When I started this school year, I was not looking forward to art. I felt like I wasn’t good at it. I realized pretty quickly that art isn’t a skill you are born with but something that is developed and grown over time. When I started accepting this fact, I made art that I was actually proud of. When my teacher told me she was hanging up a painting of Yosemite National Park that I made, I was surprised. I spent a long time revising and repainting the whole thing. Once I got it to a point where I really liked it, I was ecstatic that other people were going be able to see it. For once, I was proud to share my art. I made something that I was proud of and to me that shows that I excelled at what I was doing in that class. Another time that I felt this way was when we were using a program called Gimp. Gimp is similar to PhotoShop. Our assignment was to use a picture of ourselves and change it to be abstract so that it could go on a playing card. When I made mine, I was very proud of it. It was another instance of excelling at learning something to be able to use it to make a product.