Today was Zo's birthday party. I started at Jelly Clouds, a craft place. We got to pick anything under $25 (most were things cut out of a board of wood), and I chose a canvas. Only Zo, another girl, and I got a canvas. The only bad thing was that they were square. Which isn't as good, because it's harder to divide well.
I had many ideas, like a Minion from Despicable Me, but I decided that it wouldn't look good on canvas. Then I thought of a creepy-looking tree that you would find in a cemetary silhouette with a sunset background, but I couldn't figure out how to draw a tree. Then I wanted to do abstract, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. So I decided on a palm tree silhouette with a sunset background.
I first sketched out where I wanted everything to be, then I took yellow paint and drew the horizon, kind of wavy. Then I painted yellow up to about halfway, then got orange. I made the orange kinda overlap with dry brush strokes, meaning... Meaning that it didn't BLEND blend, with more of a stroke-y touch. I did the same with the red.
The tree had almost a black base (almost a third at the bottom) with a palm tree. I was really scared I wouldn't be able to do the effect I wanted on the branches, cause the brush had to be a little bit dry, but I did it pretty well, except one of them wasn't as good as I would've liked it to have been.
But it was really good, and everyone was really surprised.
Zo did abstract. She separated her canvas into different sections, painted each a differnt color, and put tiles and feathers on the different ones. It was... okay.
The other girl did a koi fish, and it was pretty good, but... I don't know... They are a couple years younger. So I do have an advantage.
Anyway, they had cupcakes instead of a cake. Sparkly cupcakes. Okay.
Then we went to the pool. And Zo had this huge turtle that was so big it barely fit into the trunk, so we all got on it (it took about ten minutes because we kept slipping off-- the air was shitfing around and making it unbalanced) and then these guys kept swimming under and pushing us upside-down. Thing is, I'm going to be going to school with them next year.
And then forty minutes early, my dad shows up. WHAT!? Apparently I have to go home do eat. EAT. Cause I'm going with Erin and Bran's family to see a movie. So we have to eat early. And miss forty minutes of the party.
And guess what? The movie was sold out. So I missed it for nothing. Now we're at home, and we're going to see the 9:30 showing.
And tomorrow at 7:50, I'm off to violin, and directly after that, to Elizabeth's house.
