Shakespeare Play

Just to keep in track,
I finished the play, 'Romeo and Juliet'.

A love story as I expected but it was not as disappointing as I thought it will be! It was actually quiet interesting. Just that it was so not realistic. A 14 years old girl falling in love with a 16 years old boy and she died for him. A 14 years old! That is a year older than me! I will never do that! But I still liked it! (: 

My Daily Drawings

Now it is my crocodile's eye. (:

My Daily Drawing

This is the diary of the cat's eye! (: Enjoy!

Alright that was for my cat's eye! 

In the next post I will show you my crocodile's eyes. 

My Daily Drawings

Now I got attracted to eyes. Any kind of eyes!

These two are my first two! Hope you like it! (:

This is a dragon's eye!

And this is a hawk's eye! Fierce one though! (:

I will show you two eyes which I have taken a picture every time I drew! It is almost like a diary! 

See you in the next post! (: 

Daily Drawing

Now I have hoped to drawing buildings. Famous ones such as The Eiffel Tower, or the Opera House in Australia.

This is The Eiffel Tower in Paris.

And this is the Opera House in Sydney.

And lastly, this is Franc Arc de Triomphe!

My Daily Drawings

I have drawn a lot more daily drawings and I will love to share it with you.
Now my concept changed and I started sketching my drawings with colour pencils.
It gives amazing effects and I realised it helps me get more creative.
And the most important, it makes me draw really freely!

I drew two roses which are apparently the same but just with different colours and different pressure. But there was so much difference! 

Now this is a tree I drew. You will recognise that I emphasised the tree trunk by drawing with a straight line and with a different tone of colour. I didn't know that straight lines makes the object clearer when there are a lot of curly lines in the background. I loved this experiment/drawing.

I also started having passion over plants! I found out that they are also amazing topics to draw or sketch about. Now this is the first rose I tried. Not so attractive but I wanted to share it for you to compare with my second try which is way better. 

Now this is my second rose which looks quiet attractive. I aded more strength and better colours. And indeed it became better. Practice makes perfect! 

Now these are more plants which I sketched it with a different colour. I could see that different colours made different atmosphere to the drawing. Violet, pink makes the drawing a bit romantic and also a bit like a royal drawing. Orange and red makes the drawing strong and passionate. Blue and green makes the drawing cool but also cold. Perfect for a summer drawing! 

As you can see, I am experimenting as varied range as I can with colours. I hope I will find more interesting facts later on. If I do, I will write right back in this blog and hopefully you will get my ideas! There probably will be more coloured drawings since now I am amazed by its effects! 

Shakespeare Plays

Now just to keep you in track, I had finished 'Othello' and now is planning to do 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Till now, my favourite play from Shakespeare is 'Much Ado About Nothing'. But I also loved 'Othello'.
And now I am looking forward to reading 'Romeo and Juliet'!. It is a very famous play and I have known this before I knew Shakespeare himself! I hope it won't disappoint me. Some say it is amazing and some say it is way too unrealistic to have fun with. But in any other way, I am really looking forward to reading it!
I will write right away when I am done reading it and will share my opinions with you.
See you around!

-Hee Won Chang (Anne)

My water colour art pieces

These are some of my water coloured art pieces that I would love to share with you!
The first one is the draft and the second one is all ready to be presented.
I have two art pieces and the second one is not completed but in the process of being completed!

Now this art work was made by my imagination. It is suppose to be a rainforest. I hope it looks like one. I realised after I finished, that unplanned art pieces do look unplanned. I started drawing the middle tree and ended up drawing three more trees. My plan was to draw some rainforest animals but it didn't work out. But I did my upmost best and I hope you like it! 

Now this is my second art piece. It is all planned before getting coloured. This is one of the scenes that you can see at a countryside where there are birds singing and big clean lakes reflecting the high mountains. The front tree without leaves is untouched by me because I thought it stood out better. 

Now this is the end look. It looks quiet good and I am pleased with the result. I hope you are too!

Now this is another water coloured art work that I am still working on. Yes, this is also planned and now I am working on the shades of the trees. And the front row yellow leaved shrub was another challenge for me. I had to draw all those small berries that you cannot draw with all details. I used those thick brushes but which are really flexible and added a lot of water in those brushes. I first did it with a think brush and found out that those cannot hold water at all. And after this process which was really difficult, I added some black and sprayed it all over the shrub just making sure that the berries don't fly all over my painting. It worked well and I am satisfied with it. It was a new challenge for me and I loved it. I still have to finish it. When I finish it, I will definitely put that up too and put my reflection on it! 

My Water colored art pieces

I have been painting more art pieces and this time it is a dog! I love dogs and that is why I started trying to paint a dog.

