Horseback ridding 12/13/09

Today i rode Rebel. We did a lot of canter work, and worked mostly on keeping him straight. For not cantering in months, I feel as though everything went really well. Rebel was extermly straight, and we achieved one of the best canters Ive had on him. He was very upright, and soft in the bit, something that took him a long time to achieve. The ride started off kind of difficult however. When I first got on rebel through his head in the air and refused to put it down, he also let out once nice buck. However, after some work Rebel finally started to get back to working as he should.

Art Portfolio 12/8

Again I cropped the picture. I really do like this sketch, there is just a few things I want to change about it. Her lips don't really match with the rest of her face, they just looked as if they were placed there. Also her left cheek bone is a bit to low and sticking out. However the shading on her face is something I am very proud of. My sketches are getting more and more realistic with each passing week. My instructor was very happy with this piece, and when we sat down reviewing the images at the end she said that this one was a break through image for me, since i normally end up drawing things to small, and because of the extreme shading i put into it. This sketch will also make it in to my portfolio. the shading on the rest of the body, as you can start to see on her chest, looks very life like, and I am extremely proud of it.

Sturgeon 12/6

Today I had my first meeting with Mrs. Peterson about how this was going to be accomplished. She brought in a bunch of different fabrics for me to start experimenting with. We also talked about how long we thought this was going to take, and the actual shape the fish would take. I came home and did some research on what the fish actually looks like. I put together this college as an inspiration of how the Sturgeon will look. I found some sketched images to hopefully find a more cartoonist and cuter look for the fish.

Miracle Party 12/6

The status of this activity could not be more frustrating. After being told I was in charge of food by Jane (my girl scout troop leader) I gathered some of my friends to help and found a life guard, and a back up life guard for the weekend. I sent Kathleen a e-mail about 2 weeks ago stating what I had done and asking what else I should. She then replied to me saying she didn't know that I was helping out in this event and said she had already had people and that she would get back to me later in the week to tell me how she could fit me in and what else she would need. I was very frustrated by this and called Jane. Jane told me that she had never talked to Kathleen and told me it was my responsibility to have e-mailed Kathleen earlier and say I was helping. From what I was told before I was under the impression that this was the assigned job that I was given, and that everything was running smoothly. Plus I had also e-mailed Kathleen earlier in the year and she had still not responded to the e-mail. I then talked to Jane Friday night, I had still not received another e-mail from Kathleen like she had stated would, and Jane told me that we would help with the breakfast on Saturday morning. About an hour later she called saying we didn't need to go. I did not go and last night I was talking to Missy, and she told me that she went, and that Jane had called me saying again saying to go. I checked my phone and there was no missed calls or no new voicemail. I am extremely frustrated with this. Jane told me that we are going to finish this Gold Award by filming something, i'm going to talk to her within the week and see if it is even remotely possible.

Horseback Ridding 12/6

Today I finally got to ride since I have been sick. I was extremely happy I finally got to ride again. Since it has been so long since I have last ridden I could not ride for too long or do anything to complex because my ridding instructor would be weak and she did not want to make it to sore. I rode Parker and we just did a lot of trot work. We mostly focused on me sitting up straight, and focusing on my body posture since I hadn't ridden in awhile. It was amazing to see how out of shape not being able to be active for 6 weeks made me. I started breathing heavy extremely early into my lesson, and I was shocked at how much more effort I had to put into to doing things that I found used to be so much easier to do ridding. However I was still able to get Parker to stay round and be up, which is very hard for him.

Holiday Stroll

The Holiday Stroll went over extremely well, and it was a lot of fun. I was put in charge of decorating the cookies with the kids that came into the school. The theatre class and Mrs. Yalden had brought in frosting and cookies just for this table, the cookies that I brought in were on a desert table. Mrs Yalden made frosting for the cookie decorating and I added the food coloring to make the awesome frosting for the children to decorate with. The theme of the Holiday Stroll was that there was a Treasure Hunt for the children. They had to help Santa find his missing keys, which was hidden in the mouth of the seagull in one of the pictures above. The children walked all down main street finding out clues that led them to Sturgis were they had to find the extremely easy to find key. Once the key was found the children were given a ticket with a picture of a key on it and were told to go to Candy Corner to receive their prize.

On the table that I was out there was flyers advertising Sturgis. Since I am a student at Sturgis a large amount of the parents that came through asked me about what I thought about it. I honestly told them how much I loved it, and how it was one of the best choices I ever made. One thing that I found very interesting was that one lady I was talking to had read the article that has been recently released about how you have to be smart to get into Sturgis. I told her about how there are a lot of rumors about Sturgis, but how that was not true and how anyone could get in. She also asked me if there was a special needs program, since the article said there wasn't. I told her there was. She was extremely happy to hear all of this and thanked me for telling her the right information. I was really happy that I was able to set someone right about our school, and present it the positive light that it should be in.

Art Portfolio 12/1

This is only a piece of the drawing I did for this class, however since it is a figure drawing class, as stated before I cannot post the rest of the picture on my blog. This sketch however is my favorite out of everything if done in preparation for my art portfolio. I know that this one will defiantly be in the final portfolio that I send off to my colleges. On my last sketch I did not spend much time on the face and focused more on the shading and the light. So this time after sketching the initial outline and position of the body I spent the majority of my time sketching her face, and working on the minor details and shading. I'm really proud of how this came out. The rest of the body also had really detailed shading, and I am finally becoming a lot more exact in the proportions of the body. On the rest of the drawing, the feet were the only thing that wee out of proportion.