pieces. The plastic container in the upper right corner is melted crayons and below it is there wrappers I ripped up. On the lower right corner is an eye glass holder, which I also tore apart. Lastly I folded and cut the pink foam into leaf like shapes.

 ^So this is the final product! As you can see I changed the direction of the erasers and I think it highlighted the focal point better. (Also this was taken with a flash and the picture below it wasn't). I was inspired by elements when I was making this piece. You can probably guess how I pictured the elements, but I'll point them out anyway. The blue area is water, on the whole left side is earth or plants, the giant circle lego surrounded by red, orange and yellow is fire or like the sun, the melted crayons in the upper right corner could be ice or clouds, and below it is the brown area which also could be earth (like sand or dirt).

 oh ya, I just added some numbers and letters to the middle blue section with a blue colored pencil because I honestly forgot about that guideline until now.

#2 Reason why I'm happy is that I just went to Target and got a green lap desk (that matches my bed) that I can use on my bed to draw or do homework because I don't like sitting on the actual desk right next to my bed. And, I also got blue curtains that match parts of my bedspread. My bedroom was remolded a summer or two ago and it went from a twin bed and a pink themed room, to two different shades of purple on the walls, and a leafy and flowery bright lime green (with a little blue an purple) bedspread on a full sized bed. My room finally feels complete. Now I just need to bug my parents to let me design more rooms... :)


#3 Reason why I'm happy is that I'm almost finished with my AP Lang summer book dealio; I have a whole list of books I'm super excited to read next, and lastly I'm eating my favorite cereal for dinner and I think I'm gonna watch Harry Potter sometime soonish. Aren't blogs great? They let you rant about everything you feel like, and people don't even have to read them, but the process of typing all this stuff just makes me happy too. :) :D

A Little Update

To anyone who cares- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was amazing, so go see it!!! :) :D

I've been working on my Mystery Bag project like a crazy person today. Now that I'm done arranging giant lego's, melting crayons, and cutting up erasers, I actually have to glue everything on! I've noticed that whenever I make abstract art I try to make it secretly look like something. This time I'm going to use all my large pieces to make a nature like theme -- I have foam that kinda looks like leaves, some fabric that will be water, the erasers and ripped up papers could be sand. I'm really excited to see what the end product will be with all the paint and everything finished. I'll post pics as soon as I finish!

Harry Potter!!!

If you all didn't know, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan girl, so since I'm super duper excited to go the midnight premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," I decided to make this as a little remembrance of this enormous finale. (Personally I think the texture isn't showing up that well on the computer. I have a Harry Potter Calendar so I got the general picture of Harry from that, but I tried to make it my own a bit...)

 Yes, I will dress up with my Ron Weasley t-shirt, I'll have my crazy Hermione-like hair down; I'll be wearing my key chain golden snitches on either a belt or purse strap; I may have a lightning bolt scar on my forehead too, but oh well- I will be accompanied by one of my friends as Dumbledore, and my brother will be wearing a small Gryffindor robe. Can't wait for the exciting night! 

And I desperately need to start on some art homework... :P

P.S.- Thank you again Leslie for getting me pretty much every piece of Harry Potter merchandise I just mentioned above! :)

Shaded Self Portrait

So here it is! I finally got around to posting it! :)

 (The first one is scanned, the second one is taken from my camera.)

Drawing 1 is over :( But Ap is starting! :)

Oh my goodness! One more day we have to survive! :O *gasp!*

Today in Drawing I got some stuff back, and turned some things in. I decided to scan my eye drawing- so here it is:

I have always really loved drawing eyes. Hair and eyes are my favorite features to draw. Since I'm used to realistic things, decided I would change it up and make a surrealist self-portrait. I think it will be pretty fun. Once I take a decent picture of my shaded-self portrait I will post that too. Very happy that it may be able to count as a project in Ap as well!

The Sunday without sun

So what have I been doing on this coldish (doesn't feel like summer at all) type of day? 

Drawing of course! :)

Been working on my shaded self-portrait for Drawing 1-- which means I have basically shut myself in my room, while also listening to music non-stop. No matter what art class I take, I always manage to get behind. I'm hoping that will change soon. 

Actually somewhat excited for school tomorrow. Four more days, four more days!

Hello World...

So I am finally done editing my official art blog after working on it for about 3 hours. Wow. No exaggeration people. 

I actually was inspired to make a blog a long time ago because I watched the movie "Julie & Julia," but of course that went no where because I didn't have a clear vision of what to write about, and I'm no cook like the movie characters. The fact that we had to do this for school just made it super easy! 

Super excited to get right into my summer art projects, no matter how stressful it may be to get things done perfectly. So happy that the class I have always wanted to take is here. :)