1) Independent
2) Self Worth
3) Control
I have always known that independence was a important value in my life but I just realized that self worth and control were too.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Los Questions dos!
1) How much time did you spend working?
On my individual I spent the whole week working on a project but on my final product about 3 days.
2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
For the first couple of days I was sitting and looking at all the still lives that Mr. Ganes has set up. Contemplating on where I should begin. I started about 20 of them but I couldn't finish them. I started then stared at them and threw them away. I was definitely not happy with them. I was lacking confidence the first couple of days.
3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?
I don't remember if it was Wednesday or Thursday I had finally chose to draw Peter. Then I got bored of that and I looked at the Perrier bottles that are set up in Mr. Ganes' still lives and I started drawing them. I spent about 8th and 9th period drawing the bottles because of my frustration that had built up with the Peter drawing. Now looking back on it it was a waste of time because I could've done so much to fix the peter piece but I didn't and at the end of the intense week I did feel a little rushed.
4) How much time did you spend socializing?
I didn't spend as much time socializing as I did last year. There were times I was socializing while working and I got distracted but I feel like I am getting better when it comes to that. It is really all about catching yourself. If I didn't catch myself I probably wouldn't have had anything to show at the end of the week.
5) How did you use your community?
Well Courtney came to the rescue when I needed help on my Peter piece. She helped me out with proportions. For the majority of the week i was sitting by Peter, Bari, Katherine and Kaitlyn I would always ask them for their opinion on it. They would always give me their honest answer when something needed to be fixed.
6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
I don't entirely understand this question but I am assuming it is asking to bash on your project and how to make it better? I think I could have planned my timing better. There was still a lot to be done and it wasn't done. I also got a lot of not erasable charcoal on the parts that needed to be white and I could've been more neat about it and brought in white conte crayon to bring out the whites.
7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
Definitely my next step in the acting part is to do more acting. Practice, start small and hopefully it will get somewhere. I plan on auditioning for a part in the musical if i like the whole stage crew experience in the play. My next step with visual arts is to move around the visual arts area. I have a really cool sculpture idea that I want to work on sometime in the future. I would even like to work more with ceramics. I have been working a lot in ceramics this summer and I really like it. Finally, for painting I am going to start and try to make more paintings that arent landscapes. I think I got those covered I just want to challenge myself and try painting faces because i have never done that. If I end up not liking the experience i will stick with landscapes and do more complicated ones.
On my individual I spent the whole week working on a project but on my final product about 3 days.
2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
For the first couple of days I was sitting and looking at all the still lives that Mr. Ganes has set up. Contemplating on where I should begin. I started about 20 of them but I couldn't finish them. I started then stared at them and threw them away. I was definitely not happy with them. I was lacking confidence the first couple of days.
3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?
I don't remember if it was Wednesday or Thursday I had finally chose to draw Peter. Then I got bored of that and I looked at the Perrier bottles that are set up in Mr. Ganes' still lives and I started drawing them. I spent about 8th and 9th period drawing the bottles because of my frustration that had built up with the Peter drawing. Now looking back on it it was a waste of time because I could've done so much to fix the peter piece but I didn't and at the end of the intense week I did feel a little rushed.
4) How much time did you spend socializing?
I didn't spend as much time socializing as I did last year. There were times I was socializing while working and I got distracted but I feel like I am getting better when it comes to that. It is really all about catching yourself. If I didn't catch myself I probably wouldn't have had anything to show at the end of the week.
5) How did you use your community?
Well Courtney came to the rescue when I needed help on my Peter piece. She helped me out with proportions. For the majority of the week i was sitting by Peter, Bari, Katherine and Kaitlyn I would always ask them for their opinion on it. They would always give me their honest answer when something needed to be fixed.
6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
I don't entirely understand this question but I am assuming it is asking to bash on your project and how to make it better? I think I could have planned my timing better. There was still a lot to be done and it wasn't done. I also got a lot of not erasable charcoal on the parts that needed to be white and I could've been more neat about it and brought in white conte crayon to bring out the whites.
7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
Definitely my next step in the acting part is to do more acting. Practice, start small and hopefully it will get somewhere. I plan on auditioning for a part in the musical if i like the whole stage crew experience in the play. My next step with visual arts is to move around the visual arts area. I have a really cool sculpture idea that I want to work on sometime in the future. I would even like to work more with ceramics. I have been working a lot in ceramics this summer and I really like it. Finally, for painting I am going to start and try to make more paintings that arent landscapes. I think I got those covered I just want to challenge myself and try painting faces because i have never done that. If I end up not liking the experience i will stick with landscapes and do more complicated ones.
Los Questions #1
1) You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are
you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?
I don't want to say I like one over the other because I don't. Personally I feel like I need to both and I get things done when I am put in both situations. I like the balance of having pressure on myself which motivates me to get things done and done right when I work alone. When I work with other people the stress is shared and it is not as much. I loved the group film. I thought it was a great way to start off the year. I have been interested in acting for a while and I haven't done much about it. I am doing stage crew for the play "Our Town" to get a better feel of everything and hopefully I will move on to actually auditioning for a part in the musical. Anyways! yeah well this film was really cool it was the first time I actually broke out of my shell and it was a bit intimidating since I was in a group with all talented and experienced actors. That's why I like group work because you can work off each other and motivate each other.
2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?
In the individual part I was expecting to get a better control of the vine and compressed charcoal and get better at still life drawings. This summer I worked with still life drawings but they were just so terrible. I really just want to do one still life that actually looked like the thing I am drawing. The only thing that I have made that looked like the legit thing was a drapery piece.
3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?
