Blog Feed

  When it comes to art I enjoy letting my art express my feelings and personal interests. When I am drawing or building or painting I like to show who I am through my work. I try hard to make things look good. I want to show myself that I am good at what I do through my own eyes. If I think I did something well, then it doesn’t matter what someone else thinks.

 

    When I work I usually just try to go with the flow. I try hard to fix my mistakes. When I start my work I have a general picture of what I want to make so I base all of my decisions on the original picture and manipulate it until it comes out in a way that I like. I use whatever materials I have that I feel will work to express that particular picture.  My technique constantly changes each time I draw something or build something or do any kind of art. My themes are always based off of things that I like or enjoy. Like swordplay, medieval based mythology and music that I enjoy.

 

    For assignments like these I like to try to draw it however it flows out. I stay in the guidelines and erase when needed but I try to erase minimally because I enjoy the flow of artwork that you just let fall onto the page. Organized work looks good but I think true artwork should simply flow with how you are feeling as you create each piece.

​Menu project: Two drawings inspired by an artist

Week 1 - Hand Drawing 



This first assignment was one of the hardest ones. This is mostly because this is our first assignment in which we focused on "drawing what we see" and shading. We had to draw a picture of our hand exactly how we saw it. It was harder than I thought because of all of the markings on on my hand, creases, and all the shading that I never noticed. It was challenging but I think I did an exceptional job on it.

Week 2 - Self Portrait (8x11/Pencil)



For this assignment we had to hold out a mirror and draw ourselves exactly the way we saw it. I also found this assignment to be challenging. I feel like you never really know how intricate and uniquely designed your face is until you try to duplicate it. However, I feel like this is the assignment I did the poorest on. Although I tried my hardest to draw what I saw, it didn't come out the way that I expected it. But, I did the best the could within the amount of time given.


Week 3 - Self Portrait (24x36)

(Lack of Picture Excused By Ms. Hull)

For this week we had to draw another self portrait but larger. This was even harder than the previous week, because not only did you need to draw everything you saw but you had to enlarge it. By doing this I realized that I'm not the best at drawing self-portraits but I would like to work on it. However, when I was finished this picture before I photographed it, someone threw it out. Fortunately Ms. Hull gave me the ok to not have the picture up.

Week 4 - Full Body 

This week we had to pick a partner and draw them the best we could. This was also very hard because I not only had to focus on the details of my partners face but I also had to focus on the details of his clothes, stance, ect. This one took the most time, and I chose to do this in pencil because I discovered that's what I work best with.


 

Week 5 – Still Life

 The still life drawing was one of the most interesting ones to draw. This is because everyone is looking at the same image but interprets it in their own way. The charcoal however is new to me and very hard to use. I hadn’t practiced how to shade or anything like that so I used it as if it were a pencil. I probably could have used this utensil better, but I have improved on it.

 

Week 6 – Bottle (8x11 Pencil)

 

The clear bottle pencil drawing was my favorite assignment of the quarter. By doing this drawing I discovered talents that I didn’t know that I had. I found out that I actually can shade, well when I use pencil. I feel like I did an exceptional job making the picture of the bottle come to life and look real/3D.

 

Week 7 – Bottle (26x34 Charcoal)

 

In this drawing I just tried to duplicate my last drawing (pencil bottle) but it was harder than I thought. I tried to do the same shading I did in the pencil drawing but it didn’t work out as well. In the end my overall drawing wasn’t as strong as it could have been.

Week 8 - Presentation 
Partner : Taahir Henry 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2205990/Art%20Presentation_Thenry_SDinvil.key

I hate history. They all thinking about the past but I'm thinking about right now and the future. They say history repeats itself but we never do anything to prevent it.

I hate history. They all thinking about the past but I'm thinking about right now and the future. They say history repeats itself but we never do anything to prevent it.

Zack got me to play Mindcraft....I hate that it's kinda fun

Our eyes met and the rain began... Guess that's an omen.

Mr. Kay was absent from his freshman drama class today. And instead of making it a free period for them I decided to make a productive and fun day. I actually taught the class and they actually listened. They finished their scenes and played an improv game or did work they had to do. It was unexpected of me to walk in there today and actually have to "play" the role of a teacher. But it was fun and it was productive and they didn't walk all over me. I feel accomplished. 


