school is more important than my social life (repeat in head)

world issues.
wha... what
I should really be studying... should have been all day, but instead I decided chillin with the peeps at a school function would be smart. I'm so very smart. At least I'm no longer failing world issues.... I have like a 60%.... still not the greatest.
This november progress report might be bad news. I have to apply for university this month. I've been procrastinating. Should get on that. I will print the shit off this week sometime.
I'm in the mood to sit around and draw and paint. I have a couple ideas of the things I would like to do.
Hopefully this week is no where near as stressful as last week. 

getting ready for school

This is my version of getting ready for school. Completing the collage that will remain on my binder the entire year. It consists of various singers, bands, movie posters, and pieces of art that I like. It took entirely too much time and I think I may hand it in as a part of my sketchbook for art. The mess in my room is also the result of this... paper and pictures everywhere!

Painting

Mid term for art this year, I finally brought it home! haha
Giving it away now though :P 

inspirations

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source ive been on this ride :D

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Inspiration for my final art composition.

Pin up

I finally finished my pin up girl. I drew her pretty much from ideas in my head. She's a canadian military girl bending over and leaning on a C7A1 rifle. It's really cool. It didn't turn out exactly like I wanted in some areas but I am done with it. I cannot fix the things I do not like about it now, and hopefully other people will not notice the mistakes.
I will not be posting a copy of it online for about a week because it is a present for a certain someone and he hasn't seen it yet, and he wont until i come!
I've been thinking about this piece and working on it forever so I am really happy to have it done and ready in time to hand in my sketchbook. I really hope mrs. nickel doesn't flip out that i drew a pin up girl xD lol... It's not super risque or anything.
And of course starring at it I realize a major mistake on it.... oops. I HATE that. Good thing it wont be in my room or else I would only look at the mistake. No one else will probably notice but grrr... Not telling what it is either or else that's all you'll see. 

Stop motion movies

I am in love with stop motion short films lately. They are so pretty and interesting. I decided to attempt my own and now I know they are also a LOT of work! haha
When it's done i'll post it but it's super simple and for a school project... so it's also about the Winnipeg drinking water system xD FUN!!!!!
It sucks, but whatever, it's my first. First of many I suspect!

on the subject of love.

source.

This company makes cute little prints about love and with sayings of other topics as well. Very cute.

inspiration

I need some inspiration. Im feeling hella creative and I have all these ideas but no way to express them exactly. Im thinking of doing a painting. Not a hand in one, i mean it will be in sketchbook. But I think it'll end up too personal for anyone to stare at it too closely.
I just am having a little dry spell with actual visual ideas. 

The Un-Adventures of Lionel the Lazy Unicorn

might create more if i become bored another night...
but for now I will be like lazy Lionel :)

... this looks super simple... NOT AT ALL
lol
:)
Lionel <3

p.s. for some reason it does not loop on blogger... so you must reload to view again.

Once again Harry, I

too much of you. 

Father.

drawings with meaning

I have taken to drawing things that I actually have a personal connection to or that are going off of my opinions on things. And more freehand as well. Usually I take a picture of someone famous whom I admire and I draw them, but lately I have been doing more conceptual drawings from my head. It's fun and no one can tell you that you did the nose wrong or something because it comes from your head and not an actual image.
I drew a gay pride flag with the word "judge" in bold letters across the front. Not because I think you should judge people for being gay! No. Just because that's what people do when they hear, see or think of anything associated with the LGBT community.
I also drew a robot satirizing society and what people are always thinking about. I don't know. It makes sense in my mind.
I have to start coming up with ideas for what I am going to do my major project painting on for art class... I know I am doing it in the style of Degas though. I love his style! ug such greatness. Not that I will ever be able to pull it off. But I'll sure as hell try!

☂sketchbook project

I found this project online where you submit a themed sketchbook and I am thinking seriously of doing it. I have been thinking entirely too hard on what I could do with the different themes and I really want to stick with the ones that not many people are touching (there is a little pie chart to see what ones are the most popular). I want do create a concept in my sketchbook that is entirely my own and that is maybe even a little creative! I still don't know which theme to do, or even if my ideas are possible to convey on paper, or I mean for me to convey on paper! The themes are kind of out there and strange which makes my mind go all over the place and makes it impossible to keep focused on one theme, which is why i'm not even going to send in for the sketchbook or sign up until I have the idea in my head for sure and maybe a rough draft around here somewhere! I think it would be amazing to have people actually see my ideas and views on the world through my artwork.

yours,
a dancer.

