hold on it's not your time yet

shit
i feel like i always have to put art on hold because of everything else
like ACT studying, SAT subject tests, college essays, college visits, ear infections, chinese school, club fairs, calculus, sleep...
i wish i didn't want to take 8 classes this year, especially when I have a portfolio to grow.
I miss summer when art came first!

summer business

Well I'm guessing we're supposed to make a post about what we did over the summer...and post pictures, but I haven't taken any pictures because my camera sucks and my art is all at school.

Anyway, I did the pre-college program at SFAI, the san francisco art institute, which is apparently one of the most conceptual art schools in the country, but I don't feel like I really got pushed in that area, because most of what I did was just traditional painting.
Umm, the experience was still valuable though because I got to be around art kids doing arty things and they were more inspiring than anything else. I actually made a post about it on my other blog.
I'm still really into illustration and water colors and my style didn't change, but that's ok, i'm ready for more.

I just got an NAHS donation from Palisade's market! go pacers!! yay for palisades market!!

this is much better than last year, when I went around to almost every business in downtown LO and they all said no...sad face. well, they don't get to be on our really cool poster. they lose.

final post!

http://lhs.loswego.k12.or.us/z-mcbrides/AP/2009/09APbreadthconcentration.htm

OK, well...art class is great now since our oncentrations are finished and there is no longer that sense of urgency that there was when our concentrations were in progress. However, I don't know if I ever really felt that panic and pressure of not having a piece done or worse, not having an idea because I had everything planned out before I even started. I essentially knew exactly what every piece was going to be, and the only thing I mused over was a composition, and even then all I had to do was talk to Steven or look on flickr. I think this was a good thing in that it lessened the stress of the class significantly, but it also detracted from the frenzied creativity that other people had when they were crunched for time. So, I'd recommend planning out pieces but also leaving some wiggle room for expanding your ideas.
I like my book a lot, and if that was anything like real illustration jobs, I'd love to become an illustrator. I'm psyched this summer to go to san francisco and scare the shit out of myself when I learn how to explore a wider range of ideas and styles. sweet.

FTW

May 6, 2009 at 1:23 pm

I bound my book and put it online and forwarded it to my teacher Shannon McBride and I took Dalton and the ghost off of the stretcher bars and jackson had to help pull up the staples and now after the quality section is sent in I'm done.

AWESOME!

The year is so close to being over. According to the art room countdown we have 25 days left. 25 days! This week was supposed to be my good student week, and it coincides nicely with teacher appreciation week. What this means is that I won't put off doing any homework until the day it's due at break or lunch and I'll study for all the tests that I have.
so good luck
now i can go do my 3 research papers...

spring break inspiration

Left: how to gift wrap a octopus Right: Stormy Legend
Artist: Trish Grantham
What I find inspiring about her work is the dreamy style of her characters but also the quality of the paintings themselves. The backgrounds all have that encaustic-ish feel and they have very loose compositions. I guess it'd be nice to be able to mix the "fine art" thing with the cute cartoony things.

Left: Private project
right: from Uncle Leon's adventures in the Romanian Steppes
Artist: Yaniv Shimony
This artist is an illustrator from Jerusalem and his children's books are great, or at least, I like them better than his illustrations. They are all very whimsical but the drawings are good and have a lot of character. i wish I had seen his books before I had started my concentration because I could've picked up some tips and technical sort of ideas. If i ever illustrate another book...I will make it focused more on the characters and not so much the compositions like with this one.

phewww~~~

dry well...AGAIN

So, I was doing my sketchbook entry last night, and I was drawing a picture of this guy at the library who finds a sandwich between the books and is pulling it out, but when I finished drawing it, I didn't like it. I figured it was because I'm tired of how i draw and how everything comes out looking the same...:(
i haven't had a good inspiration for a while and I want to do art, but I don't feel like I have a lot to work with. Hopefully the inspiration assignment will help over spring break. Maybe another part of it is that I haven't had time to do nothing and let these artsy ideas accumulate. I've been super busy. Junior year SUCKS. Sleep is my elusive friend.