Kriss,+Laura


 * Fourth Quarter**

For the fourth quarter I finally found something that I actually wanted to do that I enjoy a lot. I decided to get back into crocheting. I made the blanket in the picture below. I was going to make it a lot larger but then I wanted to just make a small lap blanket that would be easy for travel and easy for the summer time. This is the blanket. It is striped red and black with 6 rows of each color.



I also started another project. I wanted to make a baby blanket for my sister. So I started the blanket. It takes 468 Granny Squares, divided up into different colors. I started with the pink. I don't think I will be able to finish before the quarter is over because well that is a lot of squares.

The pictures of these projects have been uploaded to my flickr account. I am currently working on getting them onto this wiki. This is the link to my flickr where I have the photos of the blanket that I made. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33451141@N02/

Third quarter was a lot better then the second. I decided I wanted to put what I was thinking onto paper. I don't really like to write for everyone else to see but I figured that I should do it. I started with blue pieces of paper and painted them black. I did change some of them though, I thought they would look better and pop more if I did it with different colors. After they were black, I wrote different quotes on them. Not really knowing how it would turn out. I thought it would be cool to make a collection of them. So far I have three pieces.
 * Third Quarter**

"I miss the lips that make me fly." "Some people need to cry out all their tears for a heart full of smiles." "Nothings as it seems."

They all mean something different to me and I thought that I should share it. The first quote is from a song that was basically the song I listened to all summer. This past summer was more difficult then others and music was the way that I was able to escape. No matter where I was or what I was doing I had music with me. This summer was about discovering new music and old that made me feel different things. I decided that I think it would look better if it wasn't so dark with the black paper so I did the same thing but painted the paper yellow. Instead of painting on the paper I cut out the letters from purple construction paper to get this...

The second quote explains the past few years actually. They were filled with tears literally. It's been the hardest. I've grown apart from people that I thought I never would. I've had many close people to me die and I felt like I was slowly loosing everything. It took awhile for me to realize that even though I was crying so much, in the end there might be a smile.

The third quote comes from the movie American Beauty. We were watching it in English when I had decided that I was going to do this as my project. I fell in love with that movie and all of the messages that it brought with it. I thought that it made sense to write look closer because that was kind of the theme of the movie. I learned a lot from the movie that it was hard to just put it all into just four words. I got this... This one, to me has a lot more behind it. Because we can't see what everyone is really doing. We don't know if someone has a hidden agenda. I guess I have come to believe that you can't take people for what they show because nothing is ever as it seems.

This second quarter was a rough one for me. I didn't know what I wanted to do for art let alone want to show everyone else how untalented I am. I worked on a few things in my sketch book but nothing stuck out for me. I like to work with words or quotes that I know mean something to other people. I like to get that feeling that if I was to write out this one thing and show it to one person that it would hit them and they would be able to relate to it. I did a little of that this quarter but I never came out with a final product.
 * Second Quarter**

Artist Statement
 * First Quarter**

When I draw its more like I feel then try to draw. I don't draw things or people or certian objects. I let the pencil flow, the things I create are just line drawings. They are more to just see how it goes. I draw to please myself and to get out my stress. I do things with lots of words. I like to draw things around the words that connect to the meaning behind the quote. To me drawing doesn't have to be a perfect picture of an object. To me it has flaws and the lines are not perfect.

Neither of these are finished products. But these are some of the steps I took to get to my finished product.

My project this quarter was to draw a large dragonfly. I am very close to being done. The final product will look like the pictures above but just a little larger. It has taken me a long time to get farmilliar with drawing, as I don't do it often. To me it never looks right and I start over again. I have never been the one for drawing I always put work down and I never finish it or I just keep starting over.

I think that this project is just a little more special. I want to help bring a smile to someone's face. A very close friend of mine is going to be getting a surgery and one thing that she really likes are dragonflies. I decided that I wanted to make a dragonfly for her to help her when she is going though it all. I guess because the project is so special and close to me I have been trying to make it perfect.

Because I have been trying to make it better then what I have been doing and I keep starting over I think it has been taking me longer to get to my final. I want to make this a great picture/ painting. I have been working very hard to make it look nice that I think that I am over thinking the whole thing.

In the end I have not finished my project yet. I am close to being done and I know that it is going to turn out great. I think I am taking to much time on trying to make it perfect when my best will be just perfect enough.