I still have to continue. I will post another picture when it gets finished!

My Daily drawings

I also drew a shampoo bottle. I just wanted to draw something really easy for the basic structure and added a design! It was quiet fun.

I also have listened to a talk on TED and it had this awesome idea of new design idea! Jeensop Lee was the talker and he showed the audience this idea of designing products using all our 5 senses. I found out that designers only uses sight and a bit of touch to make/design a product. But if they also use hearing, smelling, and tasting, then I bet the product will be more interesting!

My Daily Drawings

I have been doing more daily drawings.
I drew a dog again, since I really enjoyed it last time! :)
I also drew some house plans but just for fun as usual.

Oh and one more. I drew a woman. 

So that's it for now. 

My daily drawings

I started getting interested in comics. They have very unique figures.
I tried drawing one of the most famous cartoons, snoopy!

Book Report

This is the second book report for 'The Old man and the Sea'.
This time I wrote it in a diary form. It is from Manolin's point of view.

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Wednesday evening

Dear Diary,

                      Today I woke up really early. I woke up early because I had to make sure the Old man went out to the sea safely. I hope he catches the biggest fish that can be found in this ocean. It is already the 85^th day he is starving. I went back to my house and helped my mother with the breakfast. She seemed pleased with my attitude. I usually am not able to wake up this early to help my mother with the breakfast.

 I was still thinking about the old man when I went to the fisherman, whom I was getting taught. He is quite nice but he is not friendly at all. He is stiff and doesn’t talk the whole trip. Fishermen usually don’t open their mouth when fishing, but I always did with the Old man. Helping him with what he caught and he helping me of what I caught. We used to make jokes and sing songs to get over with the tiredness, but not anymore. I hope the Old man is doing fine. I have been praying for him to catch the finest fish anyone can ever catch. I think I was very distracted today in my fishing class. The fisherman kept on grumbling at me about my lack of sincere.  I don’t know why I am so into thinking about the Old man. He should be fine. He would be complimenting how the ocean is so beautiful and wide today, he will bless the waves for splashing against his boat so musically. The Old man loves the ocean no matter if it never provided fish to him or did. He will be still smiling widely when he comes back to the shore with zero fish. He would tell me stories of the ocean today. I shouldn’t worry about the Old man, he should be fine.

 This is what exactly I was thinking for the whole day. But I am still worried. The Old man didn’t come to shore at afternoon. Some fishermen came back to shore and they were drinking beer and resting safe on land. What hold the Old man from coming back to shore with his typical smile? If he came back then, then we could drank beer together talking like last time. I am really worried about him. I hope he didn’t get lost in the middle of the ocean and not knowing where to go. What if he doesn’t have enough strength to pull a fish up? Maybe the fish is too big, fat and stubborn for him to pull it up? I hope he will come back to shore fast with loads and loads of fishes on his boat. All the fish that he wasn’t able to seek for 85 days!

 It is already 7 in the evening. The Old man usually comes back to shore at 6:30. Something should be wrong. I am going to be eating dinner in 15 minutes. I really want to see the Old man coming to shore and smiling at me before I go eat my dinner. My parent thinks I am really stubborn child. And I think it is true. I know that just waiting here worrying won’t make anything different and make the Old man come to the shore safe. But I just keep on doing it. I just have to or I won’t be able to stand it. I have been worrying and worrying but I still can’t see even a tip of Old man’s boat at the far end of the sea. The sun has been setting and it is now meeting with the sea and the sea is turning orange. What a beautiful scene, I hope I could see this with the Old man right now. But I still can’t see him. Maybe something went really wrong with the Old man. I need to find it out someway. I have got 5 minutes till my dinner, I must to see him. He has to come to the shore some how. He just has to.

 I waited for as long as I can but it looks like he won’t come back in a few seconds. I am terribly worried. I don’t want the Old man to just disappear like this, now my only hope is to wait for him tomorrow in the morning. Maybe I can wake up really early and help my mother with the breakfast first. She said that would be really appreciated.  But I should go now. The Old man must be in his shack tomorrow morning.

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I think I will be writing more of 'The Old man and the Sea' book reports.

Book Report

I read a book called 'The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton. It was very fun to read this book. So I wrote a book report!

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The Outsiders

By S.E. Hinton

Dear Diary,

           I got a new taste of books these days. Until last time I loved books which was about utopia. But now I think I enjoy reading the very opposite kind of books. So today I am going to introduce you this interesting and a touching book called ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton.

