Directions are a Necessity!

I hate it when my teachers at school tell the class to do a project, give us 5 or less rules to follow, and then tell us to go do it. They say that it's at our advantage because we can be as creative as we want, and we only have to follow those few rules. But the thing is... it's not at my advantage! I'm terrible with things like that. My art teacher from last quarter told us to find a landscape picture and then create a replica of it, using anything we want. She told us we could even make it on the computer- if we knew how. The only directions were that it had to fit on the certain size paper she gave us. I was in awe. I've never been good at that kind of stuff. It's like I need very specific directions to do a project well. When teachers tell me to come up with something, I end up having a very boring project and it does not meet my standards. I'm honestly not very creative... until it comes to writing. When I write, it's not too hard to come up with topics to write about. But most art projects don't have anything to do with writing, so that leaves me hanging. So next time you get assigned a project like that and get a good grade on it for being creative- consider yourself lucky! Because some of us- like me- cannot do that easily! Directions are a necessity for me!





My Landscape I picked out....





My drawings... boring!