Cranking out a few creations...

holy moly its been a month already? time flies! the last time I've written was march 1st, it is now april, and the months names isn't the only thing that has changed, many things have changed. All for the good tho, i realized I've been putting my moto into use these few months. the whole "live life to the fullest & no regrets" type of thing. as for the art world, i admit, well i shamefully admit that I've been slacking in that department, but i am determined to make it up. true.. i did do a few drawings for a few tattoos but I'm talking about the giant charcoal drawings thats my specialty... that or my portfolio that is collecting dust. i gotta step it up and crank out a few creations! as soon as i get that special item i ordered in the mail, guaranteed ill be drawing up a storm.

What i really wanted to write about was this tattoo i drew for a friend at work, Kiara aka Kiki Brown. (right now my favorite song just popped up and made me lose my chain of thought... Crying-RoyOrbison)
okay... now that thats outta the way.. but yes! kiara one day asked if i could design a tattoo rocketship for her, she was surprised the very next day when i had 6 drawn up for her. it surprised me too, didn't kno i would do that many. well i let her have her pick and she custom created the rocket of her choice. it shall be permanent on her skin as of today at 3! Keep in mind that I've only ever created 2 tattoos that have been tattooed on people, so this is kinda a big deal for me. the first tattoo i created was for my ex, and she still has it on her :) yay!

 Im sure my mind is all over the place right now. i just woke up, i partied last night, i have the music turned up all the way(its 1961 oldies if u were wondering), and I'm trying to write all this & edit photos. i guess I'm not writing as much due to the music and how i just want to sing ... right now Del Shannon "Runaway" just came on and i can't help but think of her, and if ur wondering I'm talking about Miss.V. Its horrible to think about and to kno how it all ended and the way it ended but i guess it made me stronger. if u have no clue what I'm talking about then good! spare urself the story of which i had to tell a hundred times.

Jumping Back In

Hey there stranger! its a new year, im kinda scared shitless. Needles to say this year is going to include many changes in my life. This is an art blog, yes? There fore i shall talk about art and leave the personal shtuff out. Well some, after all it is my blog anyways and its all about me. Well having that said im now officially 23, and im planning to move to california to start my career. Yes, you read correctly. Hope it doesn't fall through. Its the swift kick i need to make that career blossom. I have a lot riding on this, ive only told my parents, my brother, and a handful of friends. Now you know, see so dont say i didnt tell you. No worries, i have a plan, a magnificent plan.

Besides the move i have a website under construction, its going good so far, except that i have a virus on this here mac. Plan to get it fixed soon. With this year many events have taken place, people have come and gone, one particularly made such an impact that it threw me off of art for a while. Then i thought to myself, this is not me. New Year New Me! I always am a happy go lucky person there for i took a step back and fixed myself and took life by the horns. Since then ive been happy, well getting there little by little. I guess that explains my absence from this blog.

Yet over this time ive had many projects and plan to give all of them my best effort. Theres too many things i have to do and so little time. I love that im busy, makes the days go by effortlessly. Ill keep you posted, and a giant thankyou to those who have kept reading my blogs even when i didnt blog at all. I think i managed to go about a month of no blogs? Yet the numbers of views kept climbing. There for i shall blog every week at least and post my projects here. Some are very interesting, yet im not telling just yet.

Pandora, such a distraction..

As of right now, this absolute second im listening to KC & the sunshine band- Boogie shoes.. im on pandora! If your wondering who is kc and the sunshine band, then i suggest you get it together and go explore music.. go on! get!

Any who, seeing how thats out of the way, i didnt even blog last week! I haven't even been to the gym, geeze i feel really guilty about all that. As it seems i do remember mentioning a few things in the past, such as the sewing project i was so wrapped up into. It was to be a surprise for a friend of mine who resides in virginia. It was an owl by the way.. i stumbled across the photo one day while on the web and thought "hey! i can make that, well at least ill try" It turned into a success, altho my photos that i took of the owl pillow i made seem to have disappeared. Just my luck.. well at least i have a pic on my phone.

Took me a few hours to start and finish this sucker, but i managed to do it.  The important thing is that the recipient aka Jessica loved it. i thought it could have been so much better. The above pic is the photo i stumbled across and the pic below is the only one i have of it being made. 

I think its not too shabby, if i say so myself. That there was my first actually sewing project n i completed it all on my own. i even showed my mom n she asked what pattern i used, i was proud to say "i didnt use any pattern at all!" Perhaps i shall make another owl, or another random item. Im not sure what will come in the future, right now actually im kinda distracted by the song thats being sung ...its "City" by Sara Bareilles on Pandora. Yes pandora yet again. I guess thats the mini blog for now. Tommorow is christmas eve and i absolutely must wrap a few gifts. Have a merry christmas.

Its a step in the right direction...

        Shock, Astonishment, Taken Aback.. This is the way i felt as they said "....Coming in First Place/ Grand Prize Jaclyn Valdez!" In my mind i had no clue of what i would say or even do. I was in complete shock but some how my feet began to walk through the crowd to the microphone. I grabbed the mic and suddenly "Hi! Im Jaclyn Valdez... ". They wanted me to introduce myself as well as depict the inspiration of my art work. My grandmother is partially the reason i chose to have El Mariachi playing a trumpet. She is my inspiration, plain and simple. I was happy enough that my best friend Maria and my Grandmother showed. That right there made me as happy as i could be, what pushed it over the edge was my Dad being there. He never saw my art works displayed, i would tell him about it and he would always say "oh thats good". I was very disappointed when i had an art work in the San Antonio College Art Gallery and he didnt go view it. This i think, made up for it. He told me he was proud of me, Im sure that will forever be in my memories. Going into this Mariachi-Themed Art Exhibit, i never would have imagined that i would be walking away with first place. All i wanted to do was get my name out there and have a few people check out my art work. I had absolutely no idea that it would even sell! Geeze, tonight for sure is the night of surprises. 

Well it just goes to show you that if you believe in yourself and work as hard as you can you can achieve your dreams. I can honestly say that im proud of where i am. Never would have i thought that i would be here in this situation. Its a step in the right direction, a step to achieving my future. I hope to accomplish more. I just hope that next time i dont have to drink 2 glasses of wine in order to have the liquid courage to grab that mic. Although this is nothing compared to the 1,000+ audiance members that i had to talk to once, but thats another story, another blogg actually.

This would be the address of the blog describing this event. 

 http://mariachimusic.com/blog/2011/11/21

And this would be the web address of the Nonprofit Organization, Centro Cultural Aztlan!

http://centroculturalaztlan.50megs.com/