AP Art Show

The AP Art show was great! Everyone's art looked amazing on display. Great job everyone!

So I'm trying to write my artist statement and I realized that any way that I word my concentration it sounds choppy and incoherent. How the hell do you write down these figments of ideas in your head to create an understandable, well-written artist statement? It sounds like I just cut a passage out of a biology book about DNA and animalistic behavior and am trying to incorporate art into all of it. I'm starting over.

By the way, if you haven't looked at sculptures by Ron Mueck, you should look at them now. They are extremely realistic beyond belief.

I really don't know what to write about because nothing much has changed from last week except for the fact that I am completely fed up with my octopus project, especially the tentacles. I just want to be done with it! Anyway, I'm really excited for the AP show but at the same time, I still have a lot to do. I'm really excited to see everyone's work displayed.

So I need two more concentration pieces. I've been making an octopus teapot in class; however, I am unsure whether I want to include it in this year's portfolio.

Next project: wire cobra

I'm currently working an octopus teapot; however, as Jayla pointed out, its kind of too big to be a teapot. Therefore, its a watering can.

I finished by giraffe piece, finally. It looks nothing like how I imagined it. I realized that I spend longer developing an idea than I do actually making the piece; I should be spending more time on my pieces. I wish that my pieces were as strong as the ideas that I have in my head.

I was looking online at art made out of books and these really caught my eye. They are all very unique and are absolutely amazing. It inspires me to want to pick up a book and start cutting. This is not exactly related to my concentration; however, these pieces are of precise craftsmanship and have remarkable detail. Both of these traits are things that I strive for in my artwork.