List individual words or short phrases that come to mind when asked these questions:

• What is your favorite art material? Why?
• How would you describe your artwork in an e-mail?
• Besides the work of other artists, what influences your artwork?
• What do you like best about being an artist?
• Why do you make art?
• What is most challenging about being an artist?
• How do you begin a piece of artwork?
• What does it mean when you say a piece of artwork “turned out really well”?
• What do you want others to feel or think when they see your artwork?

Must fill out later to help my artist's statement!!!!!!

Oh really...

Guess who got their schedule today!
......... Now guess who did NOT get Photo 3 on their schedule.
The answer to both of those is me, for the record.
I literally cried. My mum and I are going to talk to Kohler and sort things out asap.

I'm chopping off my hair now that my senior pictures are done, and then I intend to do a fun little photoshoot in my backyard again or maybe somewhere else.
Jaclyn and I are supposed to get together to take photos soon too. Score.

Photo has been a great experience in my life, it really has.
I wouldn't be the same person. Well, maybe.
I remember this is where I met Amber and Matt. I still have Matt's photo collage on my wall.
I remember repeatedly trying to print on a pair of sunglasses. Tiny image, but I got it.
I remember when I stopped doing timed test strips and could just judge how long to expose. Bad, I know, but it worked. And I felt really good because I knew my photos.
I remember the first photos I shot. The guitar.
I remember when one of them went missing. And I found out this year that it was stolen by someone who came into the photo room and liked it, so they took it to hang in their room. I was more flattered than angry.
I remember how I would go to my next class and smell developer on my hands. And it grew to be normal, and kind of comforting.
I remember deciding that I love this, more than anything I'd loved in a while.
I remember a lot, and I'm hoping I'll never forget <3

People have different perspectives and opinions of what "ugly" is. So even something that is "ugly" is still a great work of art to someone. I'm not one for abstract art, but it doesn't mean it isn't a great work of art. Who's to say what is and isn't beautiful or ugly?

I think that documentary photos show the truth, but not completely. It can only show one side of the truth. Maybe it's from a certain area, or a certain time period, or the photographer was really opinionated, or some other factor. The situation might not be the same everywhere or for everyone. Documentary photos show a fraction of what might be occurring.

This monochromatic portrait project should be interesting.
I found some portraits by Federico Erra.
http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-monochromatic-portraits-federico-erra
LOVE <3

Also, I'm taking photographs for my family of my cousins' communion because they chose me over paying a ton for a professional photographer. Hey, I'll take it! My first gig! I kind of doubt I'm getting paid though, but I don't mind. It is family, and taking photographs.

Question of the week for me seems to be:
Would it be crazy for me to dye my hair blond for this photo project?
People have done far crazier things for art...

I still feel there can't be a world without art. It's all over the place.
Even if people can't afford art, that doesn't mean it'll stop being around or stop being made.
It's always around. Always.

Nina had a fry that looked like one of the Burmese symbols I need! I told her to hold on a second, but she ate it right when I pulled out my camera.
Ah well, lost that one. There will be more fries and other various objects.
I'm having trouble with one uniform theme for the alphabet items. :/

We might make pinhole cameras in physics class, SAY WHAT!?
I'm not sure if my teacher was joking or not, but I kind of hope he wasn't.
When he said it Stef, Jesse, and I all looked up kind of like "Been there, done that."
Huzzah for photography students being in the same physics class (:

Why is artwork so expensive?

I think artwork is so expensive because it's so unique. You're not going to find the same artwork by more than one person. You'll find replicas and duplicates and people with similar style, but it's never the same. Plus, the artist put a lot of time, effort, and possibly money into their work.

Self Portrait

So for the latest project, I have a plan.
I want to do a self portrait, which I don't do very often, so this should be interesting.
I want to play with my hair, clothes, body language, makeup, etc, and how it's conveyed in the photos. Almost like, portraying multiple personalities.
Then after it's uploaded I want to take a sliver of each photo, and every sliver will be the same size but move over a bit in the new photo.
I'll be shooting in my house, I might even clear out a part of my room for full use of my white walls. And I was contemplating asking my mother to borrow her DSLR. If not, my little point-and-shoot will do.

Oopsies...

Gianna's topic:
If I could only photograph one thing for the rest of my life, I'd choose leaves.
I like them, the way they look, the way they change, when they're dead, when they're alive.
You can get them from all angles. And I prefer shooting nature. Nature doesn't change or need to be posed in front of a lens.

I need to start messing with lighting in my photos. I'm just noticing I really haven't played around with it much. :/
Annnndddd I think I just got an idea for a new photo in photoshop! But I need to think it through some more...

I've been messing with new photography methods. I don't like taking pictures of people, but if I focus solely on one part of the person, I like it a lot better. I've done a few of eyes, and lips, and from the nose down and things like that. Taking pictures of people is suddenly a lot more tolerable. I'd call this progress.