I'm Back from Washington (D.C.)!

I have been back for a week now, but that doesn't matter...
What did I do? Lots of things... we had a whole family reunion (where we ate at a Japanese restaurant where they cooked the food in front of us... I got scallops and beef), a camping trip (next to the Shenandoah River- we played and ate yummy food and slept in tents), and I was productive.
The first item of productivity (it is not in order of when they were finished):

This is "El Gato Meow",  or "The Meow Cat" (still looking for actual names, please comment!). She's and idea I've had for a long long time (like since the second term when we were designing softies), except the idea was originally orange and brown. But... blue and black is BETTER!!
I actually brainstormed a whole bunch of other colors on this cool sheet of paper, maybe I'll put it in the next post if I remember. More pictures:

 Okay, so moving on to more products of productivity (hehe- I still like productiveness better, grandpa!):

Okay, so I know that I said I wasn't putting this stuff in order, but here is the first drawing that I did one day in my free time.
Let me just say that it did not turn out as well as I wanted it (Babushka thought that the person on the right was a man... and just in case you're thinking that too, she's a woman. Definitely a woman). I did it completely out of pastels (except for the basic outline). Here is my reference picture:

I got it off Google. I don't know what the "Indian" thing is.
Yes, I did imagine these people to have an Indian look (will explain), but anyways.
Okay, my explanation: I'm entering this competition called the "Inky Awards Audience Prize". Basically, these people created these book awards called the Inky Awards. They are judged by teenagers. Then, a list of 20 books is put up so that you know they are good.
Anyways, so the audience prize is basically just a thing where you create something (like a video, drawing, anything) and you get the chance to win 20 books. This is one of my entries.
Another entry is...

This is a girl I drew from a book named Drama. It was a graphic novel, and I always thought that it would be cool to see what the character would look like in real life. So, since I don't have Photoshop and don't know anyone with purple hair (and don't want to violate copyright...), I decided to draw her. She didn't turn out half- bad. I hope I have a shot at those 20 books.
here is the reference picture:

I had to change her a bit because the girl in the book has wavy hair and, obviously, she has purple hair.
And no, Mom, this girl looks nothing like Babushka.
Anyways, one more drawing:

This one freaks my friend out. I personally love it and think it's one of the best I've done (but of course Miss Kitty is better). Most of the face is done in colored pencil, some of the shading is done by a really dark lead pencil, and the complete black is done by pastel. Okay, I can't help it. Here are my fingers after I did this:

Even after I washed them they were still grey for a few hours. Anyways, my friend wanted to see it, so here is my reference picture:

Yes, mine is different. The eyes are green (it's a book thing), and in the original you can't see the left eye. Again, it's a book thing, but I assume you want to hear it: the eyes are "mothership green". They glow in my eyes. technically that doesn't happen in the book, but I really don't care.

Anyways, before I leave you, here is a school project. This is a Golador. The word comes from "gato" (cat) "volador" (flying). Yes, I basically called it "Flying Cat". I didn't have much choice: I considered "Fat", "Birat"(try saying it out loud), "Cird"(try saying that too), and Volato (which just reminded me of ice cream and volcanoes- VOLCREAM!!).
I based the wings on the Harpy Eagle (a bird from South America) and a type of cat called Margay. I used these pictures:

 I picked the Margay as my cat body because it was the (from what I could see) smallest South American cat I could find.

 This wing really helped me to see how to fold it over...

And this one helped in terms of striping and stuff.
Onto the Random Picture...

(kitten) "Pwease owner... PWEASE..."
(Owner) "No."
(2 hours later)

(sorry, just had to put that at the end)

My Birthday!!

Okay, so last time I wrote that same day I got another birthday present (YAAAAHHH!!!).
This one will actually stay with me for like FOREVER. It was....

