Blog #1

            I think the easiest things to include in an art portfolio of your own would be work from your past years of doing art. Why? Because it's comforting to see how far you have came in your art, and how you should take the time, and improve your work from the past to add something new, or to keep the theme going in you past peace, but art doesn't come with out it's difficulties. I think learning how to always use what you have learned from the past, and combining with new things you learn will be the most difficult for me.
       I am very excited about doing pen and ink for the still life as our first class project. First of all I love pen, and ink, but don't have a lot of experience with it at all. Especially the dreaded quills, however, I look forward to seeing the little buggars again to use to my advantage to make my still life really something I can possibly be proud of. I would love a still life in my portfolio because it can show whomever sees it that you have the ability to pay attention to that kind of detail, and take the time to do it. Figure drawing I think will be a challenge along with self-portraits this year to use for my portfolio. I am willing to utilize my knowledge I have, and use what I know to add them to my portfolio. I was surprised that figure drawing was on the list though. I have to say I thought of that as more as observational free time type of drawing. Something to appreciate as you draw the subject, and just be in complete awe of what you have done. I plan to put in as much as a wide variety of things in the 2D media range as possible.
     As well as small 3D portfolio because I don't want to give up on possibly making projects that make me feel proud of what I have done, and be able to look back to see what I did in the past. I know that I want a still life, past work, and some new things that go along with my concentration in there. I want my portfolio to have variety of medias as well as a nice theme along with assigned projects, and concentration projects to really tell someone that I can do what I set my mind to. I would like to explore with 2D mixed media projects this year because I love doing mixed media project, and want more experience with them as well as using the to give more spice to my portfolio. When my portfolio before I head off to college is finished I want to show it to my future teachers, and let them give me their opinions as well as future fellow classmates about what they loved about it. Also what they think could be better. So I may take their view of what I have created into serious deliberation on what I can do to make it better.