I wake up with the birds

I have always been the person who woke up before or as the sun came up. I dont know why, but I'm the kind of person who doesn't want to miss a lick of day. The only problem with my early bird situation, its not very often that I'm able to hang at sleep overs. I usually the first one sleep and I'm always getting pranked. When this happens, I always remember how I'll never miss a sunrise.

Q3 Advanced Art

​In quarter 3 I had many difficulties. I had already made up my mind that I couldn't draw and everything I did would come out horrible. My full body drawing was misplaced and That was my biggest accomplishment. I think the things I learned most this quarter was how to do shading and shadowing to make the most accurate drawing. Trying to portray realism was difficult because while drawing a persons already has a sense and idea of how they think that figure and or object looks like. I kept a repetitive saying in my head that Ms.Hull said to us she said" draw what you see not what you think is there." That is the only thing that kept me going in this project. My self portrait had to be the task that I used that saying the most. I kept saying I'm pretty sure that is what I look like, but turned out the final product looked nothing like me. I then started over and drew exactly what I seen, the project came out just the way I wanted it to, just like me. This quarter has been a challenge but I learned a lot from it that is the most beneficial.

Self Portrait Second edition 
My still life Photo
 
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The very first realistic drawing of our hands. 

This is the first try to my self portrait. 

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This is the large version on my bottle. This is the smaller version of a different bottle. 














Night Run

We made a quick run to Cvs tonight, i'm in a strange and hyper place that may or may not be medicine or lack there of related. annnnyway I ended up sprinting past patricia at break neck speeds (did i say that right?) and she caught up with me later.

Mathew Walker's Portfolio

My work represents me and how I try. As I know I might not be the best artis but I try my best and what separates me from a lot of people is that knowing that i am not good I still try. This that you see is what I was able to produce  
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Drawing of my ode
Drawing of my ode
The first photo below was photoshopped to show that no one flower shines brighter than the other.

The second photo was taken to show that even though the world is starting to loose a lot of trees there are still some that are here.

The last photo shows different warm colors over a garden to represent spring 
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Crush

​You ever had a crush and loved them ever since the day you met them. that's how i feel. 
but i won't act upon it and when the opportunity passes me i'll kick myself in the chest and regret it later.

January 4th, 1993

​The time of January 4th, 1993 several events had occurred. Time Magazine man of the year was Bill Clinton while dark Matter was announced by STSCI.  Australian politician & South African coach died all these events happened on the day I graced the world.

NC Here I Come.

SO! Im way to excited for school to start up. I am officially very proud to say that I am a Benett Bell. Today my mother and I went to the Human Trafficking Conference that my future major was hosting. I was so happy that I was able to meet most of my teachers and the directors of my major. Tomorrow, I go in for my belle begining program and im little nervous about that. Oh! I always found out that because my GPA is above a 3.3 I am allowed to stay in the honors dorm as a incomming freshwoman :D

Reflective Post

So far, I started my tumblr for my character. I decided to make a tumblr instead of a twitter because a twitter just seemed to... immediate. It's harder than I thought it would be to make a social networking page for a 6 year old. Everyone says its normal, but maybe I'm overthinking it. To me, it's ridiculous. My mind is too technical I figure. anyway, the only thing about starting a tumblr is that my mind takes perfection seriously within the customization of the page, instead of the blogs or posts or whatever. So now, I must focus on the actual story that I'm trying to tell. 

Kids Menu

The other day my mom and I ate a diner. I saw that they had a coloring kids menu. I know I'm officially an adult now, but I love coloring. I immediatley asked the waitress if I could get a kids menu. She looked at me kind of weird and brought one over, however she forgot the crayons. I asked her
"May I have some crayons please?"
Then she really looked at me weird and just left to get me some crayons. My mom said she was embarassed to be with me (and I don't blame her) but I love coloring. In fact, for my birthday I got two kids coloring books with a pack of crayons. It was my best (and only present). I started to color the kids menu as my mom sat there bored. I asked if she would like to color with me, which she did. I then asked for her opinion on which color to color spongebob, since there was no yellow crayon. She looked up at me and said,
"I'm not going to have a conversation with you about what color you should color Spongebob."
She put her head back down and continued to color until our meal came.