☂artsy

I just got back from this exhibit the environmental design first year students put on at the university and it was really quite cool! It was all types of architecture and design but since it was first year it was not the boring models of buildings like I thought it would be. It was interactive art. I loved the atmosphere and if S didn't go with me I probably would have stayed longer and talked with the designers about their projects. The people there are my kind of people. They are all mac, artsy, stylish, and crazy about art. It makes me happy. It makes me really itch to go to university whenever I visit there. I would love to go to an exhibit put on by the fine art students. After me and S were walking back to the car and we were talking about my future and what I wanted to do with my life. She is so hard to be around sometimes especially when I am talking about my future because I want to be the starving artist type that creates beautiful things and maybe work in photography for a magazine or something cool like that but she says that I must choose something that will actually give me a living and to be realistic, but if it is something that I am willing to work for then it could be possible. I mean yes I will have to choose a back up plan. Possibly go into something that I am only half happy with so that I have something to fall back on, but my first choice is art. Anything and everything related to it.
I have no idea what I would like to do with my future and right now that is okay because I am only 15 (16 very very soon!) and I have time to figure this all out. I will probably change my mind about a million times before I figure it out but lots of people don't figure it out until university. So I think I am doing fine :)

On sunday I am going shopping with janelle and adriana for new summer clothes because I hate everything I own pretty much. I mean some of it I can work with but I need some new stuff. And i need new bras and underwear ^^ I love bra shopping haha
I am strange
i know
:D

yours,
a dancer.

☂Drawing

I have gotten back into drawing and art in general for the last few days. I have literally been running around the house trying to fit all of my ideas into the time that I have had! I still feel like drawing but I have run out of ideas for the moment. I am sure that will not last though! Only one of the drawings I am truly proud of though. The others did not turn out quite as planned.

This is my self-portrait. It does not look finished but it is. when it is framed it will not look unfinished. I really love this one! The picture it is based off of is from a year ago. My mum thinks I look even younger in it though.

That is the colosseum that I was drawing about a week ago. In this picture it is not finished but I did finish it and I like it. I do not have it with me now though so I cannot take a finished picture.

I just thought this was cute so I drew it :)

This is my mum's mother's day gift:) I do not actually know when mother's day is... but I know it is soon so I did this for it! haha I really love the quote.

This one I really hate because it does not look like who it is supposed to be at all! It is supposed to be twiggy, the model, but it looks nothing like her. I have given up on it because it is beyond repair... I cannot even erase it well because it is in charcoal.

Well those are all of my drawings! for now at least :)

yours,
a dancer.

☂Alexander McQueen

I just found out that McQueen hung himself... I am not entirely sure if this is 100% true or not but it makes it all the more sad! He was brilliant! His clothes, although mostly not worn by everyday people, were works of art! They were revolutionary. I will be honest, before he died I did not know much about him or his clothes. I had heard the name but that was pretty much it... but now I see that the world has lost yet another brilliant artist! I guess they are all too good for what our world can offer. Like Van Gogh.
I just wish that people could see the beauty in the world and the hope. There is nothing in this world that is worth ending your life over. It is all fixable.
Maybe he thought that he had completed his work... I do not know.

yours,
a dancer.

☂reading

So I am reading A Brave New World. It is so strange! I mean it is crazy to think about if the world was actually like this! I would not enjoy it at all! I am not very far at all in it though. I have been starting my painting that I am doing for a friend instead... I really should get a move on though because it is due soon!
I can't wait until summer! FREEDOM! haha^^

The painting that I am doing is a surprise for kyra so I wont post a picture but it is going to be really cool! I really want to get good enough so that I can paint this:

I really love this picture! And I dont want to even attempt it until I can actually paint well! I can't wait! ^^
In art we are doing huge compositions in pen and ink and watercolor paint. I am doing one based off of old singer machines. I am going to give it to nana:) I really hope that it turns out okay!

yours,
a dancer.

☂Drawing again

I have decided to draw one of my all time childhood idols. Alexis Bledel. I used to watch gilmore girls and also sisterhood of the travelling pants and she was always the one I wanted(want) to be like. When I first got into my private school I was so excited because I got to be like rory gilmore:P And growing up reading the sisterhood books I thought that Alexis fit the role of lena more than perfectly!
I hope I dont screw up this picture because the photograph is gorgeous!!!

yours,
a dancer.

☂DONE!

Coeur de pirate:

It is bigger in real life. The scanner wasn't big enough to scan the whole picture and I changed the nose a little after I scanned it. 

yours,

a dancer.