 The characters in this book are very different from me. And if I say different, it means really the very opposite corner. They are all teenagers and young adults. They live in the corners of the city. They all don’t have proper family. Some don’t have a dad or mom. Some don’t have any parents and only have brothers and sisters. Some have parents who abuse them. There are two gangs in this side of the city. One is the greasers and one is the socs. These two gangs are enemies and they always want to make a fight. Well later on, this brings a big tragedy to the greasers.

 Ponyboy lives with his brothers. He loves Sodapop, who is one of his brothers. But he hates Darry. Well Ponyboy always thought Darry hated him back. But later on he finds out he was totally wrong. In the gang, Ponyboy was unusually close with Johny who had parents who abuses him. These two escapes their houses and ran away. They got a lot closer when they escaped from their homes. They later become a hero in the countryside because they helped the little kids to escape from the burning church.

 The way that Johny and Ponyboy felt when they were helping the little kids is really interesting. They never felt worried or scared. I can know that Ponyboy and Johny felt the sacrifice and the happiness they didn’t cried because they got burnt or did they blame the kids. They just felt joy, which is different from other people in their gang. I can see that Ponyboy and Johny is different than other people. I can see it from everywhere. They are young and terrified with lots of things, but they are not like Dally who goes all wrong and live a wrong life.

 The most amazing thing about this author is that Hinton can take the reader to places where they never dreamt that they would ever go there. I never even thought I would feel the things that the outsiders feel. And I never thought I would understand how the outsiders feel about the world. But S.E. Hinton took me to this place and explained me carefully how they felt about the world. It was amazing how I understand someone totally different from me. It was just fantastic. Now I have a chance to look at the world with a different point of view.

Anne Heewon Chang

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I really liked the book. But I think it was made to make a movie. Has so many actions in it. But I really liked it!

Shakespeare's Play

Now I am reading 'Much Ado about Nothing' and I love it. It is hilarious!
Well if you ask me who is my favorite character till now, I will say Beatrice and Benedick. I love their character and how they always quarrel. I especially love Beatrice's sharp tongue. And these two relationship is very interesting.

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I have written a letter to Shylock to make sure I still remember what Merchant of Venice was like. Because I love that play.

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Dear Shylock,

                       Hello Shylock. I really was interested in your attitude towards everyone. I dare to explain you my opinion about you. I understand that almost everyone didn’t care or understood you in Venice. Yes, it is because you are Jewish and Venice appreciates Christians. I feel bad about this situation and I am also here to tell you that you are not always wrong.

 I still have to accept that you were not right in every single situation as you think. Sometimes you were wrong. But I understand this because humans make mistakes. It was very disapproving when you cursed Antonio just because he invited you to his dinner party. I know it is not very exciting to go to a Christian’s house for a dinner. But it was a bit rude of you. You could have explained to Antonio without showing your private feelings about Antonio. That could have hurt Antonio’s feelings. And there are another deeds you did which was wrong. Getting upset and awful when your daughter got all your jewels and treasure with her. This could not have been wrong and so inhuman if you were upset because your daughter just escaped from your house. You were upset because your daughter also has your jewels and your treasure. Not because ‘she’ escaped. I was quite shock when you behaved like that.

 But I also think you did something good. Sometimes I felt sorry about how other venetians behaved in front of you. Just because you are a Jew.  When Antonio was visiting your house because he needed money for his friend Basanio, he didn’t acted civilized at all. He kept on cursing you and spitting on you. It was appropriate for you to defend yourself. I do not blame you for cursing back. It is not that Christians are more great and well than Jews. Also when you met lady Portia in the court. It is not that what Portia did was wrong. What you told and behaved in front of Portia is not appropriate. You could have been more civilized. Portia said the right thing, just that she was trying to protect a Christian. And that is not the right thing to do. You were right and true. You were going to have what you deserve and what you promised to have. You were being very fair and rightful. I understand that Basanio and Portia were being to over protective to Antonio just because he was a Christian. I really felt bad for you at that part. That was the most unfair part in the play.

 I think you could have behaved a lot better when you got your result in the court. You should have stood up, with manners and could have gone. You actually wanted what you wrote in the bond. A flesh from Antonio’s bond, not his blood nor his death. You can’t just sit there on the floor of the court and cry until you are finished. I found that a bit disturbing and not right. You can’t do anything because it all makes sense and the judge is right. I can’t say anything against it because it is true and fair.

 Overall, I think you were more disapproving then being appreciated. You could have behaved more civilized and learnt then just shouting and showing rage of anger. I think I could quite understand how Christian thinks Jews are rough and don’t have manners. Because you never actually behaved totally civilized. Christians were more civilized than how you were. I know that it is very unfair for you because you are staying in Venice, which is full of Christian people. So not everything is going to be fair. But I hoped you could have acted better than Christian people.

Sincerely, 

Anne, Heewon Chang

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I hope you like it!