Free Choice

For my free choice I want to kill two birds with one stone and do some projects that I am making as commotions for people. I have 4 of them to do, and I really just think I'm gonna get as many as I can done by that deadline and then turn in the best one. They are all portraits of people, and then one is a tattoo design for a friend.

Word Project (Locate)

Over all my work was really about exploring new things with my art. I tried lots of different mediums for each piece. I also really tried to get out of my comfort zone and really be lose with my mark making. I also tried to do less literal ideas with all of my pieces.
I am kind of also stuck in the "animation" mood right now (because of the class) and I really played that up and made a lot of my pieces look animated.
I found a new love for watercolor through this project and also collage as well.
My first piece was all about meditation and finding your inner soul.

The second one is about locating yourself as a person.

The last one is about locating ideas.

Word Project

I was really inspired by all the info-graphs that came up when I searched my word on Pinterest and Google. I would like to try using this theme in some of my pieces, it will probably be with collage or a very simplistic style of painting.
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http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=abstract%20art

This entire pinterest page of abstract art also really helped/inspired me. A lot of my pieces are literal, so if I paint them in an abstract way, they will seem a lot less literal and will be more interesting.





http://www.google.com/search?q=lovcate&safe=active&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=U14IVIOIB4OvggTp7IHgCA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw&biw=1366&bih=663&surl=1#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=locate&surl=1

I'm really not a reading person, and there was pretty much NO READING AT ALL on my word, so pictures really helped. I scrolled through this google page for about an hour and every picture helped me brainstorm. Each idea led to another, and somehow all of the pictures started to relate, which was neat.

Sooooooooo, school started again and I'm not a happy camper. Being a senior scares me, but art helps with that a ton! So anyway, still making art, still selling art, and still loving art.

WOW I'M POOPED!

So this is my first FULL week back in Pewaukee since the 4th of July! I was in Door County for about a week, then I was home for 2 days before I left for 8 days on a camping trip in the back country of Colorado. When I got home from that, I had another two days to pack for dance camp. After a week of dance camp, I spent 4 days at my Grandmas house in Racine. Now I am leaving in 2 days for a dance competition in Chicago but for now, I have to catch up on my art a little.
while I was in Door County, I actually spent a lot of time in art galleries and doing art related things.
http://doorcounty.com/what-to-do/arts-culture
http://doorcounty.com/dcvbmember.php?id=IL33254
http://doorcounty.com/dcvbmember.php?id=IL13832
here are just a few of the many galleries that I visited while I was there.


I have also been working a lot with different medias. I am very used to just using mainly acrylic paints, but I have been experimenting with colored pencils, markers, and watercolors. I have also done a few photo shoots since I will be doing a photography portfolio this year.

here is just on of the photos I 've been working on 

P.S. I also have been selling my art and also made a store on Etsy of some of it! https://www.etsy.com/shop/SidewaysArt?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Vacation Fun

Im currently in Door County with my family and ive been really inspried by all the shops and beaches here. Ive taken a lot of neat photos and also done some arty things in the one day I've been here. Today we went to a fun art studio called "Hands on" and paited pottery. I painted a dish to go along with the nautical theme to our house and my siblings painted a few other things. I am hoping to take more photos while in here and I will post those, as well as a few sketches from my sketch book.

I've been really busy lately with poms and Summerfest and all (scary to say I'm only gonna get busier every week). But anyway, the things I've done with my art in these past weeks is really trying to sell it. I have many offers right now but the ones I like the most are the commissions I have been doing for people. Just today I finished and sold a painting to a girl who's dog died and she wanted a painting to remember him by. I'm still working in a few others but that's all put on hold for a bit because I'm currently packing for vacation in Door County!