Charlotte Blogz

I’m For my 20% project I did painting and this week I am working on painting the background and getting the tracings of the flowers down onto the canvas. I accomplished getting the background with an even texture and even color. I struggled with my patience on waiting for the background to dry but other than that everything when smoothly and well. Next week I am going to need to bring some more stuff for me to get it done more efficiently like a cup for water, a blow dryer to dry the paint quicker so I can move on to the next step quicker. Next week I am going to start off by making some final touches to the tracing of the flowers then start to fill them in with toilet paper, glue, baking soda, paint and who knows what else there will be! See you next time for next week’s 20% project blog.

The best room of all time in my house is my kitchen. This is my favorite room for three reasons. Number one is, there are so many different amenities within the radius of the kitchen. My kitchen it is a big open layout that flows into my large living room with a MASSIVE T.V. that is able to be seen from my large island in my kitchen. Our kitchen is pretty modern with marble countertops, white backsplash with a very light bit of grey marble within, dark hardwood floors, white cabinet’s, and all silver appliances. The kitchen, hallway, dining room, big living room, and small living room/sitting room are all connected together into one open layout. My second reason is the food. When I’m in the kitchen I don’t have to worry about having to get up and walk all the way to the kitchen from anywhere else in the house. When I’m in the kitchen Im about two steps away from all of the food. And my third and final reason of why my kitchen is my favorite room is because of the family. At first it may not make sense but once I explain you will get it. The kitchen is the place where everyone hangs out and by everyone I mean all of my family. Im in the kitchen a lot because I love that even if people are in the living room, I’m still with them because our rooms are connected. And I can stay in the kitchen the whole time because I just want to eat. This is why the kitchen is the best room in my entire house.

For my 20% project I’m doing painting and this week I was working on all of the different methods to create a thick and textured paint. I accomplished three different types of methods that create a good thick paint for me to draw more realistic 3D flowers. One of the ways includes toilet paper, glue, and acrylic paint. I shape the toilet paper into the shape that I fancy, then glue it down to the canvas. After its glues down, I put a couple of drops of glue on the toilet paper, then spread it out going towards the edge so it will stay. This gives it that realistic flower look. My second method was using baking soda! I combined acrylic paint, and baking soda to creat a paste that’s almost like watered down clay. My third and final method was puffy paint. I paint a flower petal with normal acrylic paint then once it dries I outline it in puffy paint. My accomplishments were figuring out what works so that I know what methods work most pretty, and efficiently. I struggled on figuring out how to get the perfect shape and size with the toilet paper. I don’t need to make any adjustments to my painting techniques because so far its all working! Next week I am going to start my first painting by sketching out my entire painting and depending on how much time I have left I may get to start painting!

I have been waiting for summer this whole year and it is finally close! Don’t get me wrong I love school and seeing my teachers and friends, but there’s something about summer that gives me the sense of relief, relaxation, and freedom! I have been preparing myself for summer for a while now. I’ve done things like move my winter clothes to the bottom of my drawers and move my summer clothes to the top. Or start to get my summer tan on, by laying in my backyard with a bathing suit on. (btw I don’t even have a pool) With the UV index being 8 when its only April, its close and I wont be hit by surprise when summer finally comes. (Which is in approximately 37 days 13 hours and 25 minutes) This summer I have so much to come such as two beach house trips, soccer games, house boat trips, lake house, Palm Springs, and so much more! Those are just a few reasons why I am ready and out of this world excited for this upcoming summer!

Hi I’m Charlotte and for my 20% project I decided to do painting. For my first week of working on my project I just did some research and got all of the supplies that I need to get my project done. The first thing I did was make a list of everything that I needed to buy for both my paintings, and my tri-fold. Then I made two other lists. One for the different kinds of paints and what the difference of the ways that they paint, and the second list is the brushes and what the difference of them is and what types of paint is for what types of brushes? Some of the struggles throughput this research was figuring out if these hacks were reasonable with price or capability. Then I looked up different hacks and ways to figure out how to make the paint look thick and have texture. I found many different ways that other people did this and then I wrote them all down on a google slides. After I found all of these things, I wrote a list of all of the things I would need that I would like to add to my paintings. I went onto amazon and found all of the things that I would need to buy for my 20% project and now I am all ready and prepared to do more of my project next week. I left off on having everything on lists, and in my amazon cart! Some of the things I need to make adjustments to is making sure to stay on track with my schedule. I need to make adjustments to this because I would sometimes fall behind on my schedule or get to far ahead on my schedule to the point that I wouldn’t have anything to do the next week. Next week I am going to be testing the paint, and brushes on a canvas along with the different methods to add texture.

