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Last Sketch Book :c

What was the most important or moving moment of our class? In other words, what part of this class should I keep to show every student I have in the future? (Was it learning about a particular artist, a particular assignment, a particular concept??)

The thing I found the most important was how inclusive of all mediums this class was. I remember in the first class meeting you asked us which mediums and tools we were the most comfortable with and all of the different answers I heard. At first, I was really surprised. This was my first college art class and I didn’t expect to do anything other than draw. Then the first sketchbook was assigned and I realized there was so much more I could do with my drawing and painting knowledge. I was so nervous trying to take a toothbrush portrait. But when I sat down to do it, I figured I’d use the shading and lighting knowledge I had to take the perfect photo. This being said, my absolute favorite assignment was the alter ego sketch book. I didn’t realize how much one simple picture could have behind it. Having to write out the characteristics of out alter and then bringing it to life through photography completely opened my eyes to how much I should be putting behind all of my works. When I sat down to start drawing again, I didn’t just want to keep replicating the same things over and over again. I wanted each one to have as much background as I had put into my alter ego photos. I never expected to get so much out of a photography assignment given it wasn’t my medium. Little things like that completely made this class for me.

 What was the most frustrating part of the class?

Ironically, the medium portion was also the most frustrating. Its definitely got me out of my comfort zone, which is something I needed as a new artist. But it was really hard to do. The synesthesia assignment was probably the most difficult. All my past work was always focused on clean lines and correct proportions. Moving anywhere away from that is a serious fear of mine. So working on the sketchbook made me realize I had a lot of work to do. It definitely moved me closer to understanding how certain colors blend together to create certain feelings. This is information I’m going to need if I’m going to continue on the path to becoming an artist.

 What are your creative/artistic goals for winter break?

I’m going to take what I’ve learned this semester and put it into my Christmas commission work. In the past, they’ve been a little flat. This year I’m going to make work that I’m proud of enough to hang on the wall in my house and other people’s.

 What are your creative/artistic goals for 2021?

For 2021, I want to be more consistent with producing works. I’m going to find every free second I have and work on as many pieces as I can handle. I’m also going to focus on building on what I know instead of trying to make finished pieces. If I can become more confident in my sketches and color combinations, I’ll be more comfortable putting my work online for a small following. This will make me more confident in my commissions so I can receive more for the time being. By the time 2022 rolls around, I’ll should be quicker in my sketch process making any type of business decisions I want to make more reasonable. Once I can start putting my works on clothing and labels, I’ll know I’m close.

 What are the first steps towards your goals?

My first steps are going to be to practice, practice, practice! More sketches, less full blown finished projects. The finished results take too long because the fundamentals take a long time to be “perfect” to me. If I can slowly teach myself through practice like I used to do, I’ll become more confident in my abilities and faster at completing tasks. I’m going to start carrying another sketch book around, like I used to do, instead of stressing every time I sit down with my iPad to make something. Getting back to the basics myself will make commissions more personal and enjoyable to me. This always makes things easier.

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A place in my community that has a gigantic impact is my old high school, Westlake. It has produced so many great success stories and provides a safe place for artists, male and female athletes, musicians and scholars. My idea for an art piece is one that would involve all of the students. I’d want to set a date each year for all of the seniors to place a hand print on the wall outside of the gym. Through the years, the mural would get more and more meaningful with other students looking at how many success stories came out of such a small school. 

