Oil Painting & Ceramics (Winter 2011)

I have finally taken pictures and made scans of my artwork from Winter semester this year. I am an art major with an emphasis in graphic design, but I get to take all sorts of art classes. Last semester I took ceramics and oil painting. Art classes last three hours twice a week, and require a ton of time for all the projects. They are intense, but I love what I am learning.

Oil Painting

Here is my painting before any instruction...



Here are my best paintings at the end of the semester...







Ceramics

These are all pieces I hand-built and glazed in my ceramics glass...

Golden Birthday! 22 on the 22nd!

This year was my GOLDEN birthday!--a birthday I've been waiting years to have just so I could say I am 22 on the 22nd. I had a pretty awesome birthday, and mainly because Brian always does his best to make my day special. In the morning I woke up to the smell of pancakes cooking. Soon Brian came in with my special birthday breakfast-in-bed. This is becoming a tradition of ours--to make each other breakfast in bed on each other's birthdays.

My mom sent a package of presents in the mail, and I got to open them and the ones I picked out last weekend when Brian and I went shopping together.

Before...

After!

After I took Brian to school, I just worked for most of the day. Hillary says that is what happens when you grow up, but I was determined to still have fun! That evening we had an ultimate frisbee game. (I was recruited by Hillary out of desperation. I did not want to play at all, but now that I have played a few games, I have been having a blast!) It was the second game in the tournament...and we won! That meant on to the third game of the single elimination tournament out of four. (By the way, we won that game too, and will play in the championships on June 29.)

After we had our amazing win, I realized Brian was at the game watching. He surprised me by coming and watching after he did some homework. So sweet! Then Shiloh, Hillary, Brian, Whit, Kristi and I went to Craigos Pizza place for dinner, which is one of my favorite places to eat. Brian and I went home and watched Mary Poppins, one of the new movies I got. We had a hoppin' poppin' Poppins party! :)

Piano Marvel

I have been working with Piano Marvel for a couple years, and I really enjoy what I do. Piano Marvel is amazing because you learn how to play the piano so fast! It truly is effective because you see the music you are playing, you hear the background accompaniment so you know what it sounds like, and you see which notes you get correct and incorrect. After you play through a song, you receive a score. You are shown your correct notes (they turn green) and your incorrect notes (they turn red).

Piano Marvel is for everyone--beginners or advanced. We have a method series of 6 levels and 5 sections in each level. After you pass off songs with a high score, you will earn gold, silver, or bronze trophies, depending on the score. This is very motivating for students. We also have a repertoire library where you can choose from 500+ songs to learn. We are working on adding more songs all the time, and getting them edited. We split each song into smaller sections which makes it easier to learn. We also include a PDF of the song that can be printed.

Piano Marvel costs $15.00/month, but with my promotional code, you can have a subscription for $12.00/month. My code is 3BC8BB03.

You can try Piano Marvel for a free trial month if you want to see how you like it. Just be sure to enter my code so when you subscribe you will only pay $12.00/month!

Want to see more??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QotI0BLTGNE