where i spend my time

This is a picture of my room, where I am 9 times out of 10. I love hanging out in my room whether I'm sleeping or watching Netflix.

This is another picture of my room, but it is of my window because I love when it lights up my room enough that  I don't even have to turn on my lights.

This is a picture of a lacrosse field, where I am often and where I love to spend my time. I love being out on the field to see my friends, and to play the sport I love.

This is a picture of my messy desk, where I'll come to paint or draw or just do my homework. I'm often here when I want a break from my phone, and just a few minutes to think and sit in the quiet.

I took this picture of my dog, Dora, laying on the rug where we always cuddle after school. This is one of my favorite spots because right when I get home she knows exactly where we're going and I can just lay down after school.

  

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My Favorite Places

This is at the top of Mt Haleakala on the island Maui, which is one of the Hawaiian Islands. This is one of my favorite places because the silence up here was unlike anything I've ever experienced, and when the sun set it made the view extra breathtaking.


This is a picture taken at one of my lacrosse games, and it is all of the defenders and one of the goalies on my team. This is one of my favorite places because I love playing lacrosse and my teammates make the game more fun for me.


This picture was taken at the ski resort, Arapahoe Basin, in Denver, Colorado. This was my favorite place I've ever been skiing, because the silence on the ski lift and the conditions of the mountain were perfect this day.


This is a picture of me on the path to the creek in my back yard, I come here often throughout the summer. It is a place I can go to swim with friends or just explore in the woods and lose track of time.


This is a picture of me and my friends at Roundtop, where I go skiing often throughout the winter season. This is at the top of my favorite run of the mountain, and you can see the city sky line in the background.

Pumpkins and Artist Statement

1. My goals and intentions in this artwork were to learn how to work with charcoal and try to make the pumpkins pop off the page.

2. I accomplished these goals by trial and error of trying different strokes with the charcoal and erasing if I didn't like the result.

3. What surprised me the most about my experience with this drawing was how much different working with charcoal was than just using regular pencils.

4. The most difficult challenge I had to face was not accidentally erasing what I had drawn while working on other sections of the drawing.

5. I met that challenge by positioning myself in a different way and working in a way that I would touch the least amount of final product.

6. I experienced the shift to right brain artistic thinking when I was working on the bottom right pumpkin, I was able to see the pumpkin for what it was and not how I imagined it in my head.

7. I think my drawing really works in the bottom left pumpkin and the antler, because this is when I was using the right side of my brain and in my opinion what looks the best.

8. Something I have learned that I can bring into my next drawing is to add emphasis to the darker indents and light to the lightest part to dramatize each.

9. An artist in the class that I learned something from was Gabbi, because we did a similar composition and we bounced ideas off each other while helping each other through the process.

10. If I had a "do-over", I would do less pumpkins or change the composition, because I don't think it all flows together, and some of the pumpkins look more sloppily drawn then others.

11. I feel the best thing about my work is the contrast between the dark background and the light pumpkins, and how the reflection really makes the pumpkins stand out more.