PICCOLO!!!!!!
This isn't my picture, but this is the piccolo that I have. We bought it used from a woman that had barely used it at all. It's quite a funny little thing: I can play it, but it's different (and yes, I've learned my lesson: NEVER play piccolo before flute in practice!) and... well... CUTE.
Point is, I'm not exactly an expert piccolo player, but I can manage because I'm an expert flute player (still need to find some good earplugs, though...).
Onto my actual birthday: it was on Wednesday, and it was quite fun. First my alarm wakes me up and the next second I have two little sisters dragging me to my parents' bedroom, me still half asleep. Everyone sings happy birthday. I get presents: 6 horse movies, a Black Caviar book, a Spanish book (a new one too!!), a mermaid, a puzzle book, and a pretty giant horse poster inside an extra glass frame (I'm still trying to find a way to hang it up). I'm looking forward to using all this stuff, especially the books!
But wait... it wasn't done. I ate breakfast and went to band, then direct to class (I promised my friend that I wouldn't make my usual stop at my locker after band and before class). Then, after class (and another singing of happy birthday) I walk to my locker, and there, on top of it, is a sign that says: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY M2A!! U ARE 13 NOW!!!!" It was pretty cool. It was awesome.
But wait... my friend wasn't finished with me! She hands me a WHOLE BAG and says "OPEN OUTSIDE!!!" We walk outside and I open: 2 erasers (a jack in a box and a red and green lion), a bracelet (from these little boys that my friend babysits), a whole chocolate bar, a bag of tummies, 2 mars bars, a horse calendar, a really cute card from my friend (let's call her Babushka from now on, ok?), and (best of all) one half of one of those best friend necklace things!

This picture is just in case you don't know what I'm talking about- ours is different.
Anyways... BABUSHKA!!!! WHERE DID YOU GET ALL THESE THINGS!!??? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, since I'm on the topic of birthday presents I'll mention Babushka's birthday: that was fun. I woke up ten minutes earlier did everything at full speed, ran to school, and then sat in front of her locker. I think:
"Ok M2A, you can do this."
(I breathe deeply)
(I open the locker)

"Oh. My. God. It's WORSE than I thought!!!!!" 

(this isn't the exact locker, by the way, but that's pretty much what it looked like)

Anyways, I took out the two extra folders I had brought with me, took out the plastic pockets, took a deep breath, and started pulling out papers.

20 minutes later, a crowd of people stood around me, watching me put in the last straggling papers into plastic pockets. Then I took the books out (the ones that were still inside, anyway), organized them by subject, accepted presents to Babushka from others, put them all in, and closed the locker.

Two minutes later Babushka walks in, squeals in delight at my drawing of a hedgehog on her locker, and then opens it. She looks. She looks again. Then: "WOW. What HAPPENED??"

I have to admit it, organizing that locker was fun. I found all the things that my friend was missing: her Parvana book, her Ecology booklet, extra missing copies of brochures, pens, pencils, erasers, EVERYTHING.

Anyways, me and Babushka had lots of fun on her special day and she got enough chocolate to last her a long time... at least I hope it'll last her a long time.

Ok, before I finish this post, a few extra things:

-My birthday party is to-day... you'll either get a post to-morrow, or in a very long time, or just never.

-I'm going to Washington D.C. on Monday (that's why you might not get a new post in a while)

- My account of Babushka's locker cleaning/ birthday was a bit dramatic... hey, you never know when you can practice your writing skills! It actually came out okay! Ok, wait, I can't help myself: Checking my surroundings first, I unlocked the door and gasped with horror... inside the locker dwelt a dragon (wait, WHAT??), very much awake, and ready to strike like a viper. I gathered courage, then drew my blade and said "Thou hast gone too far!! Dragon, I bid thee, LEAVE!" 

That curst dragon dareth not move from his vantage place, so I went into the room and said, more loudly "Dragon, be gone! Be gone from this terrible dungeon!"

He ignored my plea. This meant that I, noble knight, was to duel him (okay then...). So I dueled. Soon I won, and, like a proper conqueror, banished the foul creature from ever setting foot open this room. It left, and in its wake, left a handsome room, perfect in all respects. Well, that was quite a tale. Oh, the things my mind can conjure up on a dime.

Random picture:

This is what the dragon is thinking: "What is this curst knight saying?"

