T1... orders up...

Let me seeeeeeeee... okay, so yeah, trimester 1 is in the bag, and some of my art is in another type of bag as well: A TRASH BAG! This trimester consisted of a variation of 2nd-rate and 1st-class pieces. Though I found myself becoming incredibly creative and venturing WAY off the beaten path... WAAAAAAAAY off the beaten path. A technique (though debatable in terms of originality) that I adopted this year, and towards the end of last year, is to do google image searches on basic art terms, and flip through 10s and 100s of the result pages. I was overwhelmed with the richness and unique ideas that begin to brew during the stirring of this pot of images. To cotinue with the analogy, whenever I found the right balance of ingredients within this image soup (the elements and principles of design) I would dip my ladel in and have a taste of it... resulting in an art project. Sometimes it sparked artistic brilliance, the fine dining experience -- color me 'Drew' & Mr. AZ -- and equally produced some sour tasting flops of a dish -- Saosin & Cuddy Buddy. Also, some of you may remember when I COMPLETELY lost even how to hold a spoon and spilt the soup all over the floor... there was a week in which my chef skills (drawing abilities) had just got up and walked out on me. Fortunately they missed me and returned just in time to save my artistc career. My skills seem to continually dust the rust of my pots and pans and put my resteraunt back on track to a 5 star rating (well hopefully a 6 actually... AP grading, blaaaaaagh). Wow, I will be probably get criticized for my horrifically extended metaphor I've got going... but they will be banned from my food joint forever, so HA!

Sincerely,
Your master chef in training,
-- Misour Drew

*tear*

Freedom of Spray

Color me 'Drew'

...stall...

Saosin

....IT IS MY HIP!

Ivy League

Stuart Davis

Born: December 7, 1892
--Philadelphia, PA
Death: June 24, 1964
--New York, NY

He was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his Jazz influenced, proto pop-art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful. Exposed at this exhibition to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, Davis became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism and modernism in America.

Sir Gregory:

Birffffffday...

Andrew Steven xxxxxxxxx
JUNE 23, 19xx
Winchester, Massachusetts

Maurits Cornelis Escher
JUNE 17, 1898
Leeuwarden, Netherlands

M.C. Escher was a graphic and design artist who utilized, and was consequently famous for, his exploration int0 the fields of impossible, infinity, and tessellations. He portrayed connections to the mathematical realm by making use of shapes, figures and space. Additionally, he explored interlocking figures using black and white to enhance different dimensions. Integrated into his prints were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings and spirals. Escher sketched landscape and nature in his early years, and also worked with insects, which made frequent appearances in his later works.

167

Question 23) Please name the abbreviation for Copper:

...in 6th grade, a teacher would assume for one of their students to simply write down 'Cu' in a borderline legible scribble. This expectation was no different in Mrs. Dayton's science class either. Yet, once i finished with the usually drab tests, I would doodle my silly little characters on the back of the paper. I utilized this process several times and it became habit for me to simply flip over the assignment when finished and sketch away. Although, on this particular day, I decided to make the significance and association of my drawings much more appropriate to what the test contained. Once my test was completed, I started back at the beginning and drew little comics about each and everyone question on the entire test. I even made a comic strip for one of the essay questions that illustrated the growth of a plant. I sat unphased for the remainder of the test diligently working on each drawing. I passed it in as if nothing had happened... well Mrs. Dayton felt quite differently. She saw all of my drawings and decided to reward what I would call "childish doodles" with a +2 for each and everyone. I was unaware of these additional points until I received the fully corrected test a week later. 167 was printed in red marker across the top... 

One Red Crayon to rule them all... One Drew to find them...

95, 96, 97, 98, 99... 100! oh yeah, that's right, guess how counted to 100?!?! yeah, that's right: I DID! 

*catching my breath*

okay, well where was I before I was rudely interrupted by this whole counting ordeal.... ahhhhh of course, my drawing: Tree Through the Window #83. Yes, this is the 83rd time I have drawn this EXACT same tree sitting at precisely the same position as all the previously constructed masterpieces. And to answer your question, NO, this never gets boring... even with the attention span of a 7 year old boy, I have drawn this apple tree faithfully every morning for the entire year. You would think I would eventually get good at drawing this image, fortunately I don't know any better and will continue to think I have perfected my drawing of this tree, because OBVIOUSLY I am the best tree drawer in the class. Ask anyone... they will all say the same thing. My blonde headed friend Tucker attempts to reach my level of artistic nirvana every morning as well, and we share the same pack of crayons... but no worries I always had dibs on the red one. Everyone knows that apples are red... always... right?

Watcha know bout me... whatcha whatcha know...

...psssssstt, listen up... this one is little bit about me.

Why hello there everyone, my name is Andrew Steven Barkhouse... but please, do call me Drew. I am currently the ripe age of 17 and are enrolled in Ellsworth High School's glorious and magnificent AP Art class... no sarcasm, I swear. But anywaaaaaaaay, art has consistently been a part of my life as long as my memory stretches, which is pretty far for anyone who cares. My parents encouraged expressing my imagination at every step of my development. They found it critical, and therefore I thought like-wise. Through the early grade levels I would be reminded that, "Drewwwwww, now you know it isn't time to have the crayons out! Please put them back where they belong and join in with the class... we are learning how to count to 100 today... isn't that amazing!?" Well, in my mind all I wanted to do was keep coloring, but I guess I didn't have much choice... blame my submissive young self: 1, 2, 3, 4... AHHHHHH, I'm getting away from the purpose of this post, please pardon that brief detour. As I was saying, art has been a core value that has been instilled in me since day one and I can't imagine not having it somewhere in my life. It is fair to say that I am detail oriented artist that struggles with broad mediums due to their lack of fineness. I have been slowly shedding this shell for the past couple years, although my roots of simply a #2 pencil and doodling in the blank margins of my homework are forever with me. Inversely, as far as enjoying professionally and amateur art, my attention immediately gravitates towards the design and thematic pieces rather than the "real-to-life" aspect. Michael D. Edens is an artist I just discovered recently and so I guess now is as good a time as ever to bring him up... well actually, a picture says 1000 words right?! well, of course it does...