has anyone ever read the book speak and/or seen the movie? its a pretty good book and i highly recommend it to everyone. the movie isn't half bad either considering kristen stewart plays the main character, melinda. her typical pained/blank expression worked for this role so i didn't mind her so much. haha. anyway!!! i won't give the story away, but melinda ends up taking an art class at her high school. her art teacher was this really cool hippy kind of guy who had the students draw lots out of a broken globe that had the subject their art would focus on for the year writen on them. let me just say that i wish my art teacher in high school was that awesome. i had some stuffy, stuck up lady who didn't let you think outside of the box whatsoever and actually the reason why i stoppped taking art classes until i got to college because i hated her class so much. anyway! melinda pulled out 'tree.' aaaaaaaand this is where my post starts to have any relivance to my senior sem work. :P
melinda argued that she already knew how to draw a tree and wanted to draw another lot. the teacher forced her to stick with the tree and in the end she had some killer works of art. i feel like melinda did at the beginning at the beginning of the story right now. i know what a tree is and what it looks like. but i've not been able to capture that life that they seem to have and so far my drawings can be compared to melinda's "circle with two lines as a trunk" tree. i'm starting to carry my camera around to take pictures of any tree that gives me inspiration. :) i'm even making a trip up to the yorktown battlefields tomorrow afternoon to get some really awesome pictures of the trees that are out there. still working at it.
oh, and on a side note i'm going to take my first stab at making my own paper here in a few days. i've still got to build a screen and get this one ingredient that escapes my mind right now, but after that i'll be in business. after the trial run i'll be able to figure out what i have to do differently then its mass production time so that i can have material to work with soon!! :D
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