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Styles of Art Project - Halfway Point

For this assignment, I had to draw a picture of a little wicker bird in the three styles of art using different media. At this point, I have drawn all three images (representational, abstract, and nonobjective), and added marker to the nonobjective image. I still have to add value in pencil to the abstract and color, value, and texture to the representational image.

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Representational Self Portrait - Sketches

For this project, I had to grid a photograph and the full size drawing paper proportionately. I then had to use drawing pencil to correctly recreate a selfie I took with realistic values.

Unfortunately, I was not paying attention when the sketches were assigned, nor did I ask what to do for them afterward, so they were not completed.

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Sketchbook Assignment #5 - Half Human Face

For this assignment we were given a photograph of a celebrity. We taped one half onto a sketchbook page and had to sketch the other half in pencil only. The assignment did not get completed, sadly. Due to my inability to properly manage time, I did not make time for it between working on the Creating Space project and homework for other classes.

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Sketchbook Assignment #4 - Student’s Choice

For this assignment, we were supposed to draw anything from real life or from a photograph that was not copyrighted. Unfortunately at the time of this assignment, I was swamped with work in other classes and did not complete the assignment amidst trying to complete other work.

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BLAS 175 - Journal 3

This is what I submitted for my jornal #3 assignment - yes I did submit it incomplete because I wanted it to be on time and I didn't want the professor to think that I hadn't done ANYTHING - I am going to continue working on it tonight and I will submit to her the final versions via email as soon as I get them done (for hope she will grade it more favorably) 

The prompt for this assingment was: As comprehensively and thoroughly as possible, please summarize the identities that make you who you are, being certain to include your sex and racial or ethnic identities, but you must include at least 3 (more than 3 is fine) other identities that are important aspects of how you see yourself. Discuss which parts of you are associated with privilege and which have typically devalued, including your own experiences, including any feelings this discussion elicits and your relationships as impacted by these identities. Please reference/apply at least three course concepts. This essay should be no longer than 700 words, using good grammar and vocabulary. LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE PENALIZED 10% FOR EVERY DAY BEYOND THE DUE DATE. NO PAPER WILL BE GRADED AFTER DEC 11.

The identities I have chosen to analyze are: female, bi-ethic, Christian, mentally ill, student/learner, sex positive, black sheep, and ally.

Female: I am a cisgender female meaning that I identify with my gender assigned at birth (I was born female and identify as female). Generally, in our society being female is devalued and associated with being inferior, feeble minded, weak, and often times “in need of the assistance of a man”.

Bi-ethnic: I am a bi-ethnic person; my mother is Caucasian and my absent father is African American. I do not truly identify with either group but I am including it because it is a requirement of this assignment. I grew up in a relatively ethnically diverse family (Caucasian, African-American, Mexican, Native American, etc.) and grew up with my mother in a predominantly African American and “black” (by definition of non-white) community in San Diego, but I would not consider my family culturally diverse (very much “white American”/Caucasian culturally). Throughout school I did not fit in with the African American kids and was often called “white washed” (by my African American friends) because of my clothing and music choices. In American culture, being anything other than white is immediately less privileged and undervalued/devalued.

Christian: I identify as Christian on the side of general “Christ follower” rather than by RELIGION. In Christian communities that I have been I have found that I am generally uncomfortable and have opposition to some of their ideas, teachings or the ways in which they do things. An example of this would be that I am a strong supporter of the QUILTBAG (also known as LGBT) community while most Christians and church interpretations of the bible consider homosexuality a sin (and often times deem it more “unacceptable” than other sins – What happened to “… but all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” and “… first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.”). Christianity is looked upon as being an acceptable and dominant religion in the US and is usually valued highly – especially over other religions such as Muslim or those who do not follow a religion such as atheists and agnostics.

Mentally ill: While I do not like the connotation label of mentally ill, I do acknowledge that the fact that I have depression, anxiety, have a history of self-injury and deal with frequent suicidal type ideations, etc. would classify me by most if not all people as mentally ill/ mentally unstable. Most people when asked what they think of someone who is mentally ill would throw out words such as unstable, crazy, unorganized, psychotic, dangerous, etc. Being mentally ill is extremely devalued and stigmatized and in my experience most people are very unsure of how to react when they find out that someone they know or someone they are close to has mental illness.

Student/learner:  I currently am in college and thus would consider myself a student. I have been in college for about four and a half years since Fall of 2008 and so the title of student has occupied a lot of my time regardless of how I did academically in classes. Even outside of formal school I consider myself a learner; I enjoy reading new and interesting things, researching, having healthy and thought provoking debates and conversations. Despite considering myself a student and a learner I am for the most part unsatisfied with my academic progress and achievements (or lack thereof?). Being a student is a privilege as I recognize not everyone has the opportunity to be able to attend even K-12 school, much less college.

Sex positive: I proudly consider myself sex positive and a “sex nerd” (comes primarily from the Sex Nerd Sandra podcast). Wikipedia defines sex positive by defining sex positive movement “… a social movement which embraces open sexuality with few limits beyond an emphasis on safe sex and the importance of informed consent. Sex positivity is "an attitude towards human sexuality that regards all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and pleasurable encourages sexual pleasure and experimentation…”.” 

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