And so ends spring break (suppress your disappointment)

ah, yes. brace yourselves for another grueling two and a half months of school. honestly, I don't think I've ever been so relieved with the arrival of spring break. so, as usual, at the beginning I had an entire mental list of things I was going to do to get myself organized. and, as usual, I completed about a twelth of them. that would be vacuuming, and completing homework. foremost, I wanted to clean out my room and my backpack,  which unfortunately gets quite heavy as it is weighed down by the accumulated weight of last semester's papers. when my room gets too messy, I can't think. anyways, I did just finish both my concentration pieces for this month, which is a great relief. I love our art class. I'll miss it come summer. Okay, here are the concentration pieces: (feedback would be greatly appreciated)

I struggled quite a bit with this top piece. Well, actually, I had quite a bit of fun. The rocks were all done with a palette knife, which gives nice texture--I just had a hard time making them look like rocks. I haven't done much palette knife work in the past. Maybe just a few spots here and there in some of my past paintings. It's a really different style than what I'm used to, but I absolutely love using the palette knife.

This was the first piece I finished, and throughout the entire time I worked on it, I felt like something just wasn't right. It wasn't until I was cleaning off my palette that I realized that I had put that one bush right smack in the center of the painting, vertically speaking. Maybe sometime I'll crop it. But right now, I'm sort of sick of looking at it.

HP coming up

Hmmm. What to write, what to write. Four months and two days until Harry Potter 7 comes out! Yeah!

Well, this week hasn't been all too exciting. Eat, sleep, do homework. Eat, sleep, do homework. Last night (Friday) my family and I watched this rather bad King Arthur movie. There were all these sappy falling-in-love scenes that were great for snickering at. Well, actually, I pretty much snicker at any falling-in-love scene. In general, I don't watch romantic comedies. They all seem the same.

Last concentration pieces

Hey everyone. Here are my last two February concentration pieces; I'd appreciate it if you could give me a little bit of feedback on them. As a reminder, my incredibly profound concentration is "people at the mercy of nature." Yeah, the plant type (don't snicker).



Does this look like me, out of curiosity? Everyone always says that my self-portraits don't look like me. Before I die, I'd like to create one that does. Anyways, first time I ever did a person in watercolor. It was nerve-wracking.

Oh, one last thing. This weekend, on Saturday night, I saw Castle in the Sky. Really sweet movie. Love Miyazaki's work. Well, it just so happens that the guy who played Luke Skywalker had a voice role in it. My dad can't stand Luke or any of the old Star Wars films because, in his words, Luke is too much of a "goody goody two-shoes." Now, in my humble opinion, no one knows the true meaning of "goody goody two-shoes" until one's read Oliver Twist. Oliver was enough to make even me nauseous. Honestly, no one is that good. NO ONE. Anyways, turns out that Luke Skywalker voices the role of Muska (best-guess spelling), who is like the ultimate evil guy. He does a good job of sounding evil, too. I just found that amusing, especially since I thought muska meant fly in Spanish. Though, according to my dad, it doesn't.