I"M FREAKING OUT

actually i'm mot yet, i am going to wait till after christmas and then...i will flip s..t. so i had a really cool idea for my concentration and i can see myself playing with it with the encaustics but the thing it is don't do abstract art. like i just don't do it i can't and i odn't like to. so how am i supposed to ocme up with three peices of my concentration that deal with the patterns and dynamics of dance!!!!!!!!!!!!. and... i have no supplies except water color ahhhhhhh. Saturday mornish is gonna suck

Concentration

So for my concentration i was thinking about something along the lines of each piece representing the emotion or style of a different style of dance - ballet, tap, jazz, Broadway etc. - but not necessarily drawing the dance or the dancers just trying to evoke the emotion of it. So i began to write lists of words for each style to describe them and i realized that all the lists had one thing in common, they that seemed to contradicted themselves - although if a dance looked at it they would make perfect sense - but such things as ballet being both dainty and powerful didn't make sense to some people i showed my list to. This made me think that maybe i could take it to the next step, because emotion is hard to portray simply, but i could focus on the dynamics of the movement and how all the styles have some kind of push and pull, a perfect balance of structure and freedom. :) thats all i have for now. Although i have no actual art ideas, im sure something will come to me.


Also this weekend was the jazz tap review and Nutcracker at my studio, super fun :)

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Encaustic is so much fun! I really enjoy working with the wax because it is unpredictable but at the same time it feels like water color where is you don't like something you can just cover it or wash it away. I really like working on small things or doing precise organizing and to me working with thre wax has the same type of feeling. On Friday i was in the wax nook with Karen and i nfound out two thing. 1: a couple years ago the art students got to see some sort of encaustic gallery or workspace or something - which is pretty cool - and we used to use a rougher method of painting involving power. 2: everyone approaches the wax differently, wear i was focused on the image, it seemed like Karen was more interested in the shapes and colors. this i ound pretty cool that wax can be taken in all different ways so everyone piece is completely unique to them. I backed up my thought by finding some different artists work, they really are all different in what they do with the encaustic work. Here!

Also, this weekend i performed at festival of the trees and hung up my christmas light :) the weekend of the 12 and 13 i have more performances. I love the holidays :)
Oo i know I am going to take this chance to advertise. I am selling raffle tickets for my dance studio. They are five dollars each and you can pick which basket you want to enter in for. Date Night, Pamper Me, Wine cheese and chocolate, The man box (includes blazer tickets), the dog basket, and teen basket. the baskets can be taken apart and make great gifts or you can just keep everything. just thing about it you could potentially do all of your christmas shopping with five dollars. They are also a great value and include items way above the five dollar price tag. If you are interested or want more deatails just ask me :) i only have twenty tickets left!!!!