The new art teacher at Stuarts Draft is a real sweetheart and because we are both new to the school, we have bonded. This is her first year teaching, but she came up with a great first project for her students in digital photography class. They were asked to go around the school and take pictures of letters to make the school's name. She encouraged them even to not take pictures of already formed letters, but letters found in the shape and architecture of the building and its furniture. How fun!
This is what I miss most about my high school experience. High school was a bit choppy for me, seeing that I went to three different high schools. I love bits and pieces of each one. I miss the homey feel of Northern Bedford HS in PA. I miss all my great dynamic and colorful friends from Laurel High in MD. And I miss art class from Chapelgate Academy. Art class got me through my senior year at CCA. I was a senior and new and hardly had any pride in that school. I felt like an outsider a lot and art class made me very happy.
Today, I have a job I love, but I feel like I am a creative jack-of-all-trades that yearns to dabble in all kinds of stuff. I want to be creative with food. I want to be creative with interior design. I want to be creative with words. I want to be creative on canvas. I want to be creative with my camera. I want to be creative with fashion. (I even have "what-I-would-have-done" sketches for Project Runway challenges).
I have a soul sewn together with crayola and Penguin classics.
So I think...I am going to attempt to devote more time to doing and less time to watching. No more sidelines couch dreamer...more oozer of creativity on every surface I can find.
In that effort, this post will be a kind of gallery, to celebrate what I can do. This is my encouragement to keep playing in paint, words, fabric, and shutter buttons.
Just some photography and paintings I have completed. I have many many more rolling around in my head, as well as in a pile upstairs. Maybe one of these days I can even put one of my short stories on here. Wouldn't it be awesome if one day my name was searchable on Barnes and Noble shelves? Just a thought. I hope this didn't seem to self-absorbed. I really am not that full of myself. Ha.
I'm kind of the same way though. It might sound conceited but I won all kinds awards in high school for painting but I hated art. My whole family is like that, we can paint/draw anything we see. Now that we have photoshop I love makng logos on it. I also love the camera and taking pictures (I take half of the pictures when me and Kori go out). I love decorating my house, and I love cooking and Kori says I've never made a bad dish (he didn't eat my cooking growing up though!), and I have two full novels I have written on my computer that just need to get the guts to submit somewhere, and about 500 million other stories in my head. Some people are just like that, when it comes to artsy stuff-- its just easy. But everyone else in my family is the same way...so it kinda seems normal. Both my brothers have written full books too and they are under 25! This comment kinda rambled but, long story short, nothing wrong with being creative!
ReplyDeleteI decided my post sounded super vain :) oh well! :P
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