2/25/12 Entry

Okay so the big painting is starting to take shape. Instead of doing a complex plan with a specific style scheme, I'm winging this one.
Because of my diminished time, I had to find a more suitable way of painting that would work better with the amount of time I have left. And find it, I did!

I got a new art tool a couple weeks ago that I've been meaning to try out and use, and now I have, and I've discovered that it helps me a lot because I paint a lot faster. And I love the results. The job looks rushed, but in a good way, like time is passing in the painting. Which is good because that's what I was trying to capture.
I haven't been to concerned about the colors. I mean, it's a picture of my life, I should pick the colors I want. I've also become less worried about getting all the details right, which is a good thing because I don't have enough time to worry about the details.
The thing that I really like about this new "technique" is that it makes this painting stand out from the others; it makes it seem more raw and real.

2/20/12 Entry

Okay, so I've drawn out my third painting on the canvas and I'm about ready to start. I'm still not really sure what I want the final thing to look like, and I'm kind of scared considering that I don't have much time to experiment/mess up.

I'm also going to ask my mentor if she can help me start the essay, or at least outline it, because I do not even know where to start with that.

2/16/12 Entry

Okay so Venice is officially done. That's good. Now I just have to do the big painting and the essay. In like, three weeks. Oh God.

I'm definitely worried about the timeline.
I'm going to see if I can get started on the essay/get some help during lunch, so that I don't have so much to worry about later.
I just know that I have to start the big painting and do it quickly, no messing up and having to re-paint on top of the mess up. It's worrisome, cause that's what I've done for the first three paintings.

It's just hard to focus, knowing that I still have so much to do in so little time.

2/2/12 Entry

Okay, so the deal is, I haven't posted in a really long time. I also haven't been working o the project very much. Oops. Guilty face.
So I'm officially hitting the re-start button. Not on the whole project, obviously, but on myself. I have to get going.

On the bright side, I've finished the first two small paintings. And I'm halfway through with the third one.
On the down side,  I still have to finish the third one, do the big one, and write the essay. And I have five weeks. Ouch. Pained face.

I'm going to go work on the third painting now, hopefully get close to finishing it, and [try to] check back in tomorrow. I'm worried I won't have time to do everything, especially write a really nice essay, so I'm going to try to cram in the rest of the painting this weekend and next week. Hopefully that works. Hopeful face.

11/18/11 Entry

Procrastination. Procrastination. Procrastination. Why, oh why have you taken over me?

Okay, so I actually started my first painting about 2 weeks ago and then I didn't write about it here. Oops.
It's looking really good, and I hope to finish it up this weekend.

I also drew up an outline of a plan. It really just a rough division of my time but I will post it here and probably on the side bar.

1st and 2nd weeks of November: Do first small painting.
3rd and 4th weeks of November: Do second small painting.

1st and 2nd weeks of December: Do last small painting.
3rd and 4th weeks of December: Start big painting.

January: Finish big painting.

February: Personal Statement (essay thing).


I know it seems like a lot of time to just paint, but i am really slow. Seriously. So slow. -.-
I already feel like I'm kind of behind, like I should be finished with this painting already. It's partly because I made this painting really realistic and I'm taking care to but in every little detail, which takes me a long time because I'm a big perfectionist. Also because I probably started later than I meant to. And then it's partly because I'm SO slow.

I've decided that the next two paintings, I'm going to change them up, do things a little differently. I'm going to paint them in different styles, especially one of them is going to be Impressionist style. It is a style of painting where you use a lot of paint, thick brush strokes, bright colors, and there is few small details defined. I think this is going to fix two things; a) It will take me less time, because i won't go crazy with the details and such, so it'll put me back on track. And b) I'll be painting in a way that I've never painted before, so it'll help me expand as an artist.

9/26/11 Entry

Okaii, so. On Friday i turned in my project proposal AND my mentor contract sheet. Go me. Yay.

So now, I'm flipping out about the research. Like seriously, who knew there were so many types of art supplies. And I'm seriously having doubts about deciding to paints in oils. I've never done that before, and with the research I've done, it seems so much harder than I thought. >:\
I think I'm going to practice a bit with the oils first and the see if i actually want to use them in my final product. I hope I get the hang of them because I really wanted to incorporate something that I'd never used in my project.
And I also started sketching and planing exactly what scenes I'm going to incorporate in my painting.
         
              Ahhh so much planning :P

9/20/11 Entry

Okay, so quickly checking in:

• I pretty much know what I'm doing- just kind of the rough outline that i need for right now to start researching and stuff. I can work out the finer details as I go along...

• The project proposal is due in 3 days, so i need to draw that up soon!

• I asked the MYP coordinator at my school to be my mentor and she said yes, so now i have to draw up the mentor contract sheet thing.... (due OCT 7)

So, yeah....  I think I'm going to start drawing up a list of materials this week so I can go to the art store during the weekend, and kinda see how much I'm going to be spending for this project.