A Very Long Blog Post to Reminisce on a Seemingly Very Long Semester.

This semester. . .
I choose to work on 3D work in art portfolio.

I started out really enjoying ceramics and throwing on the wheel.

but that got old...

..so I changed it up a bit and made a few breadth pieces...er..well I made two. A clock and a chair. I'm very happy with these two pieces, but still, only two? Laaame.

The chair took around a month of my class time, and I found myself behind schedule and scrambling to throw some pottery and create a couple more concentration pieces.

And I did. And it took forever to get them fired...ahem...Mason....And now I just have way too much to glaze and I HATE glazing.

...anyways, as I recollect this semester that seems to have lasted forever, I realize that I really didn't come up with a substantial number of projects. 2 Breadth pieces and 3 concentration pieces with a few scattered extra thrown pots that don't really count as fine art, and many thrown pots that I trashed before they even got to the kiln.

I really didn't get much finished this semester, as I am an extremely slow and sort of meticulous worker.

I also took many wonderful photos on photobooth with Molly. We're pretty photogenic as you can see..

SOOOO, to get on with the list's I'm supposed to make for this blog,

List number one: What I wish I would have done differently in these last few weeks:

• I wish I would have stayed on task and completed more projects.
• I wish I would have thought more about concept and functionality of my art.
• I wish I would have felt more confident about my work
• I wish I would have been more daring with my projects
• I wish I would have had more inspiration, and not have been so stuck in a funk with my work
• I wish I would have thrown more on the wheel in order to better my skills
• I wish I would have worked more in my sketchbook
• I wish I would have followed due dates
• I wish I would have. 

List number two: My Goals for NEXT semester

• I will work more diligently
• I will complete more breadth pieces.
• I will attempt to do everything that I wished I would have done in the first list.
• I will finish an outstanding portfolio.
• I will draw from observation more often
• I will blog more often. I will blog about my work, even when blogs aren't assigned. 
• I will continue to make self portraits, not to be conceited though.
• I will be more outspoken.
• I will DRINK MORE COFFEE
• I will make my art teachers proud:)

And I think that a list number three needs to be added: Positive aspects of the last few months:

• I made functional art.
• I tried new things.
• I also worked in 2D
• I'm beginning to make a concentration of self portraits in my 2D work
• I actually worked on art oven Christmas break
• I applied to the art programs of 6 universities. AND got accepted into all of them, with scholarship offers. I'm still undecided though.
• I got my very own easel for Christmas. It is wonderful. 
• And, I got a puppy named Claude. He is super fantastic and wears bandanas. This only relates to this list because he is named after a famous artist and a typeface designer. 

He's so cute:)

I feel as if my strongest 3D piece so far has been my cardboard chair, as it is functional, and it gets a lot of good reactions out of people. The next is probably my puzzle clock. 

My strongest 2D piece has probably been one of my self portraits, possibly the words one, or the charcoal one with lots of hair. I can't decide. Oh, I also need to be less indecisive this semester!

I don't have pictures of these yet though, so that's it for now! :)