My Haiti Cards!

progression of the sunset: So I had a few of these cards because i really felt like doing another watercolor sunset just because i've been working with wax and i need something to reassure me that i could do something i like that looked nice. But..... the water color completely destroyed the card! So i was all disappointed and sad but then on... friday I decided , hey! why not try my hand at some oil pastels. I've used them before but only for drawing pumpkins and stuff. sooo i was nervous . !!!! but. I think they turned out pretty nice and i got a few good hours of , well hours. I really want to do one of these with wax just to see. maybe ill do a really mini one the next time i have a brain freeze. That is what i did this weekend.

Oh and i saw St. Mary's Academy's Thoroughly Modern Millie.... sooooo funny. lots of tapping! lots of laughs :) and kent was in it which was fun :)

Critiques !!!

Hey so i just want to say i had a lot of fun critiquing and looking at everyones works (thats why i decided to just continue and do everyones) I just want to say thank you for all the amazing critiques and advice :) i am definitely taking everything into consideration to make my work better :) it feels like it's going to be a great week :)

IM TRYING NOT TO RELY ON THE MEDIUM ANYMORE

LYRICAL: So this one is done 100% i really like it, beneath it is a mixture of swirly colors and some stronger lines, it also has an etherial quality in the center which i love. the lines on top represent sheet music because lyrical is basically dancing to the words of a song. I like this piece and surprisingly it's the one that took least time. :)

AFRICAN! so this red one is my african piece and i like how the colors blend and how the thread comes through a little, the tree circle effect i wanted .... but this is no where near done!!!! this is like the epitome of relying on the medium!!!!!! I like the color and texture because it is warm and has a story esque feel but I always wanted to add a foot or something to this. I just ran out of time. I will definitely be adding some kind of foot element or feet to this. Not nice ballet shoes, but raw cracked feet. I may take away some of the built up wax and use that to make feet things. ya.

Ok so i had another wax thing, but I stole it back because I couldn't bear to look at it anymore. I thad a cool background but then these weird wire things that were trying to be gears, then i tried painting it FAIL. So i am not going to post my picture. i'm working on it next, basically its a cool background but more white. Then i am going to try and engrave gear images into the wax kinda like i did the top of my field for the whistling season thing , just small. then some kins of dancer image with oil staining so the imprint comes through. Hopefully i can "make it work" Tim Gunn anybody... anybody....

My other new piece is a nice colors background that reflects strength and softness then a dancer as part of it. then on top a corner of a room and yet another dancer on top of that. I like it so far.

So basically my concentration is how the dynamics of dance make each style unique and individual, such as a special feature that only that has (like the song sheet) or just the lines and how they reflects the dimensions and dynamics of the movement.

JUST FOR ME!

(twelve pieces right?)

1. Broadway : done but i can do better if there's time to spare.

2. Modern : done and like it , but i could do wax if that would make more sense.

3. Lyrical: done and i love it

4. African: not done

5. Ballet: will be done soon

6. Contemporary: will be done soon i hope

i need 6 more. lets see. those two done by wednesday maybe if i come in a lot i can do one every two weeks or one every week. I want time to fully evaluate my work as a whole and change the ones that could be better.

YO DUDESKIES

SO..... i just had an idea. for my contemporary piece i am going to work on my background and then make it a bit whiter because!!!! I wanted to incorporate both machinery and dancers into my piece but didn't know how!!!! ta da i think i want to engrave the cogs and stuff of machinery so it's just scratched into the surface and then i can do some cool dancer image with oil staining this way you get a peak of machinery through the dance image!!!!! i hope it works :) cecilia is happy

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So i had my dance audition for Chapman today, it went really well but I won't know how I did till April. The area is really nice and it's surrounded by and artist vibe, lots of theaters, museums, and galleries, which is a lot of fun.

Encaustic : Super cool video

Dance Auditions

So on monday the 15 i am going up to Seattle for a dance audition at Cornish College of the Arts im pretty relaxed about it because it is just a class so i feel confidant. The cool thing about Cornish is that i got a letter in the mail saying i had been recommended for their art program because of national portfolio day and i had to write back saying if i wanted to continue dance or switch to art so that was pretty cool. Then on that

saturday i am flying down to Chapman for a dance audition, which i am nervous about because i have to do two solos for them by myself. No pressure... :/. But i am excited to go back to Cali and be warm :) :) :).

Speaking of dance, in creative writing we did an activity where Mrs. Long turned on music and we had to draw along with the music and switch stokes and colors whenever the music changed and so on. There was some really cool results. So...... Cara gave me the brilliant idea of using this technique and incorporating it into my concentration, so I'm gonna try some stuff in my sketchbook today and see what happens :).

So...The Whistling Season. I Thought it went really well, i hadn't prepared anything to say because i didn't think it was such a huge deal but it turned ou

t that like 5o people were there including the mayor and the superintendent etc. and i had to use a microphone. But, it went well. The wagon wheels were s

oooooo good. And i had like three people come to me and tell me they really liked my piece including - Mrs Chrisman told me this - and art consultant was there before everyone arrived and she really really liked my piece :)

:) it went really w

ell.