One Last Post Of The Year

It's super weird to think that my Junior year in high school is just about over, but I'm glad that I was able to take part in Creative Arts Class. I feel like throughout the year I've grown as an artist to the point where my ideas and creativity is at a widened level than they were before. I've learned a lot from my teacher, classmates and assignments and I have been even more proud of myself with each assignment that I've completed. Since the beginning with the graphite pencil drawing, I've created so much more than I could imagine. I was so proud of myself for this drawing that it's crazy to think of where I've come. This is the this drawing I did this year:

From drawings with pencil to colored pencil and paintings and stamps to working with clay and making a totem pole and even creating my very own art book, I've done nothing but surprise myself throughout this whole year. I've learned about shapes and sizes when you're drawing portaits and I've learned about colors that contrast each other and  work well together through shading and stamping. Here are a few of my collages and stamp pieces:

I really enjoyed doing all of these assignments because they were creative and fun. I'm very proud with how they all came out. One of my favorite pieces from this year was my candy drawing. I had no idea that I would be able to draw something and make it seem as realistic as I did. This is what it looked like:

 

I've made a lot of cool artwork through the year, and I'm very proud of my last assignment of my totem pole:

I never thought that I would be good enough with clay to take ceramics, but I proved myself wrong and have taken the class next year. So many good things have come out of my time in Creative Arrs this year that I couldn't be happier with the abilities that I developed and all of the hard work that paid off for me.

Time Capsule

What is this? 

It looks like it could be a box from the future, or maybe even some type of weird device. Whoever designed this seemed to be a very colorful person. From the looks it this box, it seems to be a girl. She probably designed it to be like her personality. Colorful and cheerful with flowers and weird designs that she liked to doodle. There's rhinestones that probably show that this girl liked to be a shining person. Someone who likes to make her projects and ideas over the top with glitter and shiny items. It looks pretty cool if you ask me. I'm about to open it and see what's inside, or see if it blows up or starts to fly or tells me something crazy like it's from the future trying to spy on someone.

Sadly when I opened the box nothing spectacular came from it. It actually seems like it's from about 20 years ago. There's some writing in it, a girls name along with a few things about her. It says stuff about how it's her junior year of high school and the box is from 2014. That's crazy! It seems like it could be something from the future but it's 20 years old. It looks like it's a time capsule. I did a project and researched some things that were popular when my grandparents were alive and time capsules were one of them. I wish that we could make time capsules like this, it seems so cool but all we have is stupid holograms and video glasses. It would be so cool to try and save things to open so many years from now. This girl seemed to be pretty nice and had some close friends. There's some pictures of her and a few people in here and she seems to look pretty happy. There's also a cheerleading bow, which makes me assume she was a cheerleader. There's a lot of pink and blue so I'm sure those were her favorite colors. There's also this weird looking tan thing that looks like it's hard and folded. I've never seen one before and there's weird symbols on it. When I took a hologram of it, my phone sent me to a video of something called a fortune cookie and then I sort of recognized it. Of course we have Chinese food still, but we get fortunes sent to us on our phones, not in the form of cookies. This seems so much cooler! I wish that I lived back then. There's so many drawings in here that are really good looking. They're on small pieces of paper so that they would fit, and there's things like flowers and portaits of people that look like her family. There's also some prom pictures which is pretty cool because we still have prom pictures today. There magazine clippings of clothing and it looks like people who she liked to watch on tv. This part is pretty cool because we wear some of the things that were new and popular back then. It looks like she has a few favorite movies and tv shows. There's so many things in here about this girl and I really wish that I could find her and meet her to give her all of her stuff back. I'm sure she would love to see all of her old things, espeically all of these pictures and compare how she is now to how she was as a teenager. I'm really glad I found this because I'm going to try and bring back time capsules because this is such a great idea.