I'm back to a normal.

But better than before's normal.

Now... to create. 

I need to finish those poppies...

This isn't anything special.

But I figured I'd upload it anyways. Sometimes my hands just spit out random doodles when I'm anxious.

I can't even believe it!

Got my splint off yesterday. Still a long recovery road ahead of me, but I'm over the huge hump of it. Such a wonderful feeling. :D So incredibly pleased with the results thus far. Thank you everyone (but the medical teams wont be able to see this :/).

Collage, Spinal Chord, and Eye Ball. Not The Greatest Picture Quality Though.

Just a couple of experiments. I had a lot of fun collaging, especially. Good way to get out some ideas and gain some inspiration. I got all these clippings from a Glamour magazine that made it into our house. I don't really like buying my own magazines and I find that magazines like Glamour and Cosmo are politically incorrect and harsh enough towards the female figure and esteem that I can make use of it somehow. Statements, I guess. I kind of wrote a few things here and there in some of the clippings. Just notes to self. Nothing profound.

A rose and peacock feather.

This was a late night doodle/paint project. I think I'm going to start doing this without ink. I need to track down my actual water color paper. That way, I can actually give depth to it. x) If i tried doing it on this... I'd definitely put holes in the paper. I'm happy with how it turned out though. Very loose.

I need to finish the poppy painting for my mom. I've decided that will be her birthday gift. :) I may want to go out and buy her something little like... nice lotion... or something like that, but she's already really liking the painting. Too bad it couldn't be a surprise, but there is a 100% guarantee she'll love it and get use out of it since she asked me to paint her something for our kitchen.

I need to post a photo.

On another positive note, I made my first friend at Cornish. He's a nice guy. :3
I'm glad I'm meeting like minds. Going to be a wonderful experience. However, I am really going to miss my parents, my birds, my room, my two very best friends... yeah, move in day is going to be hard. I'm also leaving town before one of my best friends are for school. It's kind of depressing. :/

Ah well.

Also~
The insurance company finally said that they will cover some of the surgical cost. They always claimed that this was essentially 'plastic surgery'. Made all of us mad, but the letter my surgeon wrote to them obviously had a good affect. :))

Good stuff.

(I get my splint off Mondaaay).

So,

I get my AP Portfolio scores in the mail soon and I can't say I'm too thrilled? I want to know what I got, but I feel like I didn't do too well. I feel I didn't have many things to choose from. However, I liked a lot... more like 90% of the pieces I posted/submitted. There were a couple works I was slightly iffy on, but over all, I though everything was strong individually. I just didn't think my artist statement was as strong as it should have been and I totally didn't enter the dimensions for the digital part, which I assume brought me down.

Not like it matters what they think of my work ;p But still.

Ah well. High school assignments are behind me now.
And at least I got to receive the fee waiver, so instead of paying $85 for this, I only had to pay $5. If I had to pay full price... I would not have done it. Can't afford to be throwing around money like that right now. Plus, this score isn't even going to benefit me in college. Lovely.

Overall, I'm kind of mad.
But at least my submitted pieces came back undamaged, but some of the tracing paper was gone. Weird.

So, I think I may end up making an etsy account and try to sell prints of my work... and maybe some originals if I feel like it would be alright to detach myself from them (and if they are well photo documented). I feel like it could be a harmless thing to do and maybe would give me an opportunity to do more creative things too. I can't really guarantee the success rate, but it's definitely worth a shot.

Things are starting to change.
And it's kind of stressing me out. I have a lot to think about and wonder about and do. And this isn't just about college.

I've just been keeping things simple lately. Mainly been interesting in simple ink line drawings with some watercolor. It's a good experimental thing to do to pass time, I suppose. :p

Still a little bit swollen.

I'm getting feeling back in my face now, which is good, but I'm also starting to feel the pain more and that's not so good. It's ultimately good though. :)

The permanent changes of my appearance: my nose is slightly tipped up now, my lips match up, and my teeth touch - therefore, the goal has been met! I have a good bite now and once I am fully healed, I can bite through those subway sandwiches and their once impossible, but oh so lovely, cucumbers.

For the first time in a long time, I actually drew cartoon ish things last night. I feel purged. Now I have a new peak of inspiration. Woo.