JadeAndSapphireArts

Last summer, I went on a camping trip with my family, including my 6 year old nephew, and my 5 year old niece. For a day, I let them borrow my $600 camera, I taught them the basics, told them if they dropped it their bums are mine and let them take photos of whatever they please. Looking back on the photos will always be overwhelmingly refreshing for me, as a person and as an artist. It's astonishing, the beauty and simplicity of a child's perceptive, teaches the serious adult soul a lesson, not just in art but life. The subjects they chose to capture are apart of everyone's daily lives but they managed to evoke grace and originality to them all and I am so proud of them. 
So, this is A Child's Art:




            

I encourage people to let children free with artistic tools and see what they come up with, the results are more powerful then you imagine. I really hope you are as pleased and moved as I am, admiring these photos.

Hey guys!
It's been so long since I even logged onto dA, and I'm really sorry!
I'm not dead or seriously ill, I started a new job, and I've just been really busy with that and other things in my life, and I've been too tired most nights to get taught up with everyone and everything on dA.
But I'm off for 5 days straight and I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things during my time off.
So, hello! How are you guys? I hope your all doing so well!

So, besides getting caught up with you guys, I wanted to talk about this little thing called art.
I've been thinking about the history of art and the importance of it, and it blows my mind to think of the broadness of the term.
First off, the word art can be used to describe many things, paintings, photography, architecture, landscaping, sculpting, all these things are considered "art".
It's especially amazing to think of how far we've come and how far we've taken art, what started as paint made of blood on cave walls, is now a huge part of all people's lives. 
But more than anything, I love that art has almost no barriers, unlike most other forms of communication. Words have the language barrier and actions have the cultural barrier, but art is something everybody can understand if done the right way. I think that's why it's so easy to form a community like dA, because it's based around art and whether you live in the US or China, you can still understand and bond with people over the concepts of your artwork.

Anyway, I really hope you guys aren't too mad at me for semi-abandoning dA, but I'm back now and plan to be fully active for a little while at least.
You guys know I love you so much,
and I wish you the best of days,
goodnight! <3

Hey guys!
I know it's been so so long and first off, I want to say I'm really sorry for my absence and my inactivity.
For the last 3 months, I've just been dealing with some things and my feelings, and I really didn't want to burden anyone with my problems and so I sort of just cut off communication for a while. I don't really feel comfortable just yet with talking about the things I was dealing with and frankly, I don't think any of it matters now, because I'm feeling better and I'm ready to move along in my life. 

So, we have some catching up to do. As some of you may know, I graduated high school in June, and it was stressful, busy, but completely surreal. It was surreal in two ways, one obviously being it's a new chapter in my life and the second being, my best friend who was a Japanese exchange student, was leaving. She has been to my school for all of high school and she was been my friend for 3 years, which doesn't seem like a long time but we really connected and grew so close in the amount of time we had together.
But anyway, I passed my exams, I received the honor cord at graduation (which was a total shock to me), I got bursaries and scholarships, I got lots of "Congrats" and "Good Work", I got cards and money and all of it was completely awkward and foreign to me since I do not take attention well. The whole graduation experience was kind of anxiety-inducing to me, because for all of my life, I have been very happily blending into the background, trying very hard not to get recognized or shine any sort of attention solely onto me. Graduating in front of hundreds of people literally threw me onto a stage in which all attention from the time my name was called to when I sat back down was on me and my achievements, and it was awkward. In fact, I was so good at blending in during high school, some people actually said to me, "I can't believe you got the honor cord, I didn't know you were that smart." which I don't honestly know to this day whether or not to accept as a compliment or be completely offended, ahaha. There was only a very little amount of people in school that knew I actually took advanced classes, which was the way I wanted to keep it, because there is a very negative aspect to being semi-smart and that is, your peers thinking that your the teacher. For example, a common class of chemistry would consist of the teacher doing her lecture, the teacher giving us work to do and the whole class (which was about only 10 of us) would eventually migrate to surround my desk and I would be flooded with questions, "how do you do this?", "what the first step? ... what the second step?", "Am I doing this right?, "Can you help me?", "Can you explain this?" and by the time I got any of my own work done, the bell would ring. And although I actually enjoyed helping people and explaining things, it felt awkward to me for the same reason graduation felt awkward, and that is, I'm not used to people knowing my academic abilities. So anyway, I got through it relatively unscathed, tears have been shed for my Japanese friend, but laughter and comfort and good memories soon followed so it was a relatively good experience. 
As for university, I am taking a gap year, I'm trying to find a job in a small town with small opportunities and I'd be working for the next year to save up. I still don't know what I want to take in university, but I'm thinking maybe a double major in biology and chemistry, which provides not only a good overlap but will provide me with many job opportunities. I'm semi-seriously thinking of becoming some sort of doctor, with my fascination with the human body and my love of helping others, it seems like the best fit I can think of right now, and frankly, it sounds very exciting. 
Anyway, I will be uploading and writing regularly from now on, and I really want to know what has been going on in your life as well, please please tell me what you guys have been up to and
I hope you guys have a great day,
I love ya! <3