This month I am reading If I Had Told Her by Laura Nowlin. I have not finished this book yet but I am currently on page 155. So far this is a story about a boy and girl named Autumn and Finny. The two grew up together because their moms are best friends and they have been since they were little kids. In the first book Autumn and finny took their first steps together, their first words together, but their first day of middle school was a bit different than their other firsts. They claim to have just grown apart but deep down inside they both know it was something much more. As the book continues we get to see the ups and downs throughout their lifetime and relationships with their other piers through Finn’s, Jacks, and Autumns perspective. I love this book so far because I love how the same story is told in three different perspectives which makes it feel like three totally different stories. I love it because in one perspective they could be having the time of their lives but at the same time with the same thing that’s happening someone else they could be feeling lonely or depressed or annoyed or who knows what but I get to see how everyone else in the story feels and that really helps me get a sense of what is happening in other peoples lives and minds and not only the narrator. My favorite character so far is Finny. He is my favorite because Finny just has a special kind of love in a way that makes it feel like its you two in the world and you two only. He gives off this special feeling that is unmatchable. A character trait that describes him is loving. He is loving, because when a character is around him they can always tell that they feel safe and almost honored to be a part of his life. An example of this is what it states this in the text “ ‘Oh, Finny,’ Autumn says. Her voice has so much emotion in it that my heart flutters.” Pg. 97 This part was loving from finny because the way he felt a flutter in his heart because of the way that Autumn was admiring him was showing a sense of love and compassion towards Autumn. My favorite quote from the story is “I love you Autumn.” Pg. 87. This is my favorite quote because it is the first time that Finny is confessing his feelings to Autumn. This is a big deal because after eighteen years of a strong love towards each other the word is out and they are able to spend the rest of their lives together forever. Or so they though…

My dream job is to be a pediatrician. In case you don’t know what a pediatrician is, it is a doctor who specializes in the care of children and young adults. My dream job is to be a pediatrician for so many reasons and here are a few examples! The first one is I LOVE kids. I find them so fun to be around and being a pediatrician would give me just that plus I would get paid for just being around them! My second reason is that one of my favorite things to do is help people. Me having this job would mean that I get to help people under the age of 18 every single day for who knows what! It could be a sickness, it could be a constant pain of some sort, it could be something that I have never even heard of, but as long as I get to help them, they could come to me. My final reason is getting help from my closest friends and family. The reason that I would be able to get help from my friends and family is because lots of them are all some sort of nurse/doctor. My grandma for example is a mother baby nurse. A mother baby nurse is a nurse that takes care of the baby right after it’s born. They clean the baby, put it in a swaddle, etc. My aunt is a school nurse so she deals with kids and their injuries all the time. With the help of them I could get so far in the pediatric world, which is why I would want to be a pediatrician.

This month I read If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin. This story was about two kids that grew up together named Autumn, and Finny. At first their relationship seems like a close friendship with an inseparable bond between one another but as they grow up, they start to feel like their relationship has gotten too close to the point that they may be in love. It’s their first year of high school and for some reason they won’t hang out anymore. They both claim to have just grown apart but deep down inside they both know it’s more than that, they just can’t put a finger on it. Autumn has a boyfriend named Jamie and Finny has a girlfriend named Sylvie. Throughout Autumns relationship with Jamie, she loves him but it feels like it’s more of a temporary romance. She has always loved Finny and that love will stick with her always and forever. I liked this book because I got to see so many different events and situations going on all at once. I loved to be able to see the story from so many different perspectives such as Finny, Autumn, Brooke, etc! My favorite character from the story was Finny. He was favorite character because he always was there for anybody that needed him most. For example when Autumn would get picked on he would always be there for her to stand up for her but do it in a respectful way by not starting problems with his piers. My favorite quote from Finny is “ I’m sorry. Im sorry for ever hurting you.” Pg. 363. This is my favorite quote because it shows me how much Finny cares for Autumn and wants to make sure she will always be ok.

I am invisible. Here’s the story behind it… It was an ordinary day when I woke up I felt a bit weird so I walked into the kitchen where my mom was cooking breakfast to see if I felt warm or looked sick but she wouldn’t answer me! I ask her “mom, mom, mom! Can you hear me? Why aren’t you answering me?!” She still didn’t answer me so I went to my dad. Just like my mom he wouldn’t answer me so I thought maybe I would check myself in the mirror but guess what! I was invisible! I couldn’t believe it because just last night I had a dream about me being invisible and I went to the mall and broke some rules by shoplifting in all of the stores of my choice. Anything I touched turned invisible with me so I didn’t have to worry about people stealing my floating clothes from me! That would be second hand steeling! I thought if this happened in a dream and it’s all happening in real life right now then why not try to make the whole dream come to life! I drive down to the Irvine spectrum and hit all of my favorite spots! By the time I was done I came back home with about $2,000 worth of stuff but I paid ZERO BUCKAROOS! I went to bed and woke up like it was a normal day, here and visible. It was fun while it lasted but now I have to go back to being a normal human being and living a normal life. That was what I would do in a day of invisibility!