CAVALIA!!!!!

Ok, I'm sorry. It's been a long time. But at least I'm writing now!
News on any upcoming trips: I'm going to America for three weeks in two weeks! Sorry Denver friends, but I'll be going to Washington D.C. to be with my grandparents and aunts and cousins.
SO EXCITED!!! I haven't seen my cousins/aunts/grandparents for like almost two years, and it's going to be awesome!!! Why?
1. I'm going to be productive (yes, cat softie, here I come!).
2. I'm going to draw a lot (and therefore be productive).
3. I'm going to draw a lot to enter a competition for an audience prize (or something) for these awards called the INKY awards! It's an Australian competition: basically it is a prize for books, except the books are judged by teenagers. Every year they give a panel of teenage judges a bunch of books that were published that year (this year's books were all published in 2013, for example) and then they have to create a gold and silver list (each with 10 books) for Australian authors and foreign authors.
Anyways, if you enter the audience prize you have a chance to win all 20 of those books! I intend to win those books- I've already read two, and they're good. Really good.
In other news... I got a solo in one of my band pieces! YAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! So excited/nervous for that. The band director even picked me over some older girls (YAAAAAHHHHH!!)!
Ok... onto the post title. So, three weeks ago (just out of the blue), Mom says: "Hey, I wanted to tell you: we're going to Cavalia next week!"
A week after that I stabbed my finger with a lino carver because I was so distracted (that was really funny- everyone was horrified and I'm just like "What? It's not so bad!"). At random times in class I would be like "56.5x30 is... is... CAVALIA!! CAVALIA CAVALIA CAVALIA!!!!"
Let's just say that I drove my friend a bit crazy.
For those who don't know what Cavalia is and why I was so excited about it, this should answer both questions:

 I will describe my day to you in detail:
First I drove my friend crazy and stabbed my finger in class.
Then I went on a train to my flute lesson and played flute.
I proceeded to go on a train and a tram to Mom's office.
I waited and got changed and read a book and wrote a story plan and got excited in mom's office.
We went to the Cavalia tent.
My sisters kept telling me there was a special surprise.
I guessed it right.
We had dinner in the Cavalia tent (Surprise! But still major freak out- there were TVs everywhere with horses on them and relaxing music-horse...horses...HORSES!).
We went to the actual show tent and sat in the fourth row (YAAAAHHHHH!!!!).
The show started (Ok guys, spoilers. Anyone who doesn't want Cavalia ruined should not read the next section).
Intro: They asked trivia questions about Cavalia (I got most of them right).

Scene 1 (kind of still intro): Toy horses everywhere on the stage. Two cute paint foals come out and run around and do what they do best: be cute!! People come out and sing and dance and play cello- YAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Scene 2: "The Discovery"- Horse grazing, human comes along. Human dances in pond a bit and attracts horse's attention, then: INSTANT BOND!! (YAAAHHHHH!!!!)

Scene 3: "Cavalcade"- horses run around. I couldn't really focus on what was happening because there were so many of them: HORSES. HORSES. HORSIESSSSS!!!!!!!

Scene 4: "The Ball"- THis one was quite fun. A man was in a cave and he climbed up onto this giant ball. Then he starts doing tricks on it (running up and down hills with it, jumping, etc.) when all of a sudden A HORSE COMES OUT AND DEMANDS TO EAT THEM MAN'S APPLE! The man asks the audience if we think that we should give the horse the apple- we say yes. He gives the horse the apple. The horse demands another one. He gives the horse the other apple. (YAAAHHHH!!!)

Scene 5: "Liberte"- People ride horses around bareback and no handed and do lots of tricks- YAAAHHH!!!

Scene 6: "Bareback Riding" (excuse me, but that already happened- oh well. It happens again)- A woman comes and does amazing tricks with lassos. Horses come and they ride and do tricks on them bareback. People bounce on trampolines over the horses and do lots of flips and crazy dizzying stuff- YAAAHHHH!!

