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 :)

Venting about encaustics

so.... here i go

i have finished my two pieces fo

r March and am very happy with them, broadway and tango. i played with texture, contrast, and colors more to make them differen

t than what i've done previously.

Right now i am playing with my contemporary and ballet one. Contemporary is becoming more like a redone modern so i hope that works because it has potential for being nice. I decided not to do the AP test , i didn't think it would be smart to pay for something that only gives me number and i can't really afford. Last year i would have done it for sure, but im not strongly pursuing art in the future, i am more focused on creating

art and discovering myself as an artist :). i feel less stress now even though i wasn't before haha. anyway i feel good about where i'm going especially since i am really behind in my art.

where i am right now.

lyrical : done

African : done

Broadway : done

Tango : done

modern : working on it

hopefully modern will get done this week

then i will have seven to do

oh gosh

wow

the good thing with that however is that me and Sarah have sorted ou

t the used wax and are going green with recycling the old wax, it's working really well. Hopefully this can conserve wax and i can continue doing wax without over paying way too much.

i will be in a car for 18 hours on sunday so i am bringing my sketchbook and coming up with all my ideas for my next pieces :)

in other words, this is form artist Ruth Gooch

it's encaustic :) :) :) ahmazing :)