A Journey Through The Year...

Hello again! As I was thinking about what to write, I realized that I haven't ever shown my art that I've done this year in my art classes at school, so I decided to show you! I did a foundations ll class for the first semester and for the second semester I'm in a drawing class. Some of my projects are still at school (or they are not camera worthy) so here are a few of them that I have!

Art Foundations ll

This is the cover of my Sketch Book! We got to make our own and it had to have a theme.
I chose to do the Avengers. It was really fun to draw!

We did a quick twenty minute draw of our shoe. We couldn't use value and just had to do
do some contour lines.

We worked with lot's of mediums in Foundations. One of the mediums was plaster! It was
really fun to use! On the border, I have a pencil, a soccer ball, a nike shoe,
percussion mallets, piano keys, and a paintbrush. 

Drawing

With this project we could not draw forms. We used cross contour lines in this
piece (Combination of cross hatching and contour line drawings). I drew this for
Christian who is in Texas on his mission right now.

I had lot's of fun with this! The paper is poster sized so it is a lot
bigger than what I normally draw on! I got to use my prisma colored pencils
with this project which was great! We were working with geometrical
figures and I wanted to have my figures 'make music'. So they are literally
constructing the music! I really like the blue guy who is sleeping on a 'rest' and
the red guy who gets loud with lot's of force (sfz).

Guess what! I finally did a painting today in class!!! I was done with a project and I had time (this was a new experience for me to have extra time in my art class. We work fast on projects and I...well I am a perfectionist and it needs to be perfect before I can turn it in) to free draw. I was looking around the class and thought it would be fun to draw someone but then I realized I'd have to ask them to not move and it'd take to long. I wanted to try something new so I asked my teacher if I could paint! She said sure, and got me a canvas. I didn't know what to do so I decided to just wing it. So this is what it turned out to be!

My painting from art 

It's super simple but I did it in less than twenty minutes so I thought it went well! I was literally just standing and slashing my brush across the canvas. I was pretty much just having fun by mixing colors than actually trying to make a painting. It was really fun to do though! I might add something in front of it and have the color be the background...I dunno, we'll see!

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading my babbling. If you want to see some artwork from other kids in my class just look at Emma or Martina's blog! That's all for this week! Try a new medium and just have fun with it! Also, remember to save your art or take pictures so that you can see your progress! See ya!

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

We have this super good chocolate chip recipe and we decided to make some this Wednesday. These cookies don't take a long time to make and they are super simple! 

We got the recipe from my grandma, who got it from a lost boy's mother. (Cool story right?) My grandma was home one day and saw a little boy get dropped off at a neighbor's house. The mother drove off and the little boy went up to the house to knock. The little boy knocked a few times but no one answered. He sat out on the grass and just waited. After a while, my grandma went across the street to talk to the little boy and see if he needed help. The little boy was going to have a play date, but his friend was not home. So, my grandma brought him across the street to her house and called his mother up. The mother came over to my grandparents house and took the boy home. She came back later with a plate of cookies and told my grandma thanks! The cookies were really- no amazingly good and my grandma asked for the recipie. She got it, and this is it! It's definitely one of the best chocolate chip cookie recipes ever! Because my grandma got the recipie helping a little boy who was 'lost' we call the cookies lost little boy chocolate chip cookies.

Little Lost Boy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes

Ingredients

2/3 c. of Shortening

2/3 c. of Butter (11TBS)

1 c. of Sugar

1 c. of Brown Sugar

2 Eggs

1 tsp of Vanilla

3 1/2 c. of Flour

1 tsp of Salt

1 tsp of Baking Soda

1 package of Chocolate Chips

Instructions:

Mix the shortening, butter, and sugars together. Add the eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add the mixture slowly to the dough. Add the chocolate chips after the dough is a good consistency (the dough should feel like play-dough). Scoop the dough onto a cookie sheet, and bake! (Also, if you need a substitute for eggs, use a banana and baking soda. For every egg that you substitute, use 1/2 of a banana and 1/4 tsp of baking soda. For this recipie you'd use a whole banana and 1/2 a tsp of baking soda. It seems crazy, but it works! The cookies will taste more like bananas but they taste good!)

Here's a plate of cookies and a glass of milk! These are little
lost boy chocolate chip cookies! Yum!

I hope you enjoy them! If you have any questions, just leave a comment! Also, if you want to find some great recipes check out Hungry Happenings for some great food ideas! Also another fun baking blog is my friend Jacqueline's blog, What Would Happen If I Tried to Bake. I hope you enjoy!

See ya!

Photos of Spring

I'm finally going to be talking about photography! I have to warn you though, I don't really know how to set the camera up (things like the ISO and other settings) but I understand composition! If you want to see a great photography blog, look at my friend McCauley's blog!

With these photos I went outside and tried to find something worthy of a picture. I didn't have anyone to take pictures of, so I took pictures around my house. Right now everything is still dead and we don't have any snow. I tried to work a little bit more with perspective and different angles. I also took pictures with anything that was somewhat green. I got a few fun shots, but what do you think?

This is a path on the side of my house. I blurred the edges just a little bit to help
your eyes follow the stepping stones. I  also changed this to sepia because I liked
the feel of the picture.

Here are some tulip buds. When ever I see these popping out
I get excited because summer is almost here!

These flowers always bloom first at my house. They are unique and they
are the first to appear during spring! I blurred this around the edges because
I really wanted to add emphases to the purple. 

Here are the first blades of grass that are green in my yard! Summer's coming! 

This is an archway in my yard. I really like the texture of the
metal and how the arch looks from this angle. 

Because the stepping stone and plant go off the 'page' I think
it adds interest! I like how the stone looks against the soil because of
the contrast.    

I really like this picture. I don't know why but I think it's
one of my favorites!

I also worked a little bit with depth and tried to focus on ether the flower, the 'wheat' (I know it's not wheat but I don't know what to call it!), the soil, or the pot. I think they looked pretty cool!

The flower

The 'wheat'

The Soil

The garden pot

When you are taking pictures of anything you need to be sure that you know what you want your image to portray. If there is an emotion that you want people to feel when they look at your picture you've got to try and create it with your composition or editing. Just remember to always try and see things from a different perspective because not only are things more interesting, but you might be able to see something that you didn't see before.

See ya!