Here's the new update on my art projects. This is project number 4 and it is called "The Name/Word Project." What we had to do with this one was find a picture we liked and picked five colors out of it that we liked, and that went well together. These were our Color Harmonies. With those colors we were to make a good design using only letters, shapes, and symbols. We didn't even really have to have a word be apart of the picture. We didn't have to matte this one but, we did have to spray mount it onto foam core. Oh, and the size was 5"x 11." This project took me FOREVER to come up with an idea. But I finally found one, to great relief. Especially, since there were only 5 days left before the due date. But this is what I came up with. The Chinese symbols are "Family" or "Home." And for all of you siblings/relatives, you may recognize the dragon above the window on the house(that is if you can see it). It is the Welsh dragon, that is one of the symbols for the Reese family (mom's side). It's Welsh and not Chinese, but I didn't think anyone would notice it, while yet being a little inside thing for me to smile at. Oh and when it came to the class vote I got in second, one vote behind the first. I still don't know if I've made it on the Wall or not, but I'll let you know when I know!

"Family"

Acrylic and Watercolor painting

Christmas Is Coming

Ok I don't care what anyone else says but I've done It! I've put up our Christmas decorations. Now granted for us, at the moment that only consists of a 3' Pre-lit Christmas Tree, purple lights left from Halloween, and now our new Christmas wreath that I just made. Yup, I just made it. All for around $20! I made the horrible mistake of going into Porter's (the local craft store) with a firm mind set to NOT BUY ANYTHING! Of course I failed miserably. I even left my wallet in the car so I wouldn't spend anything.

The reason why I was in there to begin with was because I was waiting for Jesse to get done donating plasma. That was another mistake, not having him with me to tell me no. So I bought a wreath, a bunch of flower stuff and a wreath hanger. The next day I made it, left a bunch of glitter on our carpet (right after I had vacuumed it of course), and hung it up. I had a lot of fun doing it and want to do it again, but there is no reason to unless I'd be able to sell it somehow.

Oh and if you think our early preparations for Christmas are bad, take a look at this house. It's HUGE and it's completely lit. I couldn't get it all the way in the picture too. Call me crazy but I would love to do this kind of thing to my own house someday.

This is just a little part of the decorations these people have!

And no I'm not referring to my size...if you hadn't notice,

but I'm taller than the figurines!

Walt Disney World

Hey everyone. So as most of you may have heard, Jesse and I are trying to intern at Disney World in Florida next year. We already know that Jesse has been accepted into the program (College Program) but we are still waiting to hear back about me. Technically this is our back up plan if we don't find a job anywhere else. But if I do get accepted to the program as well, and we do decide to pursue that path, then we'll be in Logan (or wherever mom and dad are) for Christmas and then we'll high tail it to Illinois to be with Jesse's family for New Years. And after that we will report to the Mouse. We don't know exactly when we have to be there but we just know sometime in January and we would be there till August. But! If I don't get accepted then we wont be going. The thing is you have to live in their housing if you are in the program, and if you're married then your spouse has to also be in the program. So if only one of us gets accepted then it would be kinda hard to follow that.

If we do go then we have an offer that is open to everyone. If we both get in, then we will each be able to get up to 3 people into the park for free, 6 times that we work there. Which means between the two of us we can either get up to 3 people in the park 12 times, or 6 people in the park 6 times. Hope that makes sense. We're already of course going to save at least two of those times for mom and dad and Jesse's parents, and leave it open to them to accept or not. Other than that, the rest is fair game. Although I will say...Brittany already has dibbs on a day. So you better hurry quick and make plans if you want to go or not. Because if you do then you might want plane tickets now while they're cheap! And if you don't come, we'll try to bring you a souvenir. =]

"The Wall" #3

Hello everyone! So I have the results from my newest project for my Color and Design class. I got on "the Wall" again! Yay! However, I don't know the vote of the class on this one because I was late to class because I was stuck in the library trying to get my matte size correct. But there you have it. I have now, technically, made it on the wall every time, 3 times in a row. Yes I was bragging right there. Please excuse me for it, but I also don't think anyone else in the class has done that. But then again I don't think anyone else other than me, knows that as well. But there you have it folks! However, I will admit that as you may see, may design may be good, but some of my color is off (aka the background, it's a little too dark). I struggled with it for a long time and unfortunately still do. So there's my weakness.As for our next project, it is called the Name Project. We are to come up with a sweet design with sweet colors (Color Harmonies) we pick out of a picture we like (so that we get the color no matter what) and only using letters, words, symbols, and shapes, make a masterpiece. To tell the truth, I've thought about what I'm going to do for about 2 weeks now, and I still have no idea. And it's due next week. So cross your fingers and wish me luck that this artist's block we'll leave me. Other than that, I hope you enjoy my painting.