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100 impossible artworks

1. Walk in a man’s shoes

2. Walk in a black man’s shoes

3. Walk in a white man’s shoes

4. Walk in a white woman’s shoes

5. Tell what death looks like

6. See the face of “God”

7. Look at the universe from the outside

8. Go back to age 8

9. Grow my hair down to my feet

10. To have my hair look any way I want it to

11. Grow straight hair from my head

12. Be able to let people play in my hair

13. To be able to see all perspectives

14. To come to every situation unbiased

15. To love everyone

16. To never have hate in my heart

17. To be at peace all the time

18. Hold the universe in my hands

19. Here all of the voices of my ancestors

20. Find a soul mate

21. Be able to see the future

22. Feel the hate in the most evil person’s heart

23. To have all of humanity on the same side

24. To find a connection to every being

25. To talk to animals

26. To feel what the earth feels

27. To sleep for 100 years

28. To control my dreams

29. To get rid of my bipolar

30. To get rid of my depression

31. To genetically be happy

32. To have control over my emotions

33. To have control over other’s emotions

34. To let others be able to feel my pain

35. To let others be able to see my pain

36. To let humanity be able to feel the pain of others

37. To say whatever I feel like and feel normal

38. To feel normal

39. To make weird the new normal

40. To find a permanent cure for depression

41. To make sure every child grows up having a place

42. To find a place for everyone

43. To make sure everyone feels they belong

44. To have heart to heart conversations with everyone on the planet

45. To understand the universe

46. To understand death

47. To understand life

48. To understand change

49. To accept change

50. To absorb the world’s pain

51. To cry for the world

52. To watch a life cycle from beginning to end

53. To live genderless

54. To live raceless

55. To get rid of systemetic racism

56. To have a successful discussion about racism

57. To fix racism

58. To get rid of the projects

59. To make sure there are no poor

60. To have a “perfect” government

61. To have a “understanding” government

62. To let everyone make their own decisions

63. To turn my daydreams into a full animated show

64. To have a relationship as good as the ones I day dream about

65. To have others acknowledge my own experience

66. To live inside my daydreams

67. To never cut again

68. To never want to cut again

69. To erase all of my scars

70. To want all of my scars erased

71. For people to see all of my scars

72. For people to understand all of my scars

73. For people to not judge me for my scars

74. To not feel crazy

75. To hug all of the broken

76. To have all the broken hug others that are broken

77. To create a massive safety net for all of those in need

78. To let everyone be able to take a break from the world when they need it (with no consequences)

79. To give everyone a job they love

80. To mend every child-parent relationship

81. To understand my mother

82. To have my mother understand me

83. To understand my sister

84. To have my sister understand me

85. To have a heart to heart with my father

86. To live as a bird

87. To fly across the world

88. To come up with an answer to all the world’s hardest problems

89. to stand at the top of the world

90. to listen to every song that’s ever been made

91. to hear every word that’s ever been said

92. to have everyone know where they came from

93. to help everyone find their identity

94. to make sure every child goes to bed happy

95. for everyone in the world to join hands

96. to give money to all the homeless

97. to put a smile on everyones face

98. to paint every day

99. to be happy going to work

100. to get out of bed easily

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Tanya Aguinigas

Watching the video about Tanya Aguinigas performance art was really interesting. What I liked was the fact that she takes other people’s pain and experiences into account when creating her own masterpieces. I really enjoyed the felling of stranger’s hands showing what it looks like to be embraced by another human being. That moment is a serious emotional connection that is really hard to create. By creating and hanging the felt molds she brings to life the feeling most people can’t bring themselves to visualize or experience. If I were to see a performance of hers, I’d like it to be similar to this one.

The performance is like to see of Tanya Aguiniga would be something that combines hands across America and her hand holding of a stranger performance. I’d like to see citizens living on the border holding hands across it. It’d be a performance that could include viewers and the audience like her knot tying piece. Including the citizens who’s lives are affected daily by their border identity would bring about an even stronger emotional connection stronger than Hands Across America. Pain and compassion would be brought together to create the ultimate performance piece with actual meaning. I’d love to see this in the future if possible.

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Nya

1.       21

2.       Serious tomboy

3.       Bisexual

4.       College dropout

5.       Loves family

6.       Tattoo artist

7.       Amazing artist

8.       Animator

9.       Confident

10.   Emotionally stable

11.   Confident

12.   Opposite of boujee

13.   Spunky

14.   Punk

15.   Plays electric guitar

16.   Stoner

17.   Proud otaku

18.   Sex appeal

19.   Tall

20.   Brave

21.   Womanizer

22.   Unbiased (gets along with everyone)

23.   Funny

24.   Athletic

25.   Independent

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Synesthesia Assignment

1. Chewing ice~

2. using a Q tip in my ear

3. rubbing a cotton ball~

4. brushing on highlighter

5. putting on lip gloss

6. eating Boba tapioca pearls~

7. sitting in the sunlight

8. vaping salt cookies e juice (morning hit)~

9. taking off my socks

10. holding the rail down the stairs

11. writing with a bic pen

12. drawing with my apple pencil on iPad screen

13. riding in the car window down

14. being hot and drinking cold water

15. doing my edges

16. someone playing with my hair

17. pedicure

18. getting my fingernails painted

19. walking in grass barefoot

20. putting on lotion

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Yoko Ono Performance Pieces

Nia Moss Performance pieces

16.Let’s piece

Let 200 people clap simultaneously and stay on beat  

18. laugh Piece

Laugh loudly in an empty theater and listen to your joy

28. Tape Piece

Record the sound of traffic from

A. A country road

B. a highway bridge

C. a gas station at night

32. Tape Piece IV

Record the sound of a random store aisle

Play it on repeat through the speakers

47. Dawn Piece

Wake up at dawn and count the hours aloud on a clock until noon

52.Concert piece

Dance as if listening to the opposite genre until the concert is over

53. Hide and seek piece

Hide when you are the seeker

Seek when you are the hider

70.Piece for the wind

Scream into the wind and let it come back to you

90. Time painting

Make a painting and only allow people to see it for 1 minute a day

102. Position piece

Get into a split position and stay there for a day

116. lighting piece

Center your lighting perfectly and then take a picture in the shadows

120.whisper piece

Whisper into a jar

Put it on a shelf to listen to later

130.Riding Piece

Ride into a quiet storm and sit in it until it passes

133. Laundry piece

Gather all the laundry in the house

Throw it out the window onto the lawn

135.Clock piece

Put your clocks forward in fall

Put your clocks back in spring

142.Card Piece

Cut out the faces of all the face cards and glue them to the instruction card

153. Falling piece

fall onto your mattress until you can’t fall anymore

158.Hand piece

Trace the line on your hands 100 times

169.Paper piece

Fold a piece of paper in half 8 times

171.Syllable piece

Use less than three syllables in all of your words for a day

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For my sculpture, I decided to make a smiling face mask. I figured the problem it would solve was one nobody seems to talk about. The lack of personality and politeness that was lost after the addition of masks. One of the best parts of my day came when a random stranger simplied smiled in my direction. Even though we'd never meet again, this tiny action of kindness is what gave me hope for the not so friendly world we live in nowadays. So I made a mask that highlights a big smile (alongside your eyes) to bring even the tinyest amount of joy you can to a person. Even in the most confusing of times, a smile can go a long way.

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     After stumbling up the stairs, I make it into the bathroom desperate to get the smell of smoke off of my breath. I put a little bit of toothpaste on my toothbrush and get to work. “What if she comes up the stairs” my mind immediately drifts to. “Is she gonna tell me to do the dishes, I can’t do the dishes right now” my inner voice screams as my tooth brush gets lost in my mouth. I feel it scrub against my molars. Feel the brush run along my tongue. I like this dollar toothpaste better than that Colgate stuff. I turn the water back on and rinse my mouth, trying to find a towel. I blindly feel for the one I know is always on the counter. I take one last look at my face making sure my eyes aren’t red and head to my room.

Part 5. Titles

1. Multi tasker

2. Late night reflections

3. Morning fog

4. Wake n’ bake