Finally finished a college application!! whoooooo! CCA would be great to spend 4 years at! today is Sophie's birthday! i did not see her all day because she was out shopping with all her money! we had a wonderful dinner and she got lots of amazing clothes that make her look sexy! i also re arranged my room and its very clean. all in all, a good weekend!

This is a preview of what my thanksgiving weekend was like. i spend my time in the sun at Florida. jet skiing and tanning and playing volleyball. This is the family. It's everyone but Reed and my cousin Blake.

This boy made me really sad when i saw him. this was on our trip we took. He reminds me of my brother a long time ago but thank goodness my brother was never on the streets! he enspires me and i think he tells a cool story. i also think that everyone will interperate this a different way. He could be homless or he could just be spending a day down town. I just wanted to share this image. i like it. He also had no idea i was taking it. i was pretty much being a creeper.

ok!!!! whooooo! im a good girl!! i got my $50 from my moms friend who is a hair stylist!!! i get to be in the poster :D and i finished my self portrait and had a great weekend and for the first time sang alone for the youth group at my church!! great self confidence weekend : ) my hat is taking forever but that ok and its going to be super heavy!!!

ok so i went to the beach this weekend and thought about how i still have to schools camera and ho my house is going to be broken into. Mrs.McBride will sent a secret team of people to find it and take it and i would not even know because im at the beach.... good thing that never happend... anyways it reained like the whole time we were there and the day we left it was sunny. Also i hate being away just for a weekend its so much more stressful than you think it is... plus i had no internet or phone use and was so bored that me and my sister had a dance party! and played old people games. i played uno like 70 times.... you forget how easy that game is till you play it again. life is just so hard! also i have my family portrait... just not printed out... problem... i think yes. :O

Self portrait

i dont know what to do about my self portrait. i want it to be with my dog and i cant pick one or decide if its a good idea or not. please help!!! i love my dog and have wanted to do something with her.

this is a joke i was being a poop to my sister about trying to get my dog to look good and so i was giving her the sass face.... :D

life without cara....

... yah..... thats about it...

Final

Someathing that i would tell an incoming AP student would be to find something early that you want to be your concentration. The best way to do that is to start thinking about it during the summer. Somthing else that would also help would be to bring a camera everywhere you go becasue the more photos you have the more ideas you come up with. Also it is very important to do more then just the four pieces that are due next year becasue you are going to need 12 breath section stuff as well.

My favorite piece that i have done this year is called old age. In this one i really got the feeling that she was looking at you. Here eyes really popped and she disappeared into the background. She really was looking at you and you could fell that she was there. It was also one of everyones favorites when i would ask.

Somethings that i learned about myself this year was that i really dont like computers and that they dont like me either. pretty much they most of the time did not work. and off course wile doing this blog spot the computer was not working with me. But to be seriouse, as an artist i grew a huge amount. i learned how to use new materials and how to look at things in new ways. i also learned how to use everyones skills to my advantage and use it as good competition to make myself better. i loved seeing everyones work throughout the year. i also grew as a person. i learned how to express myself in great ways. i also learned not to put myself so low. it took a wile to bring myself up but i realised that i needed to have confidence in myself to get things done instead of sobbing to myself.

There were so many events that i loved this year it has just been a blast. One thing that i want to do more than we did would be bookmaking becasue i love the idea of having your own book that you make. it makes it more special and you get to make it the way you want it to be. Also i loved learning from Jesse Reno. The workshop was really good. i wish that we could of done it as one big class though. and that we would of been more mixed up. it seemed that everyone that was best friends were put together and i think that we should of been more intermixed because i really did not get to know everyone super well till really late in the year. A also really loved the trip to the beach. i had so much fun! i love the beach. i also really liked the Scholastic Art Awards! it makes me make goals for myself to get scholerships and keys and stuff. it makes you feel good about yourself.

in ten years i want to live in oregon and sell my art! i want to make are everyday and get money for it. i want to live on a farm with hourses and cows and sheep and chickens and cats and dogs and goats and all that farm stuff. to get some extra money i will sell eggs and milk and stuff. that way i will have fun every day.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain

Tattoos on Pigs: A Work of Art or Sick Artist’s Imagination?

