For the second marking period I didn’t know what to do until one day I was so angry that I wanted to draw how angry I was. I realize I need something to do for the art and I thought that I should draw about my feelings. The first picture is about how I wanted to go back to Africa while I was talking to my friends from Africa. The flowers next to it are one of my favor flowers from Africa. The second picture was drawled before taking a math quiz and the only way I would have remember one of the question on the quiz was by drawing it. The third picture was drawled the day I realize my block is a long block. Since I live at the end of the block and every time I walk up the block I feel like I’m walking a mile. The fourth picture was drawing the day I got my history benchmark, I felt like I was in hell because I didn’t know what to do but then when I was done with the benchmark I was so happy that I felt like I was in heaven an that’s my definition of heaven and hell. When the fifth was drawing when I went back to the middle school I used to attend and I saw some of the pictures I toke during middle schooling and I want to redraw them into one picture. The last picture was drawled the last day this project to was due because I want to sign off, that I’m done with is project. I really enjoy doing this project because I got to   draw how I felt most of the time and every time I draw my feelings I feel good about it. With or without this project I will continue drawing my feelings.

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How I wish I could look back to understand
Back to when lives were taken
Back to when families were separated
Back to when children were murdered
I wish I could have helped to same them
I wish I could have tried to understand this senseless taking of human life, they were no different than you or I
They did not deserve this pain, this torture
I wish I could look back to understand, to set lives free to learn their pain and frustration
Trying to understand;
I can hear their screams, I can hear their pain, I can hear their fear
I can hear a mother’s cry when children are shot down
Oh, that pain so great, so terrible
I can smell the odor, the odor of burning human life
I can smell the sweat, the sweat of hard labor
I can smell the fear, such an atrocity
I can see footage today, trying to learn what had happened to them
I watch the films today, trying to comprehend the pain they went through
We all see the pictures, watch the torture just trying to imagine this tragedy
But the fact is we can’t, unless our human life undergoes this
These poor people, my heart cries out but there is nothing I can do
Oh, please hear me. I am so sorry this had to happen to you
You time is, now, it is here, time o treat, time to be reunited and live everlasting in that great kingdom called HEAVEN

       My heart burns for your love

My lips burn for your kiss

My body burns for your touch

I wish I could love you

I wish I could kiss you

I wish I could touch you

There aren’t enough emotions in the world to express my love for you

But you don’t know how I feel

Not once have I felt your love

Not once have I felt your kiss

Not once have I felt your loving touch

If only I could

My world would be complete

If only you were in it

If only you could love me

Even if it’s only for a day

If I could love you, kiss you, and touch you

It will heal my burning desire

When I first started our quarter 2 project, I didn't know what I wanted to do nor what I wanted to accomplish. Then our teacher said that we were given the option to do whatever we please, from cooking, to writing poetry, painting, drawing, etc. When I heard this I then thought that I wanted to do something that resembled me and who I was as a person. As a person I like nature, expressing my self or opinion in words, and taking something that might look ugly or worthless and turning into something beautiful. So then I decided that I was going to write poetry and take pictures of nature and the things that I love. Over the course of the next few weeks, the poetry didn't come to me at once. I had to get inspiration sometimes while other times I would come into the class, listen to music and instantly started to write. When I write my true feelings come out and my opinion and voice is heard. Sometimes I try to put myself into other peoples shoes so that I know what they've been through because poetry is about expressing yourself while getting your point across. When I took pictures, I took pictures of things that amazed me, concerned me, or I thought was beautiful. Most pictures of are nature, my house in the snow or my friends and family. I was able to finish my project but I would have liked to take more pictures and write more poems maybe on different aspects of my life and of how I feel about certain objects and current events.

Below are some photos that I had photo shopped. Some pictures I can't the lighting, setting while to others I added more things to the picture and added font. Each picture took me about 30-60 minutes to do for the fact that I didn't know how to use photoshop. I used it a few times just for adding text with the picture, but I was never really advanced at it. So while I did each picture I learned new things as well as completing my art project.

    For second quarter, I originally wanted to do something with photography, but since I couldn't find the USB for my camera, I decided to draw and paint my favorite characters. I wanted bright colors in each picture and this made me think of Andy Warhol paintings. So I decided to make each background a different color. I'm not finished the project yet, because I still need to finish the background of two pictures and I need to put the physical pictures together. I put the pictures I have together in the style I wanted using Pages.
    I still need to finish the background for Kirby (which is going to be red) and the Cheshire Cat. I also need one final character, whose background will be purple. [Thanks to everyone who helped me think of characters to draw!]

For second quarter, we focused on what we wanted to do. I wanted to paint which I did, but I just stopped. I didn't know what to draw. I had one point of focus but it didn't come clear to me anymore. So I decided to make a purse out of a shirt. I had a plain t-shirt lying around and I don't use it anymore so I decided to make something out of it because I didn't wanna throw it away. I started to think about I like. And I came up with cities. I'm a city girl. One of my favorite city is New York. So I cut out a part of a t-shirt and sewed it onto the purse. I also sewed some other things that I liked. As you can see, I created a peace sign hand, city life, and love. Overall, this project wasn't hard. It took a lot of time and cause a lot of pain.

In quarter two we had a choice of what we wanted to do. So I did a series of sketches. Then I did the beginning of a comic. I used youtube to get some how on my shading techniques. My sketches resemble some characters form the popular manga Naruto. 

First page of my comic.


Just a sketch 



Another Sketch 


Sketch based off of the popular manga Naruto


Another Sketch based off the maga Naruto.

In the second quarter I focused on using different types of materials to draw the same image. One evening I found myself watching a PBS special on Bob Ross. He was instructing viewers on the importance of different techniques and methods. His focus was too on nature and its natural beauty. His idea about landscape and finding beauty in the middle of disaster are what lead my final project this quarter.

I chose to draw a tornado in the middle of a grass field because tornadoes are some of the most destructive natural disasters. The rip up and destroy everything in their path. They leave every thing out of place, and yet they make a new landscape,  one where beauty must be found in the midst of disaster.

This is the first drawing. It was done with oil pastel and in color.

This was the second drawing. It was done  in black charcoal.

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In the first quarter we focused on recycling and the human impact on the environment. We collected bottle caps. The collection of the bottle caps was to help inspire the pieces created by the students during that quarter and to remove them from the environment.

My sketch is of a hand reaching back toward the earth.  There is a  small recycle symbol in the top right had corner. The hand is pure. It is white, but surrounding it are the negative energies that accompany pollution. The earth matches its environment. Polluted. As the hand reaches back to support the earth, the negative energies fade away. 

This is the final product.