School

School is well underway once again. Even after several months, it’s still hard to believe that I’m in 12th grade. We’ve been getting to do all these things that I’ve heard about for years, and somehow I never really thought I’d do them.

Beach Day:

We had our last beach day, which was rainy. The beach and rain aren’t a very good combination in case you didn’t know.

The Rose Cerimony:

One of the oddest parts of this year was getting a special friend and doing the rose ceremony. I remember being in first grade and getting my 12th grade friend. She seemed so much bigger than I am today. My special friend’s name is Arabella, she’s a bit feisty, but she’s great non the less!

Pumpkin Carving:

The Friday before Halloween the 12th grade and the first graders carved pumpkins together. It was loads of fun, but my pumpkin wasn’t a masterpiece. I remember carving a cat on my pumpkin when I was in first grade.

Self Portraits:

I’ve been looking forward to the self portrait class for years now. It’s one of those things I always wanted to do and teachers would always say “You have to wait until your in 12th grade...” It was really hard, but I really love the way my portrait turned out. It was also really fun to see the pictures that everyone else chose to paint. I’ll put up final portraits as soon as I can.

The Pajama Game:

Our musical this year is The Pajama Game, which is exciting. Unfortunately I didn’t get a very good part. It’s been a very interesting experince, and while I’m sure the play will be awesome, it’s taking some time getting there.

Halloween:

Although I didn’t do much this year for Halloween, I did dress up like the queen of the Nile, Cleopatra.

Photographing a Fairy Tale

I recently came across some amazing pictures while visiting a blog I like. When I showed them to my mom, she decided to look up the photographer. We found out that his name is Eugenio Recuenco. He is a truly amazing photographer. Some of his work looks like paintings and fairy tales. It was really nice to see his inspiring work and after looking at his photos I wanted to go out a shot some for myself. Enjoy the photos.

Eugenio Recuenco

A Day at the Huntington

A couple of days ago Mary, My and I went to the Huntington Gardens for the day. I had been looking forward to doing something like this for some time now, and I wasn't disappointed. Mary needed to visit the portrait gallery for school, so My and I tagged along. It was really neat to see all the amazing paintings. We all seemed to have a favorite painting that we each were drawn to. I especially liked the painting of the Duchess of Devonshire. We saw many lovely things in the museum, there was a sane glass window that was particularly neat.

We then walked over to the tea hous

e. They brought us fresh scones which were gone in all of three seconds. Then we moved on to the buffet. Mary and I went for the multiple tea sandwiches, spicy egg salad, carrot ginger, chicken walnut,

 and cucumber mint. They were all amazing. As we sat down at our table, our plates heaped with food, we noticed that My had

only deserts on her plate. We ate so much that I felt as though I was going to burst. Three types of salad, and tons of yummy

 deserts. Chocolate lemon or coffee cups, brownies, lemon

 squares, fruits and

strawberries coveredin thick sweet cream. Yummmmm.

After eating all that we could, we decided

 to walk the gardens. We laughed, talked and had a really amazing time! I can't wait to do it again!

Drawing of the Day: Painted Face

I did this over Spring, but I only remember about it a week or so ago. I pulled it out of a pile of books and realized that it was actually pretty good. I had been eager to try painting again so I found some painting paper and took some of my moms acrylics out of her box. Then I went to work. I sketched a face on paper, traced it then copied it onto the painting paper. I did the yellow background first, then moved on to the skin. It was fun, it was very time consuming! In the end though, I think it turned out really nice! I especially like the leaves and flowers I put in her hair! It was inspired by the amazing painter Audrey Kawasaki. I saw her piece called Karamari and thought to myself "I want to do something like that!" Of course, it doesn't really look like her work, but I guess it has a little of that feeling. Anyways, I hope to do more painting in the future, because I really enjoy it!

Audrey Kawasaki