The Poem

I decided to choose a piece from Bukowski cause i tend to find his stuff enjoying and a bit funny. cliche, yeah. But i like him.

Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say, stay in there, I'm not going

to let anybody see

you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I pur whiskey on him and inhale

cigarette smoke

and the whores and the bartenders

and the grocery clerks

never know that

he's

in there.

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,

I say,

stay down, do you want to mess

me up?

you want to screw up the

works?

you want to blow my book sales in

Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that

wants to get out

but I'm too clever, I only let him out

at night sometimes

when everybody's asleep.

I say, I know that you're there,

so don't be

sad.

then I put him back,

but he's singing a little

in there, I haven't quite let him

die

and we sleep together like

that

with our

secret pact

and it's nice enough to

make a man

weep, but I don't

weep, do

you?

I can be a Frog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TNIIbaBOo&feature=sub

A-z

blissful

Hope

Illuminate

Justice

Zenith

Interview

Goin to Chicago for an interview. And if you ain't cool with this, then pucker up. OK. BYE!

kid loves bacon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPjak6fqBM

Summer '09

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1. This summer, I attended the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation at the Colorado College in Colorado Springs. It was an honor for me to be apart of such a great art program for high school students like myself. There were times that i felt i deserve to be here, but more often i felt like didn't really deserve it. I'm just grateful for being chosen to have an opportunity that many students like myself would kill for.

2. Acrylic Painting of Greg. He's one of the models who at first has the impression of a homeless person (mostly because of his dress appeal), but we found out that he's been a teacher and a fighter pilot.

3. Acrylic Painting of a woman

4. Acrylic Painting of another woman, that was a good day.

5. The only homework we had was to take 8 large pieces of paper (about 18x24 in), fold those into 16 squares each (128), and then paint each of the 8 sheets with a color and their hues. The other homework we had was a sketchbook assignment that we were given a week to do, and everyone did it the night before. i chose to do 1 of the 3 assignments that requires of me to draw a self portrait representing my traits or emotions.

6. I was beginning to become a bit tired of drawing and painting from observation all day, so when i was drawing my hand i decided to add an eyeball.

7. Again, i wanted to do something different from observation. So i did a drawing of a head blowing up. I sometimes find the sick minded ideas to be quite interesting and most fun to create.

8. It's probably not surprising that i have a nude piece. I first i thought i messed up drawing this, but then went with the abstract flow, try something out of my comfort zone.

At MWSAF we only had models with clothing on, there was no nudes. We couldn't even watch an R rated movie. So i had to go to hipbone when i got back to OregON.

9. Charcoal nude.

10. The process (large Thumbnail Sketch)

11. The Execution. This piece i find isn't my best work, but its one of the most personal and closest pieces to my loving heart. I have some things i want to add on to it though.

12. Back in business Baby!! planning on having it ready by Scholastic. The middle finger was the only one that didn't break off.

Last one of the school year

http://lhs.loswego.k12.or.us/z-mcbrides/AP/2009/Jackson/c/index.htm

This year i focused around the human body and figure for my AP art concentration. Throughout the year i had to find ways of putting the human figure/body into a piece of art. This required me to visit the Hipbone studios, where i had to draw random naked people ( both male and female). Probably my favorite pieces i did was dickinson and the 12th piece i did, not the 13th. Both pieces made me have a feeling of joy and self-completion. the most difficult experience i had with my concentration was thinking up ideas (which i was able to do with in days of their due date). I'm excited about next years art class. I feel like i'm going to progress and push myself as an artist over the summer. My advice for next years art class is procrastinate. But only should you do this if you can create art in a short period of time. It worked for me, it might work for you. Probably try doing a piece of art in one night and see how you like it.

i went to the zoo this past sunday and i saw an elephant do an abstract painting. the animal started by spraying paint on to cover the background, and then it painted some stuff on there. sorry for the glass glare.