Yoskay Yamamoto

To be frank, I don't understand 3D art at all. I just don't get the why and how of things made out of clay and "found" things and things vaguely reminiscent of other things, and I am pretty much fine with that. But I was looking at this artist's work on her website and because I didn't like her paintings that much, I decided to take a glance at her sculpture, which is unusual for me because I normally just skip over it, and I found myself pleasantly surprised. I think if I did 3D work at all, it would look like hers.

I love this one in particular. floating fish...

natural habitat

IT'S SO NICE BEING BACK IN THE ART ROOM LATE LATE LATE AGAIN!!1

just me and free paint


I'm waiting for my painting to dry - i'm painting on wood, which I've actually NEVER done before! yay for trying new things. It's a painting on a cutting board of a fish on a cutting board. I found a discarded cutting board at Sam's house yesterday and they let me have it, so it's pretty much perfect.
ssssoooo much creative energy

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...