Scene 7: "La Vida"- Song with words where I can understand half because they're in spanish: Basically, it says that horses are dreams, etc. etc. they're the coolest, the best etc. etc.- YAAHHH! BUT WAIT-IT'S NOT OVER!!! Men riding on horses, lades flying beside the horses, landing on the horses, doing tricks beside the horses, flying over the horses AAAAAHHHHHH!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!

Scene 8: "Le Miroir"- Two white horses come and dance together (it's called dressage, but it's basically horse dancing). I LOVE. (Wait for it... wait for it...) YAAAAHHHHH!!!

Scene 9: "Roman Riding"- Omg, funnest scene. People come riding on two horses by standing with one leg on each horse's back. Screaming, yelling, whooping. One of the riders falls asleep on his horses. All the other people start exchanging horses, until only one lady is left controlling six horses while standing on two, and jumping over things, and running around, and everything- YAAAHHHH! But it hasn't finished yet- this is when the fallen-asleep guy comes in. They put up a jump really high and yell at him to come and jump on it. He wakes up, looks at the jump, and shrieks- AH! He insists that it is too high. They lower it. He turns around to get on his horses properly and they make it higher again. He shrieks again but they insist they won't lower it. He goes but does not jump over it. Everyone encourages him to try again. He tries- and he jumps the thing and lands on the horses' backs! (just in case you were wondering, it was all on purpose)- YAAAHHH!!!

Scene 10: "Pieds Percussions"- The only thing I really remember from this scene is the horse and the dark lights. I'm sorry- the horse was too beautiful and distracting (YAAAHHHH!!!).

Scene 11: "Libertad"- A love scene. Most of the focus was on the human artists, as they swung high up in the air and did amazing cool things that could have cost them their lives if there was a single slip- but there WERE horses (YAAAHHH!!). I think there was a song about dreaming in this one too.

Scene 12: "Carousel"- Ok, before I say anything, this scene was AMAZING. The horses were so well disciplined and the dancing and everything went spectacularly! There were a whole bunch of grey/ white horses and all the riders were dressed in like these amazing silk gown things that were so beautiful and reminded me of the elves from Lord of the Rings or something! The horses did a bunch of dances together and there wasn't a single bump even though all the horses were packed together quite tightly and were moving sideways and doing a bunch of other things!- YAAAHHH!!

Scene 13: "Haute Ecole"- This was a type of four seasons thing. First it snowed. Then leaves fell (I have like two billion of them- XP) and then it was the spring and summer. It was like a dancing duet. It was beautiful and very exciting!

Scene 14: "Grande Liberte"- This scene was quite funny. There was one trainer and five horses, and the night I was there the horses weren't being very obedient. Three of them were constantly going off and nipping and playing with each other while the other two did obey the trainer. He managed to get them together in the end, though (later in the stable tours the horses kept getting pointed out as "the naughty horses")!- YAAHHHH!!

Scene 15: "Trick Riding"- This scene was quite fun. The horses would gallop across the stage while their riders did a whole bunch of crazy tricks like hang off the saddle and stand and stuff. It started with a lone cowboy in the desert looking for something, and in the end he got off the horse and had to try to chase it so that he could get back on- this quickly escalated to him getting chased by a miniature horse across the stage (all on purpose, of course!). It was funny because at the beginning of the show when they were doing the trivia thing they mentioned that there was a miniature horse and I was just waiting for it to appear until then, when I had already given up hope that it was part of the show!- YAAHHH!

Scene 16: "Bungees Cavalier"- This was focused in the air dancers, this time using bungee cords. While the horses waited to recieve the dancers when they came down to pat them upside down or land on their backs or something the dancers bounced in the air, some of them coming SO CLOSE to the audience in the middle (I was near the edge). I don't even know how they kept a routine, all I would have been able to was bounce a bit and then not get enough momentum to keep going- YAAAHHHH!!!

Scene 17: "Finale"- as suggested by its name, that was the finale. All the human artists and the horses that had just performed came on stage and waved goodbye. Then the show ended and the cute foals came back to entertain us as we tried to get back to the eating tent so that we could wait for our tour of the Cavalia stables!!!- YAYAYAYAYAYAYAHHHHHHHH!!!!

