Taking more of my sweet time.

Another day of Spring break; Another day of painting. I finished the yin yang symbol at the top and worked on the plums and blossoms.

How I felt: so frustrating!! I kept messing up on the plums and making them too dark! Also the blossoms were a bit hard because they were so small and i drew them kinda funky. From waht I saw on the pictures, the blosoms shoudl be a pink color and for me they came out purple... but i felt that it woudl ba creative way of putting it on there. still, i got mad at myself for that.

Time used: 2 hours for panting.

Springness

Over Spring Break I work on my painting. I got the top of the jar painted and also painted the yin-yang symbol. Although this wasnt much i messed up constantly so I had to stop to do it over nd over again. when i finished that I worked on the label and the insides of the jar, touching up a little bit more.

How I felt: It was a bi tfrustarting to paint the top of the jar a couple of times and going back oer it with blue but all-in-all it came out great. Im proud with myself and only hope that the rest of the painting would come out just as well.

Time used: 2 hours painting.

On my own.

I talked to Mrs. Flohr today to get more help on my painting but while i did i also asked onwaht i should do. Spring break was coming up soon and I didnt kno when to come in to get help. With that she gave me permission to take the painting home and work on it myself. with this i could do it on my own and then just come to her when I needed help or when the whole thing was done to get it touched up. I was extremely excited but nervous at teh same time.

How I felt: stated above. I didnt feel like i was ready enough to finish my painting ad make it look really good without her. but i would try...

Time used: 10 minutes talking to her

30 minutes painting on that day after school

Still working

Today I came in before school to get some painting done since Mrs. Florh had some business to attend to after school and I wouldnt be able to visist. I did some of the painting of the sky and that was it.

How I felt. : I was frustrated fora bit since i couldnt get the stroke order riht. However, it got a bit better as I went along... Im proud of myself. I just hope I get it done in time.

Time used: 1/2 an hour for painting.

Tutroring...

I stayed after school today and got some mentoring in. Shes a really good teacher and i learned a lot fro mher but it was still kinda hard to follow her ideals and try to adapt them as my own. for example was the brush strokes. Me, being left-handed, went a different way in paingin thatn Mrs. Flohr would want me to go. This made things a bit different to change the way i made the brush strokes.

How I felt: i felt like a learned something but at the same time.. I feel frustrated. I wanted to work on my painting my own way and i forget that mrs flohr is my mentor and im learning under her wing...

Time used:1 and a 1/2 hours trying to learn to paint/ painting.

The next step...

Being very eager at the time i awnted to start right away since i wanted to lean quickly. So Mrs Flohr decided to let me work during lunch. This was good for me since i wasnt hungry at the time and lunch time is the perfect time to work....

The first step in making a painting is picking a picture and transfoerring it onto the other medium..which is teh canvas.

So i took My Soul and put it on a projector to draw it out onto the 24-30 canvas.


How I felt: It was really night to get it started to quickly and I enjoyed it a lot. However. My arm hurts. THe projector projected the picture onto the wall so i had to draw it vertically...

Lets get this painting started

Today I went to go and drop of my supplies in mrs. Flohros office and talk to her on whats the best time to get my mentoring in. We both came up with the scedule after school for the first hour everyday except fridays, tuesdays and somtimes wedsdays.

How i felt :I feel that this schedurle is good with me since it gives me time to schedule rides and also a perfect time to ask quesions. we also talked about coming in during lunch to take care of some things.

Time used: 15 minute meeting.

Final Decision.

I went through my sketchbooks once agian and picked one finally. ITs oging to be my Soul, the one that goes will with the poetry. why did i pick it? cau i feel it would be streatch and challenge to panint. also it would be fun to paint and go well with my poetry .with it tieng to something thta i can read off to my audience maybe that will help me with my speech....

So i redrew the entire picture; I searched for picrures of real charactes in the painting, redrew them and also rewrote the poetry that im going to use.

How i feeL :im extremely tired but it will all pay off, im sure.

Time used: 4 hours to find the picture, redraw it, search for models for my painting and rewrite poem.

Supply Shopping

My mother and I went to Michaels and went shopping for my supplies. we got 3 stretch canvases; one that was 24 x 30 while 2 were 20 x 18. I also got a set of paint burshes, a 6 set of acrylic paints with extra black and white. Afterwards wetn in target in search of paper, pencils to redraw the sketches.

How I felt: it was really nice in the beginning but then i got really tired... and whiny.

time used: 2 1/2 hours shopping at both stores (minus stopping to getting lunch. )