almost over

HI! its been so long since ive been on my blog. ANYWAYS... the end is almost near and my plan to take my time on my art instead of rush through it has kind of bit me in the butt. Now i have alot of catch-up to play. but i think i've grown enough as an artist that working fast isn't having giving me all the problems it used to. Ive been able to create more of a vision and execute it the way i had in mind, instead of just letting the paint or the pastels take over. I feel like i have alot more control of my art and i am happy to say i feel like i'm ending the year on a high note. 

January

My concentration is Fariy Tales. I only have one piece because I'm trying this new thing where i just take my time so I don't end up with one okay one and then one really sucky one. This one is Cinderella, and the other one will be Hansel and Gretel done with Encaustics.  

i feel like a broken record

I'm starting to feel like all i do on here is complain about art. This winter break, i thought i had everything under control. I was taking picture all through out my vacation, had planned what i was going to do for my concentration piece when i got home...then, i got home. and then it was sunday night. and now its 3:42 and i feel like my eyeballs are going to fall out of their sockets. Re-looking at my pictures, i realized they weren't as good as i hoped. Then, when i was working on my concentration piece i made myself start over with the intent that this one was going to be better than the other ones i have done. i was wrong. who knows if this even makes sense. i think my brain is dead. night art class, see you tomorrow

strugglee

After I finally chose a concentration topic (fairy tales), I thought it would be easy to start doing art. Wrong. It was even MORE of a struggle for me to actually get down and start making things. All i could think was "this is the real deal, this stuff has to be cool", and it totally threw me off. In the end, the two pieces I came out with were polar opposites, but what I was really trying to focus on was that my art didn't end up looking like pages out of a story book. To do this I think I'm going to keep my pieces more on the realistic/not cartoon-ie side so they don't stat looking like illistrations.  

 I came across these vouge fairy tale pictures on the internet and thought they were cool in that they obviously represent a fairy tale but it isn't like a Disney storybook picture. This is what i'm going for in my art too

concentration

i can't choose a concentration. first i wanted to do something with age but now i think i've settled and am going to do fairy tales. i'm the most indecisive person ever though so i'm sure i'll change it a bunch more times before the end of the year. this is so much harder than i thought!

meow

There are a few things i want to touch....first of all, concentrations. I can't believe it is time to pick them already! I am the most indecisive person ever so I know picking a concentration is going to be a struggle with a capital S. Secondly, I'm starting to stress out about our self portraits. I've had a lot of fun doing mine though because it is much different than everything else I've done. I've been playing with gel medium photo transfers and transparency photo transfers and I would love to play with both of those more in whatever concentration I pick. I'm just feeling a bit out of my comfort zone with my portrait just cause I'm trying something new. Lastly, while trying to get inspiration for my hat, I came across this picture and I fell in love.

so cute!!!

 I had so much fun taking pictures on Wednesday! My favorite place was at the farm- I loved the early morning lighting and quirky things there. Here two I took there that I thought were kinda cool... I still feel like a real amateur photographer though!


...and lets not forget about Princess Sparkle!