As mentioned in the last scene: The last part of the surprise was that I got to get a tour of the stables!! All the horses were really pretty (and cute, as in the case of the foals), but they were all really tired and were just settling down. I was really tired too, it was like midnight then.
So then we went home and were tired for the next day.
You may be wondering: why did Mom decide that we were going to Cavalia? Well: it was my big early birthday present (my birthday's in a little more than a week!)!!

There isn't that much more exciting news except that I went to the Melbourne Writer's Festival a few weeks ago (that is how I found out about the INKY awards)!
Random picture:

This is my new background- YAAAAHHHHH!!!!

Also, I forgot to put this up- I had this idea stuck in my head ever since I saw the original picture but I only got around to doing it like a month ago.

Long Time, No See!!

Okay, yes, I went seriously overboard with not posting this time. I mean, when was the last time I posted something? Like, a real post? (checks) Uh-oh. March 19th. Luckily not 2012. But that's bad enough. I mean, seriously. Since I have lived so much life since I last wrote I will briefly summarize it:
Wait a second, the last post I was just starting on my softie!! That softie is done now, and it has nothing to do with unicorns. It has to be a surprise for a friend that reads my blog, though, so I cannot post it (yet!). It is SO cool, it will never leave my life EVER.
Anyways, I'll try to summarize my life now...
Wait a sec, that was right after the choir camp?! Oh no, it's been too long.
So I'll summarize it the best I can...
-I went to Fiji for a week!
-I had various interesting assemblies at school (including one about breast cancer, two run by two year 7 houses, and others).
-I created my softie of awesomeness.
-I bought some things that will give me productiveness for probably more than a year.
-I went to Japan for a little more than a week (it was cool- I went to almost the top of the Tokyo Skytree, which is basically Tokyo's Eiffel Tower, and got TONS of souvenirs, including these two really cute manga books called "Princess Knight" which are really good. I also killed my feet one day but had tons of fun.).
-I was SO VERY productive last night!
This is a sketch that I came up with about a year ago:

At first it was just black and white because I didn't really feel like it needed color because I had all the colors in my head (that didn't make sense, did it? Why would I not even shade a finished drawing?). But then I remembered the last time I had been to France, when I did a painting with my grandma. She asked my to do a sketch before I started painting, so I did. Then she also told me that it had to be in color, and that it had to be exactly as I wanted the color to be. With this sketch I grudgingly added color, but didn't really try very hard so it doesn't look that good.
You must be asking yourself: Why don't I like adding color to my sketches? The answer is, I'm impatient. Once I get an idea in my head, I want to do it, NOW. With paintings that basically impossible, except with this little gem:

This painting was painted on August 29th, 2011 (I checked). It took me one evening. No planning, no nothing. A light bulb turned on in my head and that was it. An hour or two later, this is what became of my inspiration (not including the paper at the edge, that's just hiding my name).
This canvas may not look it on the picture, but it's pretty big. I guess you could put 4 whole pieces of paper onto it without them overlapping. So now it currently resides one the hallway wall, where I pass it everyday.
I think I was more creative (in a way) when I was younger because all my ideas just came out just like that, without any thought or planning (I'm serious: 3 out of the four stories that I am currently working on just basically came out by themselves-especially the first, which I wrote when I was seven years old-, and even though one of them I had to set out and plan last year so I could know how it would end, I still work off the originals).
What I'm trying to say is that yes, the idea kind of develops in my head subconciously, but then when it finally is done it came out and in an hour or two it was done. This painting was inspired by these:

This is a series in Spanish that was about magic. I loved them then, and I'm intending to read them in a few weeks again.
But that sketch... I have no idea what inspired it whatsoever, or I can't remember. But that doesn't matter now, because last night I got a little urge to just paint and took my (already prepared) canvas and just started painting. After a few hoyrs, this was the product:

