Finished piece

Someone I love as a fawn.

#13 inspiration

I know I've said this before but I can never thank these two enough for helping me get through college, without them I don't think I could've survived. 

Neil Degrasse Tyson, A beautiful being whom I love very much because of his love of science and is want to educate the world. 

Myself, this year I've been through a lot of things that should've torn me down. Very proud of myself, for becoming self-aware and proactive about the things that I care about. It's been very tough for me but I'm so happy that I got through it but hopefully I will get through things later in life. 

#6 podcast

This week I listened to the podcast American life, titled in defense of ignorance. End it tell stories about how ignorance was beneficial even helpful to people in certain situations. One of the stories was is that a girl was doing a story about her grandmother, Who lived far away in China. In Chinese custom, it is traditional for doctors, when faced with the news about a patient's demise, always break it to the family members instead of the patient themselves, leaving it up to the families to tell them whether they are dying or not. This is the case of the grandma who had stage four lung cancer and was diagnosed to pass in the next couple months. The family made the decision to never tell grandma, for they believed if one is told that they are dying then they will, even discussing it folkloric joke about two men one dying and one healthy, getting their results mixed up ,  leading the healthy want to die, and the dying one to live. they couldn't do anything for the grandmother yet they wanted to say their final goodbye without actuallg letting her know, so they decided to stage a fake wedding. The entire time emotions run high, because they knew that that was their final goodbye to the grandmother, so a lot of people did cry, and everyone told grandma that they were just happy for the couple. After that though, the months and into years, with grandma still living today. Which everybody in the story was happy about, and slightly baffled.

#5 podcast

This weeks podcast I listened to the second segment of the accidental gay parents on the longest shortest time. In the segment they talked about the children, and how was a struggle at the beginning of bringing them in, and letting them feel safe. In the care of the sister the brother and sister were abused by her boyfriend, One so much that he could not speak, and would have terrors in the night. But the couple would talk about how much they loved him but they could not fully commit to these children for they were afraid that the state would take them away because they were gay. The longest time they had the children called him uncle instead of daddy, and that they weren't sure if the state or the sister would come and try to take them away. All they could do was tell them that they were safe for now. But at the end of the segment a beautiful thing happened, they got full guardianship of the children. It's things like this like give me hope and make me happy about this world. 

# 4 podcast

I listen to the podcast longest shortest time, and this one was titled the accidental gay parents. It was about a gay couple Who lived with each other for a couple years and were enjoying their lives until one day they got the call concerning one of the couples Niece and nephew. It was child services, and they were warning that they were going to take the sisters children away, and wanted to notify the brother in case he wanted them. Only being together for a couple years, and not having made any plans for the future, they decided to go All in or none at all. They talked about how they convince the sister that they were going to take them for a couple days, and as soon as they got a hold of the children immediately applied for emergency guardianship. It goes on to talk about how they met, and how new their relationship was. I thought this piece was absolutely beautiful, The absolute and I'm conditional love still exists. 

Post #12 finished work

Sister painting to the first...

#13 inspiration

I was handed this when a parade of Hare Krishnas came through town.  I got a pamphlet of their religious texts and a cookie. 

My friend Dakota helping analyze a reading, The girl who's reading is being done is going through a struggle they say and that she has the power to over come.

Doll Jesus that I found at Saint Vinvents.

#3 podcast

I listened to spilled milk the podcast, and what they talked about was a mosier crock. A mc is a french version of a grilled cheese sandwich. It consists of fresh bread, a soft cheese, and slice of ham. They went into detail on how to make it too, buttering the bread, placing it on a low heat skillet with cheese so that way it melts, before putting it together as the master piece it is . As a kid I used to eat these all the time although i expected it to be exclusive to my family. I didn't know then that there had been an entire following about it in a culture. After this I decided to revisit this childhood favorite, and all I can say is that it was wonderful.

#12 finished piece

12# inspiration pieces

Amber doing a reading of her manuscript class, featuring her story about a brother and sister fighting for their lives in a fantasy realm. There has been many a time where I would sit and paint, as she would proof read her story to me. What a wonderful muse!