Thanks Mean Green for being so awesome!

Apparently, this could be a "severe" allergic reaction to the meningitis vaccine i got so that i could go to college. 
COOL.

Dr.'s appt. at 3:45...
should be TONS OF FUN. 

Good luck at your softball game, girls. 

Unless someone got into a car accident within the next hour, her son was going to die. 

Flyers-Penguins... Wells Fargo Center, not the smartest of ideas to do...

i guess im off punishment , i guess im growing up. 

i guess i went to bed late everyday this week
i guess my room is junky
i guess my homework isnt done

i guess this is what everyone has been talking about
i guess this is what they call a "social life"

i guess only a lunatic could keep up like this

i guess im saying that because im really sleepy
i guess i should have remembered to pray about sleep

but ....
i guess im finally having fun.

I arrived at my home early Sunday morning after sleeping over at a friend's house. To my dismay, my kitten, Raphael, was nowhere to be found. Usually I would walk in to him bounding about the living room, biting and scratching anything and everything he could get his paws on. But not that day.

I began to panic. Had he silently slipped out after my mother when she had left the house earlier that day? Was he locked in a room or closet somewhere in the house? Had he died?

For about an hour, my mom and I scoured our neighborhood with cat food calling for him, looking under cars and the like. But he was nowhere to be found.

When we returned home, I went into my kitchen to check if he had been trapped in the refrigerator (that is my nightmare). As I opened the door to the fridge, I heard a slight sound.

"Raphael?"

The sound grew louder. I followed it through the back door in my kitchen into our very small concrete backyard.

Alas, Raphael was in my neighbors connected yard, huddled in a corner, mewing pathetically. I hopped over a low wall and ran to him.

"Raphael! How the hell did you get here?"

I grabbed him and put him inside. His tall tail bristled and he trotted into the house and began playing with his toys, please with himself for being found by so cleverly mewing. I assumed that he had gotten out after my mom and resolved simply to operate more carefully when opening and closing my front door.

Alas, it was a Saturday, and I left the house again for the day, very carefully, mind you, for I did not want him to escape again. Several hours passed. By the time I got home, it was mid-afternoon. Again, Raphael was nowhere to be found. But this time, I knew where to look.

I opened my back door and, alas, there he was, huddled in my alleyway against a snow shovel.

"How are you doing this?" I asked him.

"I can't answer you, I am a cat," he replied.

At this point, I was sure that he had some means of escape other than my house's doors. I searched through the house for the culprit opening.

Long story short, there was a hole in my basement. I put a wooden board over it and left it at that.

I have this gap in my story where Claire has to wait two weeks before actually committing her "act of revenge" on Natalie.  Right now, Claire's posts are in that stage.  A few days ago, she wrote "You are in a world of trouble. I finally found my method of your defeat."  This post hints that Claire has decided what she will do to get back at Natalie, and that this action is going to be very negative. Yesterday, Claire wrote, "I am not having any seconds thoughts about this. I think I know myself well enough to trust my intentions and let things happen. You'll see."  It is clear that Claire has made up her mind.  In two weeks, on April 18th, the actual action will take place.  We will have to wait to see how Claire reacts.

They are horrific and I hate them.

Hanging with Brett and Graham.
Wrestling with my dog.
Going to Ritas.
Eating amazing food.
Going to a Phillies game.
= An awesome day.

Quotes are good in many ways.  They can make you laugh or cry.  Make you mad or confused.  There always seems to be a really good quote in a movie or book or on tv.  Because of this I suspected that my quote for the benchmark would be online.  I looked around the internet for about a hour and could only find one quote from the movie I was looking at. (THE MOVIE HAS BEEN OUT FOR AROUND 2 MONTHS, SHOULDN'T THERE BE SOMETHING!)  Now I have to bring the dvd in from home, buy a video recorder and record the scenes I wanted so I can finish my outline.  :/ I believe the world hates me.  

In the past week there have been some "technical" difficulties on twitter.  I have been unable to work on my english benchmark due to this, and I have been forgetting about my daily post.  :(...Sorry.  But a angel shined down on me and gave me a new application that connects to Twitter.  So take that! ...I hope I can get back on track this benchmark effects my final grade. :0