FINAL POST!

Don't wait until the last minute! That is probably the sole most inportant advise I can give. It is ok to be better at working under pressure and it helps you whip out an essay in max two hours the morning off the due date. But..... great and quality works of art are NOT created the night before - their are exceptions but even just thinknig ahead and planning it shows through - something you have worked hard on and not reushed to finish looks and feels so mcuh better in the end.

My favortie piece i created this year - although i really like ym houses for Haiti piece - was my Whisteling Season piece. I feel like technically this piece is one of my strongest, and although it is not very inoovative and different it has a voice. This was also my first ever encaustic piece - it took me FOREVER - but it was where i first realized to let go because now art kind of makes itself, before I concentrated so hard gettign every detail, trying to make it have a voice, and not having so much fun. However, this piece taught me how to flow through what i was doing and, it also thaugt me the techniqies of encaustic and how to love encaustic.

Oh gosh we did so much this year . . . I think I got the most out of the acctual showcase, just having my pieces up for show, having friends family, and strangers all appricate them, and even sellnig a few felt so good after all my work. Other activities i got a lot out of were the cow because it was a challenge and it gave em tons of hours!!!! as for everything else they were just really fun, liek the bbq. However I definitly would have liked a real retreat, i feel kind of like i missed out because i am not part of any other school groups so i have never had a school related retreat.

In ten years i see my self involoved with dance primarily, however this year i have realized that i do want to ocntinue to create art maybe not all the time but definitly continuing through my life. There is so mcuh dance can teach me about art and art can teach me about dance.

"Life can suck sometimes, but you can never suck at life" -Mark Dunlop

so...

houses for Haiti hmmm.... At first i wanted to do a stick house, but then abby also wanted to do one and her sis looking really nice and i think one stick house is enough, go abby :) then i wanted to do a snail but idk, kent gave me the idea of relating it to finland which i think is cute. i kind of want to do it realistic painting of Finland but then have it kind of in the style of the pettson books where there are so many hidden details and fun things to looks at. oh and the hide a snail in there somewhere :)

eeek....

well, let's just say i'm really glad the art showcase is in april because i am starting to feel the pressure of the end of the year.

I teach at my studio so not only do i have to prep for my own performances and such, but i have to make sure all of my classes look good ( if i can even finish by then ) and be there for all of their performances too. however, that's is in late may so i have some time and i wont have to worry about art because the show case is before that. In fact the showcase is.... in 11 days... hmmm ive got lots of work to do.

i have...

african

lyrical

broadway

tango

salsa

swing

contemporary

tap

hip hop

almost waltz

i need to make jazz and ballet!!!

then it's prom ! yay im excited.

Everything

I'm just going to do some venting of my own.

On saturday in my 6 year olds ballet class one of the girls started crying because she was scared she wasn't going to be seen in like a two second section of recital, so that basically ruined my morning because little kids should worry about that they should just have fun and dance. But i worked it off at the gym. On sunday ... i know we still have like half a month..... but..... i got my prom dress and i am absolutely in love with it : :) :) :) :) :) :).

art wise i am excited to get back to work because i was starting some stuff last week that was working nicely for me.

i have

african

lyrical

tap

modern

salsa

tango

waltz - still fixing

broadway

swing

jazz will be done this week, hopefully tomorrow

then i can do ballet on wednesday

something else on friday

and then i can fix everything !!! i want to play with everything a lot still.

i need to do some serious thinking right now.

So those were my march concentration pieces and i am very happy with the comments people gave me, people are so nice. But.. no i feel added pressure to keep up my new progression and not sink into and art overload rut. I have african, lyrical, tango, broadway, waltz, salsa, swing, modern.

i am working on the background for ballet, and tap will be done soon i hope. i need to really think about my last few so i can get them done super fast and well. Then i can have time to go back and add to african and my waltz one to make them really different. im also not totes happy with modern. its messy.

if ballet and tap get done soon / this week then istill have three weeks to do my next two

. I CAN DO IT!

March Concentration

This first piece represents broadway dance. It is sort of like a performer looking out at the audience from the stage, because i feel that on stage the audience is a big part of where the performer gets their energy.

This second one is Tango. It is warn colors of the dance and then there are two faces to represent the partnership and the change of emotions in tango.

Spring Break and Art

so.... i was not productive at all. I went to Los Angeles with a couple friends so during my visit i had absolutely no time to do art, however we drove all the way there and back, that is about 32 hours of car ride to do art or at least sketchbook stuff, but no. :( i have such a difficult time doing anything but talking and sleeping in cars so i didn't get anything done. I did however see two cool art things while i was in LA. The first was an arts and crafts museum gallery that we always drove past that had some kind of instillation on the outside that looked like rugs displayed like laundry in a Tibetan flag jumble kind of way. That makes absolutely no sense. The second is just a square full of light posts , i actually saw someone taking their engagement pictures there, who knew people took engagement pictures, not me. It was Located outside LACMA LA county museum of art. It is called "urban Light" by Chris Burden.

So encaustic wise... i have

african

lyrical

waltz

tango

broadway

modern

and im almost done with salsa

i need to do 5 in april and i believe i can, im going to work really hard and try to come up with my ideas before i work with the wax so i know exactly what i want, that is always how they go the fastest. I'm excited to get back in the art room and whip these out :)