Landscape

This is a project that I was really excited to start. I thought that painting would be really fun and I would be great at it, but after we worked on the iPads, I couldn't seem to grasp the whole painting thing. I re-did the tree multiple times, as you can see, and I still wasn't happy with the final product. I'm also not very proud of the snow on the mountains. I can't say that I didn't try though! I spent a lot of time re-doing everything to try to make it look right. If I could re-do the whole project, I would. I'm pretty unhappy with the landscape I made, but I"m not giving up on painting!

Clay Tile

I liked this project a lot! It was really fun working with clay, even though it could be frustrating at times. I thought it was really cool that we could make 3D tiles! I was really sad when we came back from winter break and I found out that my tile exploded while firing! But I put a couple pieces back together and tried to fix it as much as possible. There's still a giant whole right in the front. I really like the sky colors and the spots on the giraffe. I'm not as happy with the face, especially the nose. Overall, I wish it came out without breaking, but I'm happy with my final piece. I worked really hard on it!

Game Board

This project was pretty fun, and I had a good time creating it. We started by playing the games, and then we used pictures of them to draw a picture in two-point perspective. It was hard at points to make the drawing look realistic. After completing our drawing, we started to paint it with watercolors. I decided to use more paint, and I made the colors more solid and vibrant. When the paint was dry, we took out colored pencils and used them to add shadows and more texture. I think that is a pretty cool idea, and it added a lot to my game pieces. Overall, I'm happy with the way my game board turned out.

3D Anamorphosis

This project was really fun, but also really hard. We found pictures that we wanted to use to make 3D and went on photo shop  change the perspective of them. We used the transform tool to make the top of the picture wider than the bottom. We used a grid to scale the picture to the piece of paper we used. It was really hard to draw the picture using a grid. We had to create shadows to make the 3D illusion more realistic. We used colored pencils to color the pictures. I like how mine turned out, though it doesn't appear to be 3D, I think it's a good picture regardless.

Stencils

This is my stencil, the Mockingjay from The Hunger Games. I enjoyed this project very much; it was really fun carving the drawing out of the paper with an xacto knife and creating the stencil. We used photo shop to change the threshold and create positive and negative space. Doing this created contrast and made the picture black and white. Using the spray paint was a new experience, but I enjoyed it. I used pages from a book as a backround because the Mockingjay is from a book that I love. I love the colors I chose to spray paint with because the Mockingjay pin that the character in the book has is golden. Although this project was sometimes frustrating, I really enjoyed doing it.

Light Drawings

This project was really cool and fun. We set cameras up and made the capture time longer, so that it would be able to capture all the light that we showed. We used a stencil for the Statue of Liberty, but for everything else, I just used my phone. The first picture was an attempt at a flower...haha. The second is a heart. The third is HEF, my initials. the forth and fifth are stars and the sixth is the statue of liberty stencil. I had a lot of fun doing this project. My group was really fun to work with. We all had a good time trying to think of objects to portray, and seeing how they turned out.

Animal Prints

This project is really cool because we carved sketches onto linoleum and we made prints out of them. It's important to use textures while sketching so we can use the sketches as good reference while we're carving. When we