I'm pretty happy (even if the lips are a bit awkward). It turned out much better than I thought it would, but I guess that's because I just spent an eternity mixing colors and using super tiny brushes for almost everything except for a lot of the background.
Anyways, I think that what triggered my sudden urge to paint was another painting idea. There is this gorgeous song which I just love and in Japan (last week) I just got the sudden idea that would enable me to use my extra canvas that won't ever give me peace (wherever I move it it's always falling down and just causing inconvenience, which on the bright side at least lets me remember that it exists). Anyways, I'm not giving any hints to what song it is, but I will say that my sketch didn't start off well so I'm being forced to do some research (I've only found four pictures so far, none of which are like my vision, which is annoying because I'm not that good at drawing people, much less wings-hint ;) .
Oh yes, I forgot to say that, again that little strip of paper at the edge isn't part of the painting, it's just covering up my name.
Hope you enjoyed!

What Breed?

Hey guys, I've decided! Thanks for your input!

Alright, this is the re-written horse breed post.
What breed of horse am I most like: help me decide!
So the deal is that I would like to make a portrait of me as a horse. I just can't decide which breed to make myself (and color, but that will be a different question...)!

First question to ask yourself: What do you think I am most like? One of the light horses, like a race horse, one of the heavy horses, like a clydesdale, or something in between? If you were thinking about a pony, sorry, because I REALLY don't want to be a pony.

If you say HEAVY HORSE, then just tell me, because there are varying degrees of heaviness, but not that much, and I'm not much of an expert of drafts.

If you say MEDIUM HORSE, then read the following:
I don't know very much about medium horses, but I do know that andalusians and friesians fit into that category.

Andalusians are relatively heavy horses, but they generally are used in the saddle. They were bred as war horses so that they could carry all the really heavy metal armor.

Friesians are pretty heavy horses as well, but I don't think they are heavy enough to be actual draft horses.
They generally pull carriages, but they also do saddlework, I think especially dressage.

If your answer is a LIGHT HORSE, then read the following:
There are different types of light horses. There are horses like arabians and thoroughbreds, which can literally do any horse sport easily. There are also the sport horses, like the Hanoverians and Warmbloods, which do lots of jumping and dressage and cross country, but not much else. There are also stock horses, which do lots of western and halter showing.

This is an arabian. Arabians have very prominent faces, since they have a dish. They are generally considered a thin type of breed, and I think are used in almost everything (especially in endurance and cross country and dressage). Arabians are generally very energetic and if they are not excercised they can get really jumpy.

 This is a thoroughbred. Thoroughbreds: These are more typically race horses, and run faster for longer distances than a normal quarter horse. These are more sleek and usually are really only used for racing, although they also compete in eventing, show jumping and dressage. Thoroughbreds are very sensitive to saddles and brushes and things but in general have good temperaments.

 Stock horses are horses that do a lot of work on a ranch. Most of them are quarter horses, but there are also breeds like paints and australian stock horses. Most of these horses have big hindquarters to help them make sharp turns and stops and to run short distances really fast (maybe so that they can get a cow that's running away). If you think that I could be a stock horse, just say stock horse.

 Warmbloods are the fancy sport horses that (mostly) compete in the olympics. They usually dominate dressage, show jumping, and cross country.
The first picture is of a hanoverian.

 This is a Trakhener, another sport horse.
If you think I should be a sport horse, just say sport horse.

What Color?

Hey guys, I've decided... thanks for the input!

This kind of links onto my last post (the one about what horse breed I could be?), but this time I'm asking about the coat color. This page has most of the horse color range in it:

http://daughterofthestars.deviantart.com/art/Equine-Genetics-A-Guide-71688420

You don't need to read any of the text.
My personal favorite coat colors are grey (medium- dark), chestnut, and appaloosa (pictures are coming in a few lines).
Now, that link doesn't talk about certain patterns, like appaloosa, and paint, and others like that.

 This one on the left is called a Rabicano. I believe this can go on any color of horse, so it could be white with black, grey, or anything else.