(p.s. We didn't have to paint these so that's why some are different. And I have no idea why my font is underlined.)

The Wall!

(I couldn't get a straight shot of this one)

"Birds in the Rain"

Analogous Acrylic Painting

Happy Halloween

from the Crawfords

Hey everyone. I hope you all had a Happy Halloween. Jesse and I sure did. On Thursday we carved our pumpkins with one of our neighbors. I decided to go with a pattern and Jesse decided to wing it with his own creative design. Mine is the headless horseman and Jesse's is the scary looking monkey. Or at least that is what it looks like to me ;).

On Friday we went to the famous Haunted Mill that is in Teton (8 miles away from Rexburg). I had gone to it last year with a friend and was scared so much and had so much fun that I knew I had to take Jesse this year. Needless to say, even though I had already been through it before, I was still scared half to death and screaming majority of the time. Jesse was very brave and didn't scream once, but he later said that it was probably the scariest haunted thing he had ever been to. It takes about an hour to get through and you go through four floors of this old run down mill. There's a waterfall and suspension bridge and you even go through and underground mine! It's really cool. If you are ever in Rexburg during Halloween, I definitely encourage you to go. That is if you like that kind of stuff.

On the actual night of Halloween we finally lit our pumpkins and waited maybe about 5 seconds for any trick-or-treaters. We actually saw a couple walking around with two little kids and thought they would come to the door...but alas they didn't. So I guess now Jesse and I will have to eat our own Halloween candy of Reese's Cups, Reese's Pieces, and Snickers all by ourselves ;). We also went and watched the movie "Surrogates" in the cheap theatre. Good movie. We really liked it. It wasn't our favorite, but we still liked enough we'll probably get it when it comes out on DVD. So that was our first Halloween together. We wish we could have been in Logan because we heard Brittany was throwing a Halloween party that we didn't want to miss but alas we couldn't afford it. Hope you all had a merry Halloween and I hope nobody gets too many cavities ;)

I Made "The Wall," But I Didn't

Ok so this has been a ridiculously long time since I actually found out the results and grade for my last project but here are the results. I was voted number 2 in the class =] (yay!) and I got the best score possible. I also made The Wall again...but then I didn't. To better explain my phrasing-I made it because the design was perfect. There wasn't anything else I could've done to my painting to make it better. And the teacher really liked it...therefore it "made" the wall. It didn't though in reality because my matte board (the big black thing that is its frame) was 1/3-1/2 an inch off on the measurements. And that's why my painting is sitting at home right now and not up on the wall. However, I did feel a little better about myself because my teacher specifically came up to me after class and told me the only reason why my painting wasn't on the wall was because the matte size was wrong. Even though I really don't know how I measured it wrong. But still I was only 1/3 off. *sigh* I was not very happy that that was the only reason why I hadn't made it. But there you have it. I made The Wall...but then I didn't.

Caught Red Handed

So the second art project that we turned in was a Monochromatic painting. Monochromatic is where it is only one color, but you are using the different values of that one color. Hopefully I just made sense right there. Well, for this project the subject was Children's Stories. And our teacher actually said that even if we made it up it could count...so basically anything as long as it rang as kiddy...in a way....

Well, after drawing a bagillion thumbnails (little sketches about the size of your thumbnail) trying to figure out what in the heck I was going to do, I finally settled on Alice in Wonderland. Now I don't really have any fond memories of this story, in fact it actually scared me when I was a little kid and still kind of does. But I really liked the card soldiers so I went for it. And vwalla! I give you the card soldiers painting the roses red.

"Caught Red Handed"

Monochromatic Acrylic Painting

(close up)

Oh and just so everyone knows. I did come up with this design by myself. I did use the characters but I did not copy the placement or the overall design of this piece. It came out of my own noggin. There was a question that was raised in class of if I had just copied it. I'm betterthan that! But we actually just turned this project in today and this time I got 2nd in the class vote!!! =] Let's just hope I'll make "The Wall" again! That would be sweet!