My cheeky little sister Sassing me as she's getting her hair combed. I see so much of myself in her, it's like I'm going through childhood all over again. She's been such a great inspiration to me in everything I do...

When I visited with my grandpa this weekend, he threw a guitar at me and told me to paint it for a special needs child. At first I thought when do I have the time to do this and he but he insisted so I took home. I finally got to sat down with it when I was super stressed and I found it quite relaxing

11# Work in progress

#11 inspiration pieces

Recently I've been investing myself into a color book that I bought, and for the past six hours at work I've been working on it. I have a lot of fun playing with colors.

I found this picture as I was going through my photos, and I think my sister will be my inspiration for my next piece.

Here are all my friends, people whom I absolutely adore I don't know where I'd be without them.

Response to Podcast #2

I listened to the podcast longest shortest time and their segment "Mama don't understand". In this segment they ,, the matter of race, how it is perceived, especially from the viewpoints of biracial children. It's starts off with a mother talking about her daughter who is half Indian and half white, and talks about how she struggles with finding acceptance with not only her two cultures, but with her skin color as well. She talks about how her family perceives it as well, all Indian, and how they favor fair skin and call it beautiful, and it makes her worried on how it will affect her child. They then interviewed another girl, who is half black and half white. She talks about being raised by her single mother, who is white, and what she faced trying to find her identity. She even wrote a rap song when she was 8 to her mother, talking about how her mother doesn't understand "the black thing". This story resonated with me, because I had faced something rather similar in my youth. I often felt that my own father didn't understand what it was like to be a different race, and though he tried to assure me that I was American, a lot of society is still very ignorant just because of the way I look...

#10: Finished piece

Response to Podcast

This week I listened the Banecroft Brothers animation podcast, and out of all of the ones that I've heard I think the one with Glenn Keane was the most inspirational for me. 

It talked about his life as a developing artist and how at first he wanted to be a fine artist, but through s series of events out of his control, he accidentally entered himself into an animation course instead at Cal arts. Of course he fell in love, and talked about working under one of the original nine old men. 

You want to create pieces like beauty and the beast, the little mermaid, he was also A great part of the movie tangled, where his style artistically influenced the movie. 

Basically in his podcast as a inspirational quote to those listening, he said that a lot of the time that, even while he was in school he believed that there was no work for him in animation. He called it a calling, and it's what truthfully what I believe and feel. I absolutely loved it and it gave me so much hope. 

# 10: Inspiration pieces

 I finally received my acceptance letter from Disney so it put in extra pep in my step.

All I did this week was sleep! And it was wonderful and I will sorely miss it!

          The dream I had:

I had a dream, that a young girl was living with a family of monsters, the kind that you would see in horror movies. 

Though they made meals out the wasteful lives of other human beings, they did not hurt her, for they loved her greatly. She was one of them, and she felt the same, so she loved her life very much growing up with the monsters. 

She even loved one of the monsters so much, that they had planned to be together and each other's forever, even though their mortalities as well as appetites were so very different. 

But then one day, A bigger and scarier monster found the family, and decided to make a quick meal of them all. You did not see its face, and it is presumed that it did not have onel, but it made proof of its existence known from the ravenous root-like tendrils that took ones life breath. 

It consumed the family of monsters, and as the girl ran away with her lover behind, her life with the monsters was no more.

When she felt safe enough to catch her breath, she turned around to her lover, but found that he was not behind her anymore, and she didn't know for how long. 

She accepted her fate, and entered herself into a Catholic convent, where the monster continuously haunts her. 

Post 9: inspiration pieces

This is a house that I found on a site of abandoned places. The moment I saw it, I wanted it. 

My wonderful friend Amber. Dressing up as a reference photo for my piece. 

Another one of my good friends Courtney, is a mermaid, which I'm going to use for my next piece.

Post 9: In progress

She has a proper face now. Excited to move onto hair. 