This is a Tobiano. On this marking the markings are rounded (not sharp and jagged) and typically the legs, back and beginning of the tail are white. Tobianos can have normal face markings and there is more white than black.

This is a Sabino. It is often confused with roans and rabicanos and has high white markings on legs, white markings on the belly, often the face markings are extended beyond the eyes, and there are also sometimes white patches beyond the general white.

This is an overo. Typically the overo markings are more sharp and irregular. Usually there is more dark than white and the face is usually white with blue eyes (my horse is a bit of an exception right here). The legs are usually dark. There are also some variations, like:

The splash overo. I LOVE spalsh overos. They look awesome. I would describe them as just the bottom half of the body is white, while the upper half is the darker color. I think it's a cute color.

Last but not least are the appaloosas.
This is a leopard appaloosa (my favorite variation). Leopard appaloosas just have spots all over their body. They can have five spots. They can have 100 spots, but they are still a leopard appaloosa.

This is a leopard appaloosa as well. I LOVE the coloring on this foal.

This is a blanket appaloosa. Typically they have a "blanket" of white over their rump (which can actually go up until about their shoulders) which has spots inside it.

This is a pintaloosa, which is basically a cross between a pinto and an appaloosa. You can tell the difference on this one because a blanket is different than this pattern (especially since there aren't any other extra blankets- and this one has an extra patch on its shoulder!).

This last one I would like to point out is called a fleabitten grey. Fleabitten greys are basically white horses with little chestnut spots sprinkled across the horse's body. There can be lots, like on this horse, but there can also only be a few, and they can also be all concentrated into one place (the most common of which I think is the shoulder- there is this whole thing about "bloody shoulder arabians", which is actually just those chestnut fleabites all concentrated on the shoulder, which makes it look like it's bleeding).
That's it for now.
If you have any questions or an opinion/ suggestion, please juat caomment or email me personally.

Whaaaa...?

Another week and it would have been another MONTH!!! What is going on, M2A?
Just lately, I feel like I have no time to do stuff.
Which isn't true, I have tons of time.
I guess it's a phsycological thing.
Anyways, it definitely isn't homework. Nu-uh. I feel like I'm not getting enough of THAT stuff.
As I said: it's probably a phsycological thing.
Anyways, last time did I talk about the oncoming choir and band camp?
I hope so.
Anyways, so I went. Most of the time I played with the band (because the band is accompanying the choir on some songs and playing in the band is my priority), but I sang with the choir a few times. It was fun. There was this random point where they gave us a duet type of thing and nobody wanted to play the first (hard) part except for me. It was fun. On the first night we watched "The Sapphires" and on the second night we had this thing called "Red Faces".
"Red Faces" is basically a talent show. At first I didn't really think of competing, but then they showed us the prizes:
1st: A WHOLE JAR of Jelly Bellies.
2nd: 60 lollipops.
3rd: 40 lollipops.
That got me going. So I competed with the only thing that I could totally do out of improvisation and without much practice: animal noises.
Now, I know it might sound totally weird, and it might sound like a failure, but it wasn't.
I made up a story about a puppy who didn't know how to bark. So he took a little walk to try and find out and on his way he met a horse, cat, bird, duck, pig, and goat. The story ended with a mountain lion attacking him and a dog saving him. When I signed up I totally thought "Oh, this is going to be so bad."
When I got up on stage and gave the show's name ("The Puppy") I started feeling confident (from the resounding and completely immature "Awww!" that came from the audience).
Through the middle, I felt pretty good.
By the end, I was feeling awesome.
It was SO much fun just doing all my animal noises and creeping people out/ surprising them.
I got third place (along with a girl who did a singing solo- which, in my honest opinion, did not sound good AT ALL- and a group of- I think- dancers), and 8 lollipops.
The group that got first place didn't completely deserve it because they messed up the first time they sang, recieved thorough advice from the teachers, and on top of that got extra time to practice and a second chance at performing.
The group that got second should have come first. It was so epic!!!
After the show, everyone came up to me, asked to hear a noise, and then told me I should've gotten first place.
I still get requests all the time for a certain animal noise.
I love it.
Anyways, after that I went back to school. I said a speech about how annoying sisters are (receiving supreme admiration from the teacher, but not first place- I was actually beaten by another girl who talked about siblings), offered my sisters a lollipop each if they could keep from crying for a day (they both failed), and went to the Moomba Festival.
The Moomba Festival was really fun. The only reason that I even realized it existed was because one of my friends was in it (I waved to her while she passed, and she saw me- the next day she came into the class yelling that everyone has to say thank you to me for coming), but it was really cool. My favorite part was this egyptian jambox thing.
At the front and back went two women with wings like this:

