My Wish

Movement with charcoal was my favorite lesson. For the independent project, I wanted to do movement again but I didn't know exactly what to do for it. My inspiration came when I was thinking back and how I let people control me. I felt like a marionette because other people could pull my stings to make me do certain things. I know marionettes are french and it would be easy for them to move in the drawing. From the encaustic project I loved the writing so I decided to use that in this drawing. In english, the words mean "My wish is to be as free as a butterfly." I feel like that quote goes well with the idea of being controlled and wanting to be free. I like this drawing a lot, but I wish the biggest butterfly (first movement) would have been darker or had the wood showing through because I do not like how white it looks.

Dans mes rêves...

For the encaustic collage project, I used an old book as the first layer, then I used pictures I took last spring break in Paris. Wax was not my favorite to use, I could not get the wax to do what I wanted it to do. Which made me decide to use the simple flag colors so that I could incorporate France more. The words in english mean "In my dreams you do not exist". I chose the words because my dream was to go to Paris. Last year I learned to say that and it became my favorite saying, then this year I heard the words in a French song that I like, which gives it more of a meaning. The words are written in india ink, covered by a layer of wax and then white oil pastel was added. This was not one of my favorite projects, but I do like how it turned out.