Red in Black and White

This is Red

This is also Red but a little bit more buff looking

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.  ~William Shakespeare, Henry V

Fanally a post :P

Hello everyone! Yes a post, I know - It's been so long. 4th quarter kept me busy but now that it's summer, there is no excuse for me not to blog.

This was my Art final, we had to make artwork inspired by a song, my song was Across the universe by the Beatles which I loosely translated. "Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup" inspire the way thoughts and ideas and, of course, the words that are flowing out of her mind across the universe. and the "images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes" are the white and black shapes, the rest I got from the feeling of the song. I used acrylic paint.

This is a very recent picture (yesterday) I drew of my parakeet, Abotty. 

(He's even more adorable in real life!)

This picture I drew pretty much at the beginning of the school year, we had to draw those 3d shape - cylinders, cubes, spheres, and triangular things - all stacked up on top of each other with the light source coming from the top. I decided to make the shapes into something to make it more interesting and I really like the way it turned out. :)

Paper

So guess what our art assignment was? We had to make something out of paper, like paper is the material we make it out of, not just drawing on paper. I got really excited about this one, my art teacher gave me a book to use, it took me a long time to make this, but it was a lot of fun, I actually would love to do something like this again. Technically, this isn't due till next Friday, go figure that art is the only subject I don't procrastinate in. Oh, I think i have algebra homework to do.... meh.

Ok, I know what your thinking, "Whats with the cat? Why is there a cat? Usually birds and butterflies are associated with flowers" Well to answer those questions: I do not know, I was working on flowers and stuff and  then somehow I decided  'I'm going to make a cat now' and before I knew it, I was making a cat. I don't own a cat, I'm not even a cat person, I own a bird, but I can't explain my creative impulses, they do what they want.

See, he's like a jungle cat, his name is Raul.

As you may have noticed, I have not posted in a while, that's because I was having a little artist block, it's pretty much over now, you can expect posts more often. 

Back to Doing What I Do Best...

... Riding

  I made this blog with the intention of putting mostly artwork that I draw or paint or whatever. But really, there is no possible way for me to have a blog and not post about riding. You see, although I love art, my truest passion is horseback riding, and it always has been sense I was 4 years old. I haven't ridden in almost 2 years, it feels so good to be back in the saddle. The horse I'm riding? His name is Red (obviously because he is red of course), the camera, although it is really good, new camera, does him no justice, he is gorgeous. His coat is redder in person and soft, he's really muscular, has to be at least 16 hands, maybe taller, he's a thoroughbred gelding, and is built like a perfect hunter horse (hunter is the style I ride). He kind of has a bouncy canter, but that's cool. He was kinda slow sometimes and he reminded me of Dandee (the horse I rode in Washington).

  I was expecting to be a bit rusty after the 2 years of equine sobriety, but I wasn't exactly anticipating just how out of shape I was, I was literally huffing after cantering, I mean, I had to catch my breath. Despite the common misunderstandings, riding gives you quite a work out.

And my little sister Julia rides aswell! She is riding an adorable little pony named Luke.

Mike is a really good trainer who actually knows what he's talking about. I'm excited to be starting riding lessons with him!

Musical Monday

This is the song that's been stuck in my head all week. :)

Happy Spring!

  It has been absolutely beautiful weather lately. Its great to just go outside all day and, you know, blow bubbles, read, draw, hula-hoop, go for a walk, basically just hang out outside while you blast music inside so you can hear it outside (and so can your neighbors). I wish everyday could be like today.
 The sketchbook I'm using is one my aunt Beth  gave to me last week for Christmas........
She just sent out her Christmas presents, which is fine with me because it's fun opening presents in March, in fact, we should have a lot more present-giving holidays, don't you think?  Anyway, here are some other things I drew in the sketchbook. (thanks Beth)

Just a doodle of a robot relaxing under a tree on his day off, and I am a strong believer that even robots should get days off.  :P

I was sitting in the Art room at school and I didn't know what to draw, I lacked inspiration and was just staring at the blank page. Then Gracia randomly took my pencil and drew glasses in the middle of the paper. So i drew the eyes and the head and hair and everything else: all inspired by the glasses, (she's a crazy artist lady) and Gracia named her Susi. It was a team effort.

   BTW: I'm going to start riding lessons again on Thursday!!! I'm soooo excited!!!!!