EHS AP Studio Art

These are some of the first pictures I took, with my first camera, over 2 years ago. I took my camera with me, everyday, and just took pictures of the things that I saw. I didn't really know how to adjust the settings, but now I do.

thingo.

This is a drawing that i made during the paper crane project. It is not fully complete. I used graphite and ballpoint pen.

AP 2D idea: "Cat-Scanning"

Photo Students: Helpful Chart

I recommend you print this out and take it with you everywhere!

You Jelly?

Yes, I received a five. I depended my future on this score; if I had received a three or below, I would go to school for sociology. If I had received a four or above, I would go to art school.

I am going to art school.

I wanted to thank all of you. Without you, I probably wouldn't have done it. If you were supportive of me, you inspired me to keep going. And if you were rude and unsupportive, you inspired me to get a better score than you. So, in turn, every single one of you have a part in this score. Thank you.

And Mrs. Timko, I truly thank you. Three years of art classes had led to this. I hope I'm one of your success stories. Also, I will make sure you make you a special piece of art and frame it for your room. You are the best teacher I had at Evergreen, truly.

I hope you e-mail me, Timko, and help me choose an art school. I am open to any and all suggestions! I want my BA in fine arts, and then my MA from Marylhurst in Art Therapy.

P.S. here's a nice picture of my cat:

AP 2-D Score

MISS TIMKO!!!! MISS TIMKO!!!! I GOT A FIVE!!!!!!!!! I am so flippin excited if I had your call phone number I would call you right now! But I don't so I wont.

Think how good we could be at baseball if we didnt do art.....

some of my more recent scratchboards for el concentrationo.

got a couple more unphotographed bringing my final count to 14.5

Operation Concentration: Complete

Again, this shoot was for my concentration. I only used the the red flower one and the daisy one in my actual portfolio. Im glad to say my concentration is completely finished :)

Now I need to finish working on my breadth and quality

Concentration, lol.

Started as a watercolor sketch. Ended up being more loose than my usual style, but I still like it.

Done with ink pens. Looks a little more finished in real life.

Done with watercolor and ink pens. Tried to show perspective.

so...yeah..

Here are three pieces from my concentration. All of them are acrylic and collage.

oh hai! im that guy. look so fly in my silk bow tie. dont know why, im built so fly, but i am- no lie. oh my.

soooo, like... this is what ive been working on. let me save you some breath, Melissa.. IT'S UNFINISHEDDDDD!

(TITULAR STUFF)

Sucker

Okay, so far I have 10 pieces in progress. Right now I'm working on my tenth piece and it is more abstract than my others. My plan for the other two are to do a octpus skeleton painting and the other one is a suprise.

Fishy!!!!!

These are all for my concentration which is reflections. This one, I wrote on the mirror so on the reflection you can see some of the writing.

This one is a fish tank and I thought the way the reflection of the girl walking kinda looks like she is under water. It is a little grainy but I like the look for this picture.

This one I put a white flower on the mirror and had some drapery. I put a filter on it to make it the shadows be blacker and the whites brighter.

Guess what today is? It's....FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIED EGGS, FRIED EGGS.

It's Spring Break. But here's the kicker, I have no Spring Break. I start back at Clark on Monday and I've been at Evergreen my entire break from Clark. So, there is a price that I pay for my college endeavors.

But hey, I did some art. Because I had pneumonia and had plenty of time to art. Yes, art is a verb.

... I was on pharmeceuticals to combat my illness, and I found waterc0lor pencils and was absolutely mesmerized by this video of a Slow Loris lemur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygRJk) and then I found one of him with an umbrella. And I just could not get that little guy out of my head. So I drew him. I think I will name him Pete.

A part of my concentration. I just really love this piece. It was just a whimsical drawing at first, hence the sloppy damask background, but I just ended up loving it. I used India & writing ink (hence the purple-blue hues in some shading). It seems as though I am becoming more loose as the year progresses.

I wanted to do one from above... and I like checkers... and I just decided to do this with India ink. So...Yep. Another thing I seem to be noticing in my concentration is the use of pattern to break up negative and positive spaces in areas that aren't dominated by a subject, especially to avoid having large amounts of black or white which would make the piece bland for the type of concentration I'm going for.

On a related note, I have more than 12 of each. So, hey, I could be done but I'm continuing to work to filter out some older things that I don't exactly like anymore.

Better late than never haha

My first painting ever. I thought i did decent, but then again that's just my view. This is a calabo of acrylics and sharpie! The top makes me think of heaven shining through dark clouds of sin, this took me a good 4 hours or so haha.

This is chalk pastel and graphite. It's suppose to symbolize decay as a result of smoking. If you see closely the smoke being blown out is in the shape of a broken heart.