Dandelions

I haven't posted anything the past two days because I was away and couldn't. So here is me making up those two posts I missed. Yesterday I was at a hotel walking around and I came across a bunch of dandelions. When I was younger I would try so hard to blow all the white fuzzies off the dandelion in one blow but never could. This always really upset me because all my friends and family could easily do this but I never could. I would persistently keep on trying to blow the fuzzies off, yet after a 5-8 tries I would be out of breath and would just give up. Wondering if I would still encounter this problem now I took a deep breathe in and blew. I blew all the fuzzies off the dandelion in one blow! I was so happy. I started running around plucking dandelions and blowing the fuzzies off them.  I defeated my long childhood struggles and wanted to pluck every dandelion insight and blow the fuzzies off all of them. However, I eventually ran out of breath and decided I would another time.  

It happened

I left the bathroom stall and waited for my friend, Heather, to come out. I stood in front of the mirror like any teenage girl, messing with my hair and lip gloss.  After 5 minutes, I realized she wasn't in a stall, so I walked outside to look for her.  I soon realized that she wasn't in the amusement park at all! In fact, none of the group was. I quickly called Vernon to find out what had happened.  After missing my call, he called me back.

"Uh, who's this?
"Vernon, it's Taylor."
"Taylor who? Oh right. Why are you calling me from-" I heard a muffled sound as he turned around in the car to look for me. "Oh." "OOHHH!"

They were pulling out of the parking lot, never noticing that I wasn't there. I was almost left in an amusement park and that's how it happened. 

Last Benchmark Reflective Post

During the two week gap before the main event occurs, Claire simply acts as though Natalie's harsh words and rumors are not affecting her on the outside.  In school, Claire tries to ignore the people pestering her and bottles all of her emotions up inside. After all, there is no one Claire can turn to anyway because everyone is so caught up in the lies that Natalie is spewing about her.  Claire feels even more alienated then she did before.  In her most recent post on GupShup, Calire says, "I am stuck in a whirlpool of pain. And I swear, it's all because of you. But you'll get yours in the end, I promise."  Claire feels helpless when it comes to the suffering that she is experiencing from the actions of Natalie.  However, she knows that within about a week, Natalie will get what's coming to her. 

Benchmark- What I've done so far

In the past couple days not much has happened in the twitter.  Yesterday I made one tweet, and today I will be making another tweet, but it has to be during the middle of the night because that's when it occurred in the story.  Then of course I have to deal with just writing tweet for two months where the main character just writes messages.  *sigh*

Q3 BenchMark

 January : Hand-Pencil


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       For this  I was kind of unsure about how to do this, but once I got my shading right, it was pretty much cool. Personally I don't like my hands because I have very dark knuckles and I made sure that you could see that in my photo. This is one of my beginning photos, my shading does get better.


 January : Self Portrait-Pencil

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        This is my self portrait that I drew,  I hadn't got the technique  of shading and such down, so its still a bit raw.  So the different things I started to pick up and recreate were my nose, the way my hair was going to be  put into bun, which hair was sticking up, the sides of my glasses, the way my mouth curved down on my top lip  etc.  Byt he time I finished and thought I did a good job, but really , I look more like a grandma.





February : Full Body-Charcoal



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            This is one of my favorite things to draw because it gave the realistic feelings of being in a professional art class, drawing our model. it was cool that we all did it from different angles and used charcoal as our medium. I also like this because this is where I start to find my artistic patterns, I draw boldly. This is the first of my projects to be done with my style to it.

 February :Still Life



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 This to me was the hardest to draw because you had to look at every single detail in the picture. For example, I chose where I wanted to cut off my picture at, but I forgot that on the other side of the skull at the bottom there is Orange vase that reflects of the metal paint can. In here you can also see my artistic style, the boldness of the pieces.

March :Clear (Small)


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March :Clear (Big)




Clear Big


 I was really surprised when I pulled it this off, and it actually came out nice.  in this bigger one you can see the boldness of my artwork and the personality of the painting.


For this project my artist that inspired me was Andy Warhol, an American Painter who was a leading figure and well known for the visual art movement, pop art.
 Some of his famous painting include the Campbell's Tomato Soup, the lovely Marilyn Monroe , or the late great Michael Jackson.


      Andy Warhol and Nicki Minaj inspired me to do these three pieces pieces simply because I love them both. From their style to their way of life,  and ultimately the talent that they share with the public. These are, "The Artists' That Inspire".



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