” We make money not art”. It is a logo of Wim Delvoye - a Belgian conceptual artist, who thinks that Art doesn’t bring any practical use. That’s why he decided to create unusual works of art, and earn money by selling them. I should say that Wim has rather unconventional imagination and utalitarial perception of art and its function. Drawing tattoos on pigs - is one of his popular projects.He has such a called “Art-Farm” in the suburbs of Beijing with a whole army of farmers, breeding pigs, and painters, drawing tattoos on pigs’ backs. Now Wim has 18 pigs on his Art Farm and 3 artists. Every pig has its own name and the works of art on their backs have the same titles.
The tattoos, which you can see on pigs’ skin reflect the heroes from Disney movies, symbols from Chinese legends and Louis Vuitton designs. Of course, he also draws his own pictures on pigs’ backs and is famous for doing it very quickly.
When a pig becomes mature, it means that time for it to be tattooed has come. To tattoo a pig it’s necessary to sedate it, shave and apply Vaseline to its skin. After the death of such an object of art, pig’s skin turnes into a real masterpiece, which can decorate your house. The dead pigs are skinned and the pictures from their backs in future will be represented on the canvas.
Those, who desire to possess such a work of art, don’t need to buy an alive pig, they can just obtain pig’s skin, which is sold at auction and evaluated rather high. The price for such original sample of modern art is nearly 150.000$. This may strike and even shock you, but there are people who buy these painted skins and feel very proud of them, hanging them on the walls in their bedrooms.The results of Wim’s work are usually exhibited in Art Galleries. An extraordinary artist prefers to show the tattoos, using his alive art objects. The collectors choose the work of art they like most of all and buy it.Many people think it’s a kind of violence to use pigs in this way. But Wim considers, that he saves Chinese pigs from butchers.

this is Susan
you can really see all the layers that she has on this one.
i love the feeling of this one. I feel like the woman is really trapped in the sky.
this one just really pops and it is amazing!!!! one of my new favorites.

i am now in love with Susan Seddon Boulet!! i spent a very long time looking at her book in the art room and read about her. all of her things are about moon Gods and she paints them the way that she seas them. They are very well done i love the way she makes them pop out of the work and how detailed it is. She is alot like Jesse because when i was reading about her she said that when she does not like something she covers it up and leaves the parts that are working. So she has many things going on all at once and so it really makes you want to look at her stuff more. I could look at it for much longer than i did. But i had to get lunch so i stopped. You should look more into her. She does some really sick stuff.

i feel like i cant finish all my school stuff!!!! i have no time and i am so tired. i need to have fun!! but i dont get to because im so bust. i really just want to hit some one or do somthing crazy! i feel like i should do somthing cool with my art but i dont know what to do to make people go wow!! alot i hate that i have to do a blog every week. when i came into AP art i did not want to have to worry about a dumb blog i wanted to make art and make art for a reason. im getting graded down becasue i like never do my blog but thats becasue i dont want to have to log onto the computer that my family wll fight over for four hours and then i finally get to use it and my computer wont even work becasue i dont haver good internet. i cant do a blog every week becaseu i cant stand havng to go through the procces of getting the computer and finding it does not work. A long tie ago people did not have to do a blog to get a good grades they just had to make art. i want to go to an art collage ut wont be able to becasue i cant stand blogging. and i will not get a good grade because i cant do it. i just want to make art and do it because i have a voice through my art and want to show it and make people want to see my stuf. i cant stand using the computer!!!! so why should i have to use it so much to get through my like.

Concentration pieces 2 and 3

The main theme of my concentration is death. I have come up with twelve different ways to die. I will portray these types of death in my work. I have ideas in my head that I want others to see through my work. I do not like death, but don't want people to be scared of it. If I paint things that people made be scared of at first glance, later on they may not be as scared because they have become use to seeing them. I also find it interesting to see different peoples reactions to scarey images made by a teenage girl.

For example the two works here focus on death in the following ways: Temptation and starvation.

Using strong line and value I drew skulls. Instead of using just one skull I chose to use several to focus on how death effects us all. Starvation is one way to die. Animals frequently die of starvation with their bodies left to rot and give back to the earth. I drew these skulls in the art room from observation. The lights created shadows that further exploited the concept of death.

Temptation, the image to the left is an example of another way to die. Falling into temptation, any kind of temptation, can lead to many negative effects. These pieces is drawn with colored pencil. I enhanced the lights and dark's which made it look more stylized so that the viewer could focus on the important aspects of the piece. I found this image in a magazine but it was very different. She was breastfeeding a child, while measuring gold. I was able to take her facial expressions and make it a completely different story. Shape played an important role in creating this composition.

ok so last class i had alot of extra time so i made a doll thing. i think i want to make more of them and create like a tribe. they look alot like indians and they do not have arms or legs but i could give them some and mix it up. If andy one has anything that they dont want laying around that is kinda indian that could fit on a doll bring it and i would love to use it. i really like him and would have a picture of him but no one in my family has a working camera and the cord to one of them does not work so i cant. I wrap then with string and then add colored string to add to it and i found broken bracelets and stuff like that. He also has feathers which are fun and beads. I had alot of fun making them and so when i need that break from an overload of painting work then i think that is what im going to do.

ok well it wont let me add a picture the button is not working. my family is screaming so i think im just going to get off. im so annoyed right now. i have been looking at giraffes and how cool they are i spent 3 hours reading about them and looking at pictures of them. i think i want to paint a picture of one and i am going to do a life drawing of one. im panning on going to the zoo with my dad and do some stuff. i wish i could add a picture but im about to loose my mind.