h2o is How I Paint

In addition to all of my different art I have done in school through my art classes I have also done different painting in my free time. I have to say painting is one of my most favorite mediums for doing art, at home and up at my cabin I enjoy using acrylics. I love the richness of the color and how it dries.

“On the Rocks”

This is more of an abstract painting that has three different layers to it. The top layer is a sunset; the middle layer is some water with melds into the bottom layer which are rocks that are being splashed on by the waves. I love the how the colors stand out here. This painting was inspired by different photographs of Lake Superior. Summer after my 8^th grade year I was able to have the opportunity to go kayaking in the Apostle Islands for ten days. I spent a lot of time on Lake Superior, and I loved it. This adventure helped me find out more about my strength, determination and conquering my fears. This journey was not easy but it was so worth it. Now here at the College of St. Scholastica I can look out my window and have a view of Lake Superior and I can normally hear when ships are coming in and out of the canal which I think is pretty neat.

“Shadowed Waters”

I did this painting with a sun higher in the sky, but all the other colors around it in the sky and in the water are very dark and love the shadow that is starting to creep in from the side.

“On the Dock in the Bay”

This painting is based on a photo taken by my mom up at my cabin. It is of my sister Savanna and my cousin Ellie, during that summer they were the best of friends and had some of the greatest times just being silly kids. When I came up with the idea for doing this painting I was so excited to get going because I didn’t want to lose my ideas. However, I did not have a paint brush… so I ended up using a shish-ka-bob stick (a very longggg tooth-pick looking dealio). Which worked out pretty well (:








Stars in the Night
I also did a second painting with the shish-ka-bob sticks, it was of the night sky (: growing up I remember countless nights of going outside just to look at the stars. I just recently got my first tattoo of a dragonfly, and I think my next tattoo is going to be a collection of 9 stars on my foot, 5 representing my family, 3 for my best friends, and one for everyone else important in my life.

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