I've decided to quit blogging and move to England where I shall buy a double decker bus and travel around in my living home and experiencing life for what it truly is.
April Fools. But wouldn't that be epic in itself? Actually a Youtuber that I've been following for a while now named Louis Cole or his channel name 'Fun for Louis' has done that and is basically a nomad that lives the life that many dream about living. So cheers to you, Louis.
Back to my week. So, I've been posting art that I've been working on or have completed on these last few posts, so I thought why not make it a thing to do?
I was inspired by this pin that I got a few years back in Disney World, which is the Grape Soda pin from Pixar's movie Up and so I did a little doodle with the new colored pencils that I got. By the way, those colored pencils are SO AMAZING and they draw so smoothly and 10/10 Belles' would recommend them. Hopefully I'll be extending my pencil collection soon.
Here's the Up sketch:
Which brings me to my next point: The State Art Show.
So, to begin, I feel as though I was misinformed by Manders (art instructor) about how this all was going to go down.
He chose to enter my watercolor piece, which was the pier with the lighthouse at the end that I put on the post a couple back. That, as I said, was my first water color. Now should I have put in my first watercolor painting into a state art show? Probably not...
I would have much rather put my railroad track painting in, but we never really sat down to discuss this. Second is, they not only graded your work, but they also put in a score for the artist statement I was told I had to do. I was not told that it had any relevance to the grading process. If I would have known, I would have at least attempted to make it a little deep and personal. Not just general information.
Long story short, I pretty much received a participation award. Some people that received 'Superior' awards, in my opinion, didn't deserve them. And you could easily see some favoritism being played between the people that were called up and exchanged a couple words with the judges.
But, it was a good learning experience and next year I'll at least know what I'm up against. No hard feelings. Everyones a critic after all. While I was at this high school though (which is actually a legit art school with regular classes and everything, but there are more art classes, everyone's art driven, and there's epic work everywhere) ((my dream)), I saw this charcoal drawing that was HUGE and I'm so in love with it. That's the awesome power of charcoal, though.
I need to challenge myself to go big or go home because damn, people are wicked talented in this world.
Otherwise, this weekend and the beginning of this week has been pretty chill and consisted of trips to beloved Italian restaurants, biking to Starbucks, attempting to tan in glorious 50 degree weather, staying up with awesometastic people to a time that normal folks would be getting up to live their lives, movie nights, card board cutouts of Niall Horan, and Youtube marathons. So pretty much perfection.
In other news, my photography game has been on point these last two days (man, that sounded slightly conceited. I'm really sorry). So yes, I also take pictures, and these have been two shots I took over the last two days.
The top one is my eye and the bottom one is my friends sister who graciously said yes to modeling for a photograph because she's amazingly flexible.
I hope all of your week's have been equally as relaxing and happy April. Make it a great one.
-Belle xx
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