This one was the one at the back.
I'm jealous. I want those wings.
But that wasn't the best part: the best part was the sphinx.
Why? Because the sphinx had headphones, glasses, and an ipod. Not to mention that when you could see its side it was a jambox. It was blue and gold. It was awesome. I can't find a picture of it, but it was awesome. Whoever thought of it was a genius.
Anyways, after the fesival we went and had lunch out.
Last Sunday we went to a Fete at my old school. I got to meet all my friends, get a new book (it is SO good for drawing stuff!!), and go on some rides. It was super fun!
Last was yesterday, where I went to my first soccer practice. I had fun, and hope that I stay in that mood throughout the season (last season I got a bit low on spirits). It was nice just kicking a ball around and passing it to someone again (and I even shot and scored a few times).
Anyways, this weekend I kind of just went through a little folder of art that's on loose paper. I'll just go in random order:

This is the first horse I tried drawing after I saw CMM's (CinnamonMewMew's) style of drawing. It has seriously affected my own drawing, and it was a very important stage in my horse-drawing life.

That first one I messed up, so I tried again and (with a minor mistake on the cheek) finally got it to my liking. For some reason, I REALLY like the eyes, but I don't draw them like that anymore.

This was how I drew horses before. I remember being SO proud when I drew this. In a few years, I'll remember one f my drawings that I drew today or something, and I'll think "Wow, this is so bad. Look at them now!"

This was my first shaded thing EVER. I was so proud, but when I tried showing it to Dad he went "Yeah, yeah" and kind of didn't pay attention (I don't remember what he was doing).

Then I did this. My art teacher told me it was too small on such a big page, but I think it looks cool, all alone there.

(loo up) That summer... wait. The summer before (it was the 2010 world cup...). I drew this from a newspaper, when Spain went to the finals. Personally, the facial expressions are pretty scary. The guy at the front looks something like Smeagle in his Hobbit form, and the other guys' mouths are just plain wrong.
This is a Black Beauty that I drew from the cover of a book. Not bad.

This was the cover I was looking at. The horse there looks good- natured.

Remember Abby the Kitty? Well, she has some buddies:

(up) Boris the Horse (my attempt at a cartoon horse)...
and Tom the Dog (should have made it Doug the Dog). Abby is probably my favorite, but I absolutely love the dog. It's awesome (it's the tongue and the tennis ball, I think).

I also drew this cat, which I kind of ended up rejecting. I like its tail, though.

From the same time period I have Perry, which I actually drew in honor of one of my friends....

And this horse. That was kind of like my golden age of (MAYBE not-so-realistic but still very productive) drawing. I was jealous because in my art school I wasn't part of the visual arts, and that was actually one of the things I wanted to get into as well as in language arts and band. I wanted to be a visual art kid, so I just kind of made up for the loss by drawing stuff. A LOT of stuff.

The last article of art that I have is a self portrait that I did when I was maybe 8, 9, or 10. I don't remember when. What I do know is that I drew myself in my favorite "watermelon dress" and that I didn't think of myself as particularly pretty.
I'm thinking of doing another self portrait. I should. Maybe I'll get productive and do it sometime.
I also actually have another self portrait that I did in school. It actually won an award and was hung in the library. It's hanging in our house right now, but I think this one right here is better, I guess because it is the tiniest bit realistic, but whatever.
Onto the random picture!

I'm starting softies in design tech and was thinking about a cute unicorn- we'll see!