*sings* "It's time play the music, it's time to light the lights..." *grin* Just one of my projects in art class my senior year in high school. I sold him....=( But, he's in good hands, I'm pretty sure. He's one of the pieces I had in my art portfolio that won me a $3000 scholarship to Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Okay, so not exactly the greatest picture in the world...but it'll have to do. This is the ceiling tile that I painted while I was a senior in high school. Every senior who is in Art 4 gets to take down a ceiling tile and paint something which represents them on it. Basically, you have a desert with a glass globe hanging in the middle of nowhere, above a shelf that comes out of the middle of nowhere. The shelf contains books (I'm the studious type), a couple of roses (see poetry section for more explanation), my paperclip "chain of life" which represents major events in my life, a piano (I've been playing since I was in kindergarten), and a bell which belonged to my grandma. Interp? Anyone, anyone? *grin*

What a fun project this was! Our high school art teacher took a team of students he considered to be good artists (I think there were 4 or 5 of us) to an impromptu art contest. We were given a topic to draw something from, a large piece of paper, and paint (red, yellow, blue, and white only). We were given something like 2 hours from the time we received the topic to the time we had to have the work finished and ready for judging. The topic: Terror in the Heartland. (It was only a couple of days after the Oklahoma City bombing.) Everyone else painted a big picture of the US with a broken heart over the Oklahoma region (or slight variations thereof--a hand tearing the heart out... blah blah blah). No one else turned their paper diagonally, no one else used as many colors as we did (we mixed a TON of color--pink and black and lots of shades of green and orange and flesh and...you get the idea). And, wouldn't you know it, we didn't even place.

Eventually, more of my portfolio will be put on here as I get pictures taken of the pieces.