Category: Cassells

1st week of ski instructing

I just finished my first week of ski instructing. I am a ski instructor at the kids camp/ski school in Belleayre mountain, New York. I pretty much babysat 4 year olds on the bunny hill for the first two days. But after that I got to to teach twelve year old and nine year old brothers how to ski for the first time ever. That was weird because I am only two years older than the twelve year old. The rest of the week I got kids down the green trails and even in some cases, blues. I feel that in this time  I have grown so much as a skier and a person. I am looking forward to this weekend where I will be teaching more (and getting paid 11 dollars an hour!).

Ski Instruction

For the first week of winter break I am going to be instructing kids on how to ski. I am going to be doing this at a mountain called Belleayre that I have been skiing at for 10 years. I am excited and scared to become an employee. I will get paid, but I will have a great responsibility, taking care of the kids. I probably wont even take them on the mountain, probably just fetch hot chocolate, and guide them down the bunny hill. But, in the end I am getting paid, while working up the ranks to a job that I will find fun, and hopefully worthwhile.

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A moment during this week when learning was fun and engaging was when I practiced and played a tournament with my CS:GO team. CS:GO is a competitive team shooter that has thriving professional e-sports teams. I had the opportunity to join a semi-professional team, and I accepted the offer. I am alongside four other fellow comrades in this endeavor. They are all in high-school, except for me. I am the worst player on the team, but I can hold my own. Even so, they value me as an important part of the team, so I do my best to make sure we win our matches. During matches and practices I learn so much from them, such as aiming tips, better decision making, higher quality communication, and special grenade lineups that allow us to gain the advantage on the enemy. I have elevated my skill level immensely since I joined, and I hope that we get promising results in the future.

Here is an article on e-sports if you would like more specifics about what it actually is, how it works, and how people are making money off of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/technology/esports-explosion-brings-opportunity-riches-for-video-gamers.html

My Eye Drawing

 

The of this piece is Olives. It is a photo realistic drawing of my eye. I created this piece of art by using a variety of different pencils and a blending stump. I used many different drawing techniques such as hatching and crosshatching. I learned many things while making this piece, such as when to hatch and when to crosshatch, and how the blending stump completely transforms your drawing. My favorite part of generating Olives is using the blending stump. It is really cool how it smooths out the line segments. If I could change something about it, it would be the highlight in the eye. It just didn’t come out the way I wanted it to. While making it I was surprised about how easy the whole process was. If I had seen the final product a year ago, I would have never had thought that I had the capability of making it. But I did, and I am proud of myself. This piece is called Olives because my name is Oliver, and olives are round like an eye.

Art Value Charts

In Art we worked on our value charts, which will help us with our technique for our realistic eye drawing. In this photo I am demonstrating a technique to create value. This technique is called cross hatching, which is when you cross line segments to create value which can be applied to pretty much anything in the drawing, such as highlights, shadows, and mid tones. If you want the value to be smooth, then you can smooth out the cross hatching with a blending stump, which will blend the line segments together.