Glee concert

A couple of weeks ago my friend Hannah took me and my friend Ryley to a concert from one of our favorite TV shows, Glee. I started watching Glee about a year ago when I heard that one of my Theatricum directors was on it. Ever since then I have been completely hooked. So many people are so quick to judge because they sing and they automatically assume its something completely different than what it is. It's an odd thing because Glee is a phenomenon, and yet so many people dislike it before even watching it. Glee is about a high school glee club, who doesn't have the best of luck. It's characters are interesting, the writing is witty and the show has such a great message, that being unique does not make you a loser, your differences make you special. Since the show is about a glee club, all of their songs are covers, but each with its own unique twist.


In either case Hannah, Ryley and I were lucky enough to get tickets since the show sold out in the first hour. I'm so happy we did, because the show was AMAZING. We drove out to Universal Studios and headed over to the Gibson Amphitheater along with tons of other Gleeks (the term for glee fans). They performed 23 songs, and let me tell you, they are amazing live. I think all three of us sang the whole way through. I had such a stupendous time, and I'm still having a hard time believing I was actually there.

Welcome Back to Reality

It is here.

As you may or may not know, I am a huge fan of the television show Fringe. After a long summer wait it is finally back! All I can say is, YES!!

Drawing of the Day: Aang

A couple years ago I heard about this TV show called "Avatar: the Last Airbender". I didn't know anything about it, and I forgot all about it until one night when I was at my Grandma Martha's house. I had just finished watching my favorite show "Bewitched" and I was flipping though the channels when I came across an animated series that looked interesting. I recognized the title "Avatar" and so I watched the episode, and liked it. I continued watching the show, I thought I was good, but not amazing. That changed when I saw the season finale. It was amazing, so unlike anything I had seen before. It inspired me and I realized what I great show it was. Ever since then I have been a big Avatar fan. I've eagerly awaited each new episode, counting down the days till it would air. Due to the writers strike last year, the third season was cut short. I didn't know when the rest of the episodes would air, I figured they would push it into next season.

The other day, I decided to look online and see if I could ind the information about the rest of the season. While looking around, I discovered that the episodes had already aired without my knowing. I went to iTunes and to my delight, saw six new episodes.

Sometime last year, I drew drawings of some of the characters from the show. The new episodes inspired me to get this drawings out and finish them. They turned out really really nice! I forgot how good the drawings were, and they look even better in color.

My first drawing was of the main character, Aang. The character has a tattoo of a blue arrow on his forehead which was fun to do because most of his clothes from this season have been muted browns and reds. The arrow added a really nice bit of color. Anyways, I think he turned out really good! I can't wait to see what the others will look like once they're done!

Cuts, Bruises, Gashes Oh My!

I have been fascinated with the art of stage makeup for a while now. In other words, I love creating fake injuries. It started out with a simple cut, then once I perfected that I moved onto bruises. I create these wounds using a little watercolor set I have. I've made skinned knees, gashes and burns. One day I was watching a special feature on Lost Season 2 that talked about the makeup they did for the TV show. The segment showed how they applied this white pasty stuff so that they could paint the inside of the wound and it looked like it was deep. It made me curious as to what other substances I could use. That's when I noticed a bottle of glue on my desk. I started doing what looked like gashes. I used glue, which made the skin look stretched, my usual paint, for the gash part, and olive oil, which I put on the gash once I finished painting. The oil makes it look wet. It was very fun experimenting and trying new things.

Yesterday my friend Ventana came over and she decided she wanted a cut on her leg. I made a gash on her leg and one on mine, once her mom arrived we explained that we were trying to skateboard down the hill together on one board and fell off. To make a long story short, she only realized it wasn't real when we all burst out laughing. When Ventana went home she told the same story to her dad, who also thought it was real.

I decided that I wanted to do something a little bigger. So, I painted a long knife-like wound on my upper leg. I applied glue, olive oil and more glue. Then I thought, well why not make a glue piece of skin separately and put it over the whole thing. So thats what I did. On a sheet of palette paper I made my piece of skin and let it dry. My mom suggested I try using matte medium so I made a piece out of that to. Once they were dry I tried both "on" and realized the matte medium worked better. I asked Greg if he could mix some paint to look like my skin tone then I painted the white matte medium over the top. After much retouching I decided I had done all I could for the day. It turned out good, but next time I have to smooth out some bumps in the matte medium a little and the skin color was a little off. It still turned out pretty cool. I'm looking forward to experimenting a lot more in the future and maybe one day I'll be on some DVD explaining how I did the makeup in a movie.

Lost

The new season of Lost began on Thursday the 21st. It has been six months since the last episode, and I was super excited for season 4. My friends Rebecca, Brenan and I counted down at school, and I watched the trailer about a hundred times. I had heard that it was going to be a two hour episode, and I was mad when mom and I turned on the TV and found that the first hour was just a recap. In the end, I enjoyed the episode. It wasn't the best one ever, but I still liked it. It looks as though this new season is going to be really interesting! They hinted at a bunch of new things in this episode, from the 'Oceanic 6' to the mysterious new people on the island. I'm really looking forward to next Thursday! If you watched the episode, vote on my poll as to how you liked it. 

Lost Trailer

Hey Everyone!
For all you LOST fans out there, I have good news!! A new trailer for season 4 has just come out on line! It looks as though this new season is going to be REALLY REALLY good!! For those of you who don't know the series, I highly recommend it!!

Check it out HERE.
It's the second clip on there.