some of my more recent scratchboards for el concentrationo.
got a couple more unphotographed bringing my final count to 14.5
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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.
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!
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.
I love my tree guy. This is oil pastel. Not quite finished I could add more.NOTE: I removed a couple pictures from this post for PR purposes. Still fine to use them for AP portfolio.
-Timko
I heard the tsunami really shook Japan's morale...
Need to take a better slide, in person things are much smoother.
I, for whatever reason, fell in love with the tummy shading.
Breadth! Cut your eyes off...
Hello!
Looks like some of you are getting some great work done while I've been gone! Some of you... not so much. You should have turned in your AP agreement and paid your deposit by now. All students are required to create a portfolio, so make sure that's done or you will receive NC in this class.
I received login information from three of you, hopefully the rest of you have also registered for the AP site and written your password in a safe place. Feel free to start uploading slides and writing your concentration statement; you will not forward these on until May, and you can change or delete anything between now and then.
You have about two months to get everything finished, so I hope you have all been working hard and have at least half of your concentrations and all of breadth done by now. Your weekends are no longer your own!
This is what I've been up to:
I received login information from three of you, hopefully the rest of you have also registered for the AP site and written your password in a safe place. Feel free to start uploading slides and writing your concentration statement; you will not forward these on until May, and you can change or delete anything between now and then.
You have about two months to get everything finished, so I hope you have all been working hard and have at least half of your concentrations and all of breadth done by now. Your weekends are no longer your own!
This is what I've been up to:
I HAEF MAED ART
This is a planet I did with acrylic paints.
This is a piece that I wanted to show texture. It's also brown. Ink pens.
I did this piece upside down at first to get the drips first, then I turned it right side up and saw the trees so I decided to ink it as such. Watercolor and ink pens.
how about them lakers?!
this is a photo.. of me.. i set the camera on a tree stump and set a timer.
when this was edited i used a black and white filter and a few others. i also added contrast.
this photo is of (my friend) Savannah. it was taken by my dads house at GFM.
This photo i took in Japan, summer 2008.
This is basically the Japanese Effiel Tower (Tokyo Tower).