9-29-09

I guess I've made a lot of cool things throughout my life. One thing that I really enjoy doing is painting and drawing. One thing that I did that was especially cool was to help paint a huge mural of different scenes in Michigan. I did this last year in my Drawing/Painting class, and it took a really long time. I and two other students painted the Makinac Bridge, which turned out really beautiful. We also painted a map of MI and painted little icons of famous things that each city was famous for. For example, we painted cherries where Traverse City was. We also painted the Detroit Tigers baseball team where Detroit was. We put a lot of hard work and time into this giant mural. After we were done, the mural was hung in the middle school where all of the kids could see it and look at how beautiful MI really is. That was really only time that I actually enjoyed doing a group project in my life! We all just seemed to have similar ideas of what we wanted to paint, so it worked out very well.
I guess that this project could very well be related to writing. From what I have read in the past and in this class, art can tell a story. If you were to study our mural, you would see that we were trying to express how awesome the state of Michigan can be. Even with our horrible economy, you can still look at our painting and realize that we are trying to tell you to slow down, stop and really look at where you live. Look past the hardships and see that MI has many things to offer you. I think that behind every piece of art, you can find an explaination for it. Even abstract art. I think that anyone can look at this painting and form and opinion about it. Art is form of expressions, just as writing is.
Before I took this class, I used to think writing was just words on a paper. Now, after being in this class for a while, I realize that I have formed a very broad opionion about what writing can be classified as. Writing doesn't have to be words, it can be art or music or many other things. I think that writing is anything that tells a story or anything that tries to get you to realize something or think about something. A lot of writing can be in the form of entertainment. I think writing can be anything that has a meaning to it, that sends you a message of some sort. An artist will draw a picture of what he/she wants you to see and think about. A musician will play a song that will make you feel a certain way because that is what he/she wants to express to you.