Post 8: inspiration pieces

I found This at my local book shop, It was filled of work by my favorite animators, including work by Tyrus Wong, the artist who inspired the artistic theme of Bambi. I wanted it so bad, but it cost about over 100 dollars...

I was walking out of Michael's, and came upon this, and my first thought was "oh look a frog" it didn't occur to me that it was orange.

Van Gogh had been a very big inspiration for me this week, for a painting I had to paint myself as somebody else. I chose Van Gogh.

Material's Cost List

Lemon Yellow 37ml Oil Paint - $4.98
Cerulean Blue 37ml Oil Paint - $4.98
Canvas - $10
Photoshop Elements- Free with a purchase of a Drawing tablet
Wood Canvas - Being Friends with Russel
Sunglasses - $12 

Post #7: Inspiration pieces

This is a dragon snake, this snoot is from Thailand and cannot survive in captivity. This one has pretty scales. 

This viral post of an older woman painting using an iPad. Gives me hope.

This week is my challenge to paint like him. Hopefully...

Post #7: This weeks work

Here are some character designs that I have made for the girl in my story Coin, entirely done in photoshop. 

Post #6: Finished work!

This is all the images compiled into one image. Quite excited on having them all in one place, but even more excited on having them in the physical realm.

Post 6#: response to reading

Someone had called her name. They said it softly, as if it to not offend her with any volume. It was small, yet she knew it well, she even loved it. Well, she used to. She could feel the voice move behind her though it remained silent, shifting uneasily to an unheard beat. She ignored it, continuing to wash the dishes as she had done before, and feeling her face wet with the soft steam and sweat. It Called to her again, softer yet more pleading, as if that yearned for her attention. Yet she still did not look up. In her mind there was no reason to. She knew exactly her feeling towards it. She did not want to give it the satisfaction of regard, for she was unhappy with it, And it was in her right to be so. Leave me alone. "She whispered to her teeth pretending that she was some other creature than the dishwater pruned girl she was now. The voice sighed, but remained, unmoved by her quiet threat. It stepped forward to her cautiously, and to her surprise, spoke in a voice that tugged at the strings of her heart. "I'm sorry." It said, in an apologetic voice filled with meaning. She stopped washing the dishes in her hand then, letting it go softly into the water and feeling a slight thunk as it hit the bottom of the sink. "You ruined my trust." She said barely moving her lips, looking down to the stilling dishwater. She could feel him tense, it permeated the air with it.  "I know I shouldn't have, but it was just so..." It spoke, trailing off into a memory. It shook its  head, and turned her longingly. , If you want, we can go get another, it doesn't close for another 10 minutes." She shifted as a response, and only that as intended. "I'll get you the combo." She turned her head slightly to catch him in a peripheral vision, and seeing he's waiting face, she nodded softly.

He lightened, relieved he said "lettuce go because we mayo be late." She turned to him, and with an expressionless face she retorted, "guess I butter ketchup."

Post #6: Inspiration Pieces

Me adulting for the first time.

Seeing my younger sibling turn into a little women.

Finding pieces of art that have meaning.9

Reading assignment responses: #1

1.The work that I've made that I feel is mostly mine, is the type of work That tells a story without words. It's with people, and situations, that come up in my head. It's emotional expression that the characters have on their face, it's the feeling of the scene. What I do is when I create a piece I work out the story along the way. So that if there's anything that I see makes sense I put it in. 

2. I enjoy a lot of works from illustrators, particularly that of Craig Thompson, Maurice Sendak and the animator John Lasseter. Disney is the main influence of my work, for they are great contributor of the animation field as well as their quality of storytelling. These influences affect my work by giving me inspiration to have a quality such as they have I want to be able to tell stories in a similar setting. 

3.

The reason why humans cannot survive without art could be that are is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Art is evidence that we as living creatures can conceptualize and create other forms of expression and communication that surpasses the use of how we regularly communicate. Without art, we are merely surviving.