I learned a little bit more about proportions. Courtney was floating around the room one day and I had asked her to help me because my piece looked so off and I was about to throw it out and actually explode. She had told me that my angles were off and I was doing them wrong. When I saw her doing it I realized I was and when I tried it for myself the piece transformed and it was pretty cool. In the group project I learned that I am not as shy as I think I am. I was honestly so scared of showing that film to the class. I was about to pee myself. Once Luke played it I calmed down and I didn't even care that everyone was watching. I started to laugh and I was not expecting that from myself.
4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
For the Individual I didn't learn how to actually do a still life without a picture. Which was my whole purpose of choosing the charcoal still life as my project. I am pretty upset about that but my final piece turned out pretty awesome. I definitely won't stop trying. I am working a little bit at home on my own time with charcoal still lives.
5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.
For the individual I ended up drawing Peter for my charcoal piece. I am pretty proud of it. It is the first piece that I made that actually looks like the person I am trying to draw without me using the grid technique. At first I was having a lot of trouble with the proportions and it was really stressful because Peter was moving, I was moving and there were eraser shavings everywhere. Finally, I decided to get Peter to pose and I took my fabulous iphone and took a picture and I started using the picture as a reference. I came across many obstacles. One being my cracked phone. This kid dropped my phone and cracked the whole screen so I had to look at the picture like that. It wasn't too bad it made the picture look kind of cool. As I am writing this I am starting to wish that I had included the cracked screen in the piece. Other than that that was my brilliant plan for pulling it off!
I don't want to say I like one over the other because I don't. Personally I feel like I need to both and I get things done when I am put in both situations. I like the balance of having pressure on myself which motivates me to get things done and done right when I work alone. When I work with other people the stress is shared and it is not as much. I loved the group film. I thought it was a great way to start off the year. I have been interested in acting for a while and I haven't done much about it. I am doing stage crew for the play "Our Town" to get a better feel of everything and hopefully I will move on to actually auditioning for a part in the musical. Anyways! yeah well this film was really cool it was the first time I actually broke out of my shell and it was a bit intimidating since I was in a group with all talented and experienced actors. That's why I like group work because you can work off each other and motivate each other.
2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?
In the individual part I was expecting to get a better control of the vine and compressed charcoal and get better at still life drawings. This summer I worked with still life drawings but they were just so terrible. I really just want to do one still life that actually looked like the thing I am drawing. The only thing that I have made that looked like the legit thing was a drapery piece.
3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?
I learned a little bit more about proportions. Courtney was floating around the room one day and I had asked her to help me because my piece looked so off and I was about to throw it out and actually explode. She had told me that my angles were off and I was doing them wrong. When I saw her doing it I realized I was and when I tried it for myself the piece transformed and it was pretty cool. In the group project I learned that I am not as shy as I think I am. I was honestly so scared of showing that film to the class. I was about to pee myself. Once Luke played it I calmed down and I didn't even care that everyone was watching. I started to laugh and I was not expecting that from myself.
4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
For the Individual I didn't learn how to actually do a still life without a picture. Which was my whole purpose of choosing the charcoal still life as my project. I am pretty upset about that but my final piece turned out pretty awesome. I definitely won't stop trying. I am working a little bit at home on my own time with charcoal still lives.
5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.
For the individual I ended up drawing Peter for my charcoal piece. I am pretty proud of it. It is the first piece that I made that actually looks like the person I am trying to draw without me using the grid technique. At first I was having a lot of trouble with the proportions and it was really stressful because Peter was moving, I was moving and there were eraser shavings everywhere. Finally, I decided to get Peter to pose and I took my fabulous iphone and took a picture and I started using the picture as a reference. I came across many obstacles. One being my cracked phone. This kid dropped my phone and cracked the whole screen so I had to look at the picture like that. It wasn't too bad it made the picture look kind of cool. As I am writing this I am starting to wish that I had included the cracked screen in the piece. Other than that that was my brilliant plan for pulling it off!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Petur.
I was determined to find a final something to draw. I was searching around the room and everything seemed way too boring or way too complicated especially for the time we have. I started to draw a still life set up but I found myself so unhappy. I wanted to get some compressed charcoal since it stays on better because i was also getting annoyed at the fact that the vine was getting all over the place. I was also getting frustrated with myself because I really wanted to start something. I was starting to regret not painting but I know I should not paint since I want to get better at my charcoal skills. I was just sitting and doodling when I realize I am drawing Peter who was directly in front of me! I don't entirely know why but I love observing people in the way they sit. I have a lot of sketches of people sitting listening to music or writing or even drawing. I think it is pretty cool. Peter was on his computer doing his project and I start drawing him working. I had everything in mind I wanted to do a close up on just him on his computer with nothing else in the background. In the process of all this I ran into two problems. One problem being that Peter was moving a lot. The second problem was measuring everything to have things in proportion. It was getting really frustrating because I would measure one thing and then I would measure it again to double check and it was completely wrong. After a while Courtney came to help me measure because clearly I was doing something wrong with the measuring. She too was having trouble and we were not agreeing on one measure. Then later on i realized that I move around a lot in my seat and that was what was messing me up in the proportion part. After a while I started to see more of a figure that looked like something. I liked it a lot and I am going to start working on the shades tomorrow.
Monday, September 10, 2012
charcoal
For this week I want to work on a charcoal piece. Today I worked on a still life that Mr. Ganes has out. I did not find it too entertaining but I really want to work on my charcoal skills since they are not that great. It turned out to be a pretty good rough draft and I think i am ready to start tomorrow. I really like working with charcoal especially vine charcoal since it is more forgiving then compressed. I just need to work on controlling the charcoal on the paper. This summer i worked on a still life charcoal piece of a tea pot with a column next to it. I didnt entirely like it. I am excited to start but i also don't feel like i am too excited because i know i would've written a more exiting blog post! Ill you know how it goes tomorrow!
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