Reflecting at the End of the Course

Art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Everyone in my family is an artist. My mom works with ceramics and all the plates and cups and bowls in my house were made by her. My brother is a very serious photographer. My aunt designs business cards. My Grandmother makes paintings and collages, and my grandfather was an architect. And my cousins makes jewelry and drawings and paintings. So pretty much everyone in my family does some sort of art. I also have an extremely artsy house instead of spending money on expensive shoes my parents spend money on art. It makes them happy but I think someday soon my house will burst open with overload of art! Last year I chose to do art instead of theater. I spent the entire year working on designing fashion. I took a course two summers ago on fashion design and ever since I have had an interest in it. I am also really interested in collage. I have a wall in my room that I worked on for a long time and it is covered in a collage of fashion designs and pictures and other interesting things I found along the way. The wall is very overwhelming but it makes me happy when I look at it because its so detailed and it represents me. This class has helped my art and inspired me soooooo much! I feel that I learned so much and it wasn't soo strict on exactly what the assignment was we still had space to make it our own. Before this class I did not feel so confident in drawing but now because of all those drop everything and draw days I felt it got much better. Art has been my favorite class this year. I have felt I have worked so very hard in the class. I would come in to art an extra 1-2 hours a week during x-block or lunch so that I could spend extra time on my art. My art grade was important to me and I wanted to feel satisfied with my art. For me my favorite project we did was the found objects sculpture. I felt very inspired making my house and I could just keep adding to it and I loved the outcome of it! However the project I am most proud of is my self portrait. I spent so much time working on it and I had a little struggle in the begging but by the end I loved what I had created. I was sad to see the flower had broken but we still have a picture of it so its okay! This class was a good get away from other classes I was always happen when I walked into the open room. I also made so many friends from this class it ended up really helping me! I see art playing a big role in the rest of my life. I know that when I am older my house will be artsy. I also want to keep taking as many art classes as I can next year and the rest of my life so that I can get better. I truly loved this class and I think I have never had such an organized art class in my life. It was just a great experience for me! It made me feel very inspired with the variety of work we were doing! I also think drop everything and draw days were very creative and a good way for a break and to learn. If we really think about it we probably learned so much from those days (even though some of them made us hyper) I dont think that I can answer the question how does it end? because it does not end. I dont want it to I want to keep doing art and keep being inspired!