6 Quotes for the Top 6

Here are the Top 6 and their quotes that I thought went with them and why.

(From top to bottom)

1)"If Music be the food of love, play on." -William Shakespeare

I thought this quote is good for this painting because this is a music related painting toward my older brother and his love toward jazz music.

2)"I have flaws. And if you can't handle me at my worst, then you damn sure can't handle me at my best." -Marilyn Monroe

I picked this quote for this painting because the painting resmbles a beautiful woman with her hair in the wind and looking over her shoulder. It portrays my mom, she is a strong, beautiful, outgoing woman, and only a strong woman like my mom and Marilyn would say something like that.

3)"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." -Albert Einstein

I chose this quote for this painting because when I first started painting this piece I didn't think of a guitar, I was just doing a mark over and over, and then the music came to me and I took another look at the piece at a distance and it all then came to me. You don't have to see what I see, you are able to use your imagination to see what you see in this painting.

(From top to bottom)

1)" High school is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless." -John Mayer

I chose this quote for this piece because I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know where I was going to end up in the end and I felt the same way in high school.

2)"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to purse them." -Walt Disney

I picked this quote for this piece because when I look at it, it looks like a 'dream' exploding, taking off, and coming true.

3)"I wish I knew how to quit you." -Jack Twist

I thought this quote is the only one that could go with this piece because I was writing the quote over and over agian on the paper.

Mark Evaluation

Here is the Evaluation I received:

'About 50% to 75% I am not sure, I was not fond of. Why? Because in some the marks were very similar, no variety at all mostly in the marks and I found them a bore to look at. As for some of them they formed pictures, I didn't like that either. But not all is doom an gloom for you. And some had some excellent pieces in there as well, some very beautiful I particularly like the tiny splats with lines, it's very different from all of your other pieces and I think it's the best.'

I found this critique very unhelpful, embarrasing, and hurtful. She didn't clearly state which were her top three so I tried my best to look for which she put aside for me. She also didn't state why she picked the top 3 she did. So here are the 3 I think she picked out.

These are my top three that I chose. Each one of these paintings were drawn for a family member.

I picked this one because while I was painting this one, we were listening to guitar music and I thought of my mom and Tito. They used to play guitar when I was younger. There were only supposed to be six lines but I accidentely made a seventh line so I call it "The Seventh String". I like it also because I didn't use the whole page like most of my other paitings, it's really clean and neat to me. It was fun to make, I'm pretty sure I used a straw to make this one.

I painted this one while listening to classical music I think. I was thinking about my mom at the time. She's a beautiful woman and I look up to her. So I made a a swoop mark over and over in the same spot and it reminded me of a woman with long hair looking over her shoulder. I haven't named it yet but this one is for my mom. I used my fingers to make this one.

This one is my number one favorite. We were listening to jazz music and the only person who got me hooked on jazz was my older brother. He is a genius at the alto sax, a complete god. I miss having him play for me. It is the same mark, in a backwards S motion. I was going for a saxaphone look for this picture. I used a sponge like thing to make the mark and it worked out nicely.

I Be Not Myself

For a week we have been working on storyboards for our "Not Myself" Videos. Here are mine.

A Full Post

For an hour we had to listen to a song for one hour again. So this time I listened to Lifehouse- "You and Me" And these are my paintings that I made within that hour.

For homework we had to choose from 12 choices: I chose to the one that said to fill up a page with one thought. My thought was: Love.

Quotes

Today in class, we had to find 10 quotes for 10 of our marks. Here are the two:

1) "We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi

2) "I wish I knew how to quit you." - Jack Twist

With these two quotes I picked out two of of my marks to go with them.

20 makes 1

Out of the many paintings we did in class today we had to choose one to take 20 pictures of the different angles of the picture. Here's my 20.

Marks make Marks

Today in the second part of class we made more marks with music. My family inspired me on some of them. Here are my favorites.