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!!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.... on friday I went to see company perform at millennium plaza which was all Christmasy and cute, but then on saturday I saw Portland's Singing Christmas Tree at the Keller for the first time in my life. It was mostly singing and there was just a tad of dancing but it was still amazing and very pretty. I am so fricken excited to put out our christmas tree - although that won't be for a couple weeks - and put up the lights outside of my house next week :) :) :) :). I absolutely love this season. Lights, trees, hot chocolate, love, happiness, did mention lights and trees, cold, snow, everything about it is so much fun. :)

But... I have to draw myself away from the magic of christmas for just one moment and write my artist statement for the scholastic portfolio thingy. Art and applications is kinda stressing me out but at the same time I have a very good feeling that it will all work out so I'm not going crazy...yet :)

The Whistling Season

So... i've been thinking a lot about my peice im going to do for the LO reads thing. I didn't like the book at all so i half read half skimmed it, meaning that i read everything but i read it fast and slowed down at the parts i liked or the important info. The part i liked most is when Paul took Rose out front and looked at the comet and the stars. I have some kind of image in my head of what i want to do and i really want to do encaustic because that will look best. I am so excited to learn how to do that :). Oh and funny enough there's a metor shower tonight , supposedly like 30 per hour from like 11-2, it a big one!
This is not what im doing, its just a pretty picture.

This Weekend

I went to the play on Friday :) it was really good, best one yet, And thats not just cause i am in love with Disney. I also teach at the Lake Oswego Academy of Dance and I got two new people in each of my classes so now i have more students YAY!!. Other than all of that and the fact that my friends got me footsie pajamas it had been pretty boring. I am now going to work on mt sketchbook page.

Eugene

Eugene

This weekend my two friends, Ashley and Lauren, and I went to Eugene. We stayed at my sisters apartment but mostly hung out with Ashley's friend Brandon at his Frat. It was really fun, we snuck into the dance building to have a look, walked in the rain, almost went to a ballroom dance event, people watched drunk people, and much more.



Nothing really art related happened except that in the morning there was a green rally type thing/protest, who had a bunch or artsy posters and big sculptures and such like this globe. I had a great weekend.
Oh and i found a bunch of pics that i like to put in my sketchbook as inspiration.

To relate this more to art.

All is well in Cecilia's world. Halloween was uber fun, i have road trip to Eugene coming up with my sis and my girlies, dance went really well today, i am so far very pleased with my current painting, and apart from my college essay the future looks bright. :)

To relate this more to art. The Leonardo da Vinci painting reminded me of the Raphael's The Woman with the Veil that is being shown in Portland. I haven't seen it but a friend of mine told me it was really amazing. Renaissance painters have the coolest names, oh hey my sisters middle name is Linnea Raphaela... weird. Its also strange to me how lots of their painting are so middle of the page (which i have never had a problem with), but i guess their use of triangles and AHmazing skills make up for that.