Buenas noches, amigos.
So my English class is a complete waste of time. The teacher -let's call her Ms. C- gives a lesson about once a month. In class she does her own homework (she's working on a masters in some non-English subject) and all of the students sit there and talk.
Ms. C is also super into acrylic painting. She hangs all her pieces in her classroom and repeats the history behind each one every other class period.
Recently she gave us an assignment to make a painting out of something that we've read this year. Our choices were pretty limited. There was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and Macbeth by Shakespeare. Though I know they are all great literary pieces, I only read Siddhartha and Macbeth. Half-assed reading for a half-assed class. Most students picked Siddhartha. Probably because it was the easiest read and was covered the longest. I however wanted something darker, so I chose Macbeth. I found even found a pretty good picture to imitate.

It has dark colors which is amazing for the content. The angle of King Duncan is a little too weird for my limited capabilities. I ended up making the colors brighter and making the crown "gold" aka yellow.

This isn't the final that I turned in. This is painted in a 5 1/2" x 8" drawing book. The official is actually a lot weirder and, dare I say it, more sinister. I think it's a little weird that the king wears his crown to sleep though. But hey, that thing is expensive. Might as well.

A good two weeks after the assignment finished all the paintings ended up in the library. Of course there were at least five of her own paintings (none of which had anything to do with the literary pieces we've read). I suppose my dislike of her class has branched off into "Get over yourself, woman!"

(This is the perfect time to warn you that I'm a pretty angry person.)

Well, that's my watercolor for the day...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Buenas noches, amigos.
So my English class is a complete waste of time. The teacher -let's call her Ms. C- gives a lesson about once a month. In class she does her own homework (she's working on a masters in some non-English subject) and all of the students sit there and talk.
Ms. C is also super into acrylic painting. She hangs all her pieces in her classroom and repeats the history behind each one every other class period.
Recently she gave us an assignment to make a painting out of something that we've read this year. Our choices were pretty limited. There was Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and Macbeth by Shakespeare. Though I know they are all great literary pieces, I only read Siddhartha and Macbeth. Half-assed reading for a half-assed class. Most students picked Siddhartha. Probably because it was the easiest read and was covered the longest. I however wanted something darker, so I chose Macbeth. I found even found a pretty good picture to imitate.

You can click on that picture for the place I found it. It has dark colors which is amazing for the content. The angle of King Duncan is a little too weird for my limited capabilities. I ended up making the colors brighter and making the crown "gold" aka yellow.

This isn't the final that I turned in. This is painted in a 5 1/2" x 8" drawing book. The official is actually a lot weirder and, dare I say it, more sinister.

For some of you die-hards out there, I know that Macbeth was getting ready for bed before he killed Duncan. But I'd like to think that the person responsible for this pic meant for the chest plate to foreshadow the war Macbeth would have to face (both literal and within himself) after obtaining the crown.

So, if you were to make art of any of the literary pieces listed here, which would you choose?

Oh Look! Star Wars

Bienvenidos! Welcome to my blog.
First of all, I'm not all that cool at water coloring, but I'm okay at copying. No worries! I give credit where it is due. I just like to see if I can recreate a picture.
For instance, I'm pretty proud of this imitation:

I found this at Geek Tyrant. But apparently (as I just read while putting in the link) this link is has a link to the real artist. Oh well. If you are incredibly interested in Star Wars and are dying to see the original, click on that pretty link. It also has one of Han Solo.

Anyway, this is a simple and fumbling first post. Well, technically second. Just forget about that first one, okay. It is late in my small town of Weslaco, TX. This city of mine is about 20 minutes from the Mexico border. No, there are no violent rampages here. No, I cannot see Mexico from my house. Many of us [Mexicans] do speak English. I am one of the unlucky that ended up speaking English-only. It is something my Spanish teacher berates me for constantly.

Speaking of teachers, I am still in school, but not for long! I am a high school senior. After high school my dream is to live at home and eat tacos all day.

Totally joking! I want to be an architectural engineer. Now, if only calculus was my friend...

Do you have a favorite piece of art?

Do you have a favorite Spanish word/phrase/song/ANYTHING? 

Enrique Iglesias is pretty cute.

Sarah Smith was wearing a Star Trek costume! And she said we all looked cute.
I'm not sure what's so cute about a vest and a scarf. Maybe it's my Glee edition blue 3D glasses with the lenses popped out. Maybe I'm just a narcissistic ho like Hunter. They do both start with an H after all...
Well, it's time for calculus. I suppose that means this is my first and last post.