An unruly classroom

This drawing is nothing like what happens in a normal classroom, but we all can dream, right?
 Most of the people in this drawing are real people in my life, or representations of a certain type of people. If I know you personally you may find yourself in this picture, some people in the painting are not my friends though, just random people that somehow stood out to me. The teacher's face is a little cheesy, and somehow doll-like. There are three of me in this painting, you'll probably find two, but the third is just a representation that looks nothing like me. I guess Pythagorean's theorem just isn't exciting enough to keep a class engaged.

Blue tree update

 













 I worked a little bit on the tree project over the weekend.  I cut out the leaves, I used felt, but the kind that is more stiff than cloth, don't know what it's called. I also found the right stick for the trunk and started spray painting it. I ran out of spray paint though, so here's a tip, if you ever plan to paint anything, buy enough paint first! Here's a time lapse video of me painting. Enjoy, the music isn't mine, it's someone like you, by Adele.

More room design

Since I can never work on just one project at once I started another one recently. Which leaves me currently working on about six pieces of art. This is just something fun I wanted to try out to lighten up my room. I found this idea a while ago, but I never really got to it. These are yarn spheres, or at least that's what I call them. In order to make them you take a balloon, trying to get it to be more sphere than egg shape and then make a solution of water, glue and if you want cornstarch to make it to be a consistency of watery paint and dip string in it and wrap it around the balloon. It is also a good idea to cover the balloon in something slippery like Vaseline so that when the yarn dries you can pop the balloon and the yarn won't stick to it. The images above I got from the web, not my creation. The ones I'm making aren't finished yet. If my description isn't specific enough on how to make them here are some links:
http://www.weddingbee.com/2011/08/03/diy-yarn-spheres-1/
http://artfulaussie.com/tag/yarn-spheres-diy/
if you like these than give it a try too. I want to make some and hang them from my ceiling.
thanks for reading,
bluebeaver7 <3

Defeat

This is an acrylic painting that I did 3-4 years ago. I wanted to do something like this a little while ago, like an updated version if that's what you want to call it, but then I realized that chess is way too common of a theme in art. I wanted this picture to represent defeat, I wanted the black figure to radiate power. I wanted it to be intimidating without having an actual face. I obviously didn't reach all that because I didn't and probably don't have the skill level. Some people don't understand what is behind the chess board and just to clarify it's someone's feet that they put on the chess table, bad manners right there.

A creepy touch to any room

Now that I've started on the topic of my room I might as well talk about these. They are wooden and painted with acrylic. I made them in eighth grade in my applied science class, which is kinda like a wood workshop. For our last year in middle school we could do whatever project we wanted and I had no idea what I was gonna do, but then I got this idea and I knew it was perfect. I had an obsession with drawing eyes then because I just figured out how to make them look realistic. They hang in my room next to my awesome nerd clock and they aren't actually as creepy as they seem, unless of course you're walking into your room at night. I feel like they add a nice touch to the room, diffidently unique.

Inky streets

This is a painting of a street in France. The black is pens and the color is colored ink (watered down of course). I drew this using a photograph, however I could not find it, which is too bad. I really wanted to do something with ink and I got my wish. My inspiration here was my art teacher,  I got the idea of using colored ink to fill empty spaces from her work.

A forest indoors

I really like my room and I love to decorate it. This is my wall, it's painted with normal wall paint. I got the idea from the Mass. MoCA museum where there was a giant exhibit of Sol Lewit's work that were giant wall paintings of all different styles. I loved the museum and spend a whole lot of time there. When I got home I started painting my wall wavy purple, blue and white stripes (luckily my parents approved). However soon I got really bored and it stayed unfinished for more than half a year. Soon I was so sick of it I painted it all over in white and started doing this, but I got bored soon again. Only with my mom's constant nagging (thank you mom) I managed to finish it before the summer 2012 and I am so glad that's over with. It's not perfect, but the idea of actually working on it again.... well it's not gonna happen anytime soon. However I am happy with the result and my room has become a lot cooler.

Walking in the rain

This is a picture I did in art class with my art teacher, Katya (who is amazing by the way if you didn't know). Here's her site, www.katya-art.com, there you can check out her work as well as her students'. She teaches in Russian, but we do have a girl that doesn't speak Russian in our class also. If you want to take art classes I highly recommend her studio. Now I'm getting sidetracked, anyway this is acrylic and I liked the idea of showing rain in a positive way and that's why I made the puddles so colorful. This picture has a very similar style to another one I drew that I will write about later and is kind of like an after thought. Someone said that the woman looks like Mary Poppins and I never really thought about it that way before, but I guess you can think of it that way also.
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bluebeaver7

A blue tree?

This is something I'm working on right now, it's not a drawing, but more of a design project. Right now I'm working on the pot in which my "plant" is going to grow. The pot is clay and spray painted blue. The top is bits of magazine with black and white writing and I'm using gloss blue paint to outline the pieces of magazine. I will get a big tree-looking stick, paint it blue and glue on blue leaves. I don't know what I'm going to use for the leaves though. I'm thinking about using felt. I'll post weekly updates on this project. That will keep me from getting lazy and not finishing it. :)
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bluebeaver7

A blue horse

To start things off I decided to start with an old picture that I really like. Now I don't want you to think that everything I do is blue. Blue is my favorite color and I do tend to use it everywhere I can, but the fact that this lovely horse happens to be blue is just a coincidence. It is drawn with acrylics and this a picture that I did a while ago, maybe when I was 9-10, I really don't know. However it is still one of my favorites because of the simplicity and somewhat of an innocence in the painting. You can say that I got the inspiration from my elementary school art teacher (Ms.Birdy, I think that's what her name was) however her drawing looked nothing like this one. It had rainbow wavy hills and a horse eating grass in the far background. I honestly don't know how my brain turned her drawing into this, but I'm glad it did. I like that the black and white back ground makes the horse and all it's blueness stand out. Overall this drawing is not the most advanced artistically and many people wonder why it's one of my favorites. But I don't think that the most advanced drawing is always the best. Oh and also this is probably about the highest quality photos I can get because many drawings are very big and don't fit into my scanner, so I hope to make the best of a normal digital camera.
Thanks for reading,
bluebeaver7 <3

Hello!

Hello, I'm bluebeaver7, a young artist and mostly recently I've been experimenting with my favorite styles. I love cubism, expressionism, modern, impressionism and many more. I also realized that I don't really like drawing realism. Don't get me wrong,  I believe in drawing well, but now with cameras on every phone and computer there really is no point in spending forever on drawing something that can just as easily be done with one click of a button. That does not mean that art is useless though. I believe art should be used to tell a story or convey feelings about what you are drawing. If it is pleasant to the eye then I say it's a success, however sometimes an artist puts something personal in their artwork that a viewer doesn't understand. Of course my art isn't as deep as that, but it does have meaning and a back story. I made this blog so that I could post some of my artwork, success and failures, and write a little about it. I have really never done anything like this before, and I do this mostly for myself however if you do enjoy reading this that would make me really happy. Thank you and I will have lots of material out soon. Thank you. I <3 you!