Wow it's been a while. So, we're almost done with our still lifes. All the kids keep telling me how good it is (I've actually done a little more than this I just didn't get a pic) I don't like how scratched up the violin looks and I've been trying to make some background shading. I think the problem is I've been working more small scale and with charcoal. XD But i'm definitely the farthest into the project and it does look nice :) My sister loves it and wants me to give it to her when I'm done. I'll probably hang it up in our room.

I've gotten a request from a friend... She wants me to draw her cello. I was thinking... uuuhhh I don't do instruments. But I guess you never know until you try huh? She lives in Twin Falls so I'll probably mail it to her once I'm done. I love giving my projects away because by the time I'm done with them I've spent so many sweaty, tear-wrenching hours on it I don't want to see them again... anyways, looking forward to that...

I've been swamped this week, and my journals have declined XD But I do love this one with the broken pot and flowers.

My homework got graded! I got a 52/50... I nearly died and just about screamed at Tookey, "YOU'RE NOT SICK ARE YOU?!" The boys at my table were comparing whos' hat drawing looked better based on shape and shade/form stuff and I was just sitting there thinking, "...they'll probably hate me if I ever tell them what I got."


Same situation with the crumpled piece of paper assignment. 51/50.

Well, I may fail my Spanish III and CC American History classes but at least I'll have a perfect grade in arts! Yay! That'll provide for me!

...anyways...

On an unrelated note, Rowan asked me to Homecoming ^_^ he knows my locker combo (long story) so he put a note along with a huge Hershey's bar and M&Ms. When I turned around he was like, "well, you haven't answered my question." and I said, "Well, I have to find a creative way to answer! You can't have it yet!"
All the girls in choir thought it was so sweet. They were impressed and excited for me ^_^

Awesome friends.

So I finished my homework early this week (because I had to work today and I'll be gone on a date tomorrow). I showed my teacher and asked what grade it would revive if it were entered that day and she said, "Definitely an A" I was like, SAWWEEETT!
 

We worked more on our still lifes but honestly I think it's going to take a while for everyone to finish. This is all I got done in about an 1 1/2 (counting goof-off time).
Oh, yeah, and there's my daily journals. I researched House of the Hanged Man and apparently it was one of the pieces he was actually satisfied with (artists are their worst critcs after all). He mad it in the spring of 1873. "It's one of his most heavily worked canvases." He put his signature in the corner and had it displayed several times in his life.
I did fruit with oil pastels, a vocab word in class, and then a very, very quick colored guitar.

     So for part of our still life unit, we're drawing some objects on 1/2 a poster board. This is the sketch I did in my book last class. I have a problem with getting everything to fit on the page and Mrs. Tookey recommended it to the whole class so... here it is. She came by near the end of class and said, "Nice composition." I don't know why but I started giggling. I took a picture of my beginning work on the poster board but the pencil was so light that you can't really see it on the photo.
     She had set up three other tables for us to choose from; on mine there were coke bottles and a class pitcher, on another was a rusty can, hoe, and roses, and on the last was a conglomeration of sticks, bike chains, and a couple other things I don't know the mechanical word for. I honestly think I got the easiest angle. There were two other guys at the station I chose and they had to draw the violin on its side. I'm not sure how my shading is going to turn out on the real deal.
   
     See, I've used all my white blender paper tool things (except the little ones) on charcoal... and we're using graphite now. I'm gonna have to stop by a store to get some, or bug dad to let me use his Amazon account for a $10 gift card I won off of a white charcoal drawing I did of the old Boise Temple. Funny thing is mom just got me illustration pens. Now I need more blendy thingies. The artists needs never stop! Mom said it was ok though, and explained she'd rather be spending money on art supplies than on car repairs, and tickets... Like her dad had to do with her brothers.
I stood there like

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     Ok. Let me get this straight. I get in trouble for spending too much time on  the computer, while your brothers tore up their cars? Makes perfect sense!
     As long as I get art stuffies I'm happy.

So we have these things in class called "journals." We're supposed to draw something every day we're out of class in our snazzy little sketch books. (btw - it was amazing when we got them. Everyone was feeling the cover, opening and closing it, then smelled the pages. Don't ask. I teased Mrs. Tookey and asked why she didn't get them engraved for us). Anyways, this unit is about still life, so we can draw anything we want (or research an artist/artwork) as  long as it is still life. I did the wheelbarrow on the 31st, and the ink pointillism composition on the 1st. Pretty cool, huh? ;)
I think today I'll research House of the Hanged Man by Paul Cezanne. Our text books mentioned the work and Tookey said we could look up that and write a few things down for our journals. I'll let you know if I find anything interesting.

This is the first project we just finished in CCDrawing. We had to crumble up a piece of paper and then draw it... As you can see I've heeded mrs Tookeys' pounding... Eh, I mean, advice, to always "go darker." The ball of paper got a little deformed from what it was originally in transit from the school to my house so I'm afraid the dimensions and paper lines don't exactly match up but oh well. ^_^ Can't wait to see what I get. Pretty sure ill lose a few points for how much negative space there is but all in all I'm happy with it.