Nothing really happened this week except for work, work and more work. However, I was able to fit in some painting time and start a new piece. I am trying to work on it a little every day. The only problem is that it is in acrylic. Don't get me wrong I like acrylic, but so far I've only used acrylic and water color this summer. Maybe when I finish this painting I will buy some drawing paper and actually draw using colored pencils or something. I have a picture from Canada that I thought about doing, but I think it would look better as a painting so I'll save it for later.

I just got back from CANADA!!! and there was inspiration everywhere there for me! I took numerous pictures of everything (which is mostly trees and water) so that I can hopefully piece them together and paint a really pretty picture :) During my trip, however, I was able to paint using watercolor pencils in my sketchbook and I actually love how they turned out! So here are two of them; one is of a crayfish claw that was a purple-blue color and the other is of a bobber because I spent 6 hours of every single day for a week fishing. It's sideways...I have no idea how to fix that.

I found this picture when I visited http://www.scholastic.com/. It's digital art done by 17 year old Grant Leung in Ohio. I have no idea how to do any kind of digital art and that's why this picture really interested me. It looks so real that when I saw it I was completely grossed out! Though I don't have the technology (except for photoshop) that I could do something like this with, I hope to learn/try digital art in the future.

The drawing of the girl was so realistic same as me. This picture came up right after the digital one, but I couldn't help but post it. The way it was drawn- subject slightly off center, the extreme contrast of light vs dark and its source of light along with its realism- made me want to practice drawing people so that I could draw something like that.

From this site I learned that I could have entered a drawing in seventh grade to win scholarships. It's too late for that now but maybe I could enter in something this year and try and win some money. I also learned that they recognize writing as art which is kind of nice because people don't often put those two together. What was really nice is that they listed and then described how they judge each piece; originality, vision, and technical skill. Perhaps these are what the AP art test graders look for as well.