4. I agree with all of it for art is something that has come a lot from mere reaction.  By reacting to something, One must come up with a way to respond, of course as infinite as the imagination is so is the responses. Basically, the individual has come upon a problem to where they try to understand the world around them. 

5.

What I noticed about myself is that I'm easily distracted, but at times it comes as an advantage to me. When I've allowed myself to give in, i'm able to enter a world where I am able to create, and be able to tune out the other around me. This is very prevalent when I'm procrastinating. I've always noticed in my work, that the story always has a heroine, it's been this way since I was small and making comics on the back of my math binder. They would be met with a problem, an evil villain, that would disable them in someway. But towards the end of the story they would always triumph. 

6. I care about a lot of things, I care about creativity and the imagination. I care about storytelling, and lessons that can be found within them.  I care about the beauty of a child's mind, simple and unhindered by what society deems as important. 

Art 21 Post# 5: Kara Walker

Kara walker

Carl Walker is an artist that uses history gender race and sexuality throughout your entire work. In a very narrative format, she tells stories using silhouettes and the entire space around the audience, to make them feel a part of the scene. However a lot of her work does mostly depict scenes that are often The unpolite version of history, and will make the viewers uncomfortable. But that's what Kara wants. A lot of inspiration comes out of the 19th century particularly from the book, gone with the wind, where a certain scene is the main part of a focal point. She uses silhouettes so that her work can have an anonymous an vague feel of about it. Her main thing was taking fiction and portraying it has fact. I like walkers work because it has a very narrative quality to it, which I greatly enjoy. Overall she's on my favorite artists.

Post #5: Inspiration pieces

This is something I found on my way home. I loved how beautiful it looked, so I took a picture.

Mr. Flagler with Mardi Gras beads and a hibiscus flower in hand.

What I received earlier today :)

Art 21: Ai Wei Wei: Redo

The artist that I've decided to do is Ai Wei Wei, a Chinese Artist as well as human rights activist. One of his main areas of focus in all of his work, be it photography sculptures or performance work, he always puts an element of politics of the time in hopes of creating a conversation of the subject. However he was arrested by the Chinese Government in the April 2011 and held incommunicado for three months. The video starts at a point where unveils a showcase of his work, but without him there due to his circumstances. It was his assistants that spoke with Art 21. 

It was scary watching this, because they are all so soft spoken, as if he was dead rather than held captive. Thankfully though they were able to get an interview with Ai Wei Wei, on the condition that they only ask him about his art. I like his work, because it is so filled with things to say, about culture, about politics, about anything that has meaning to it.  There is narrative there, a concrete sort that is prevalent to those who can see it. 

Art21 Post #4: Janine Antoni: Redo

One of my other favorite artist, Janine and Tony is one of those special creators that uses her body, personal materials and memories into her pieces. In the video she has made a rope that is made up of a slew of different materials, ranging from pieces donated and created by friends to grandmother's dresses. She talked on how the rope represented her life, and how each piece of the material represents an experience that she had been through, and As she explains she talks about each bit of length of the rope, and what each bit meant. She goes on talking about different pieces, like her Eureka peace and her 2038 piece where she laid in a water manger for cows. I like her work because I feel that it's very representative of The thought process and how we feel, and experience things around us. I feel that a lot of her stuff has weight once given meaning, which I feel is very important in a contemporary piece. 

Dragon's Body

Post 4# Inspiration Pieces

This is tea, which has helped a great deal, with my dealings of this project.

This is Puff, he helps me with appearances and judgmental stares.  

Here is Amber, helping me find the shadows.

My Dragon

This is my dragon whom I've named Detarak, He was digitally painted and will be used for a tunnel book piece I'am to create.

Week 4: 3 Inspiration Pieces

Working on it!

Post # 3 :Inspiration Pieces

The Tiger's crouching Body has been a great inspiration for me in this piece, for the dragon is crouching down and gives it a predatory look.

This book has been a wonderful source of resource for me and the characteristics of Dragons.

This is a video of a man who had befriended a giant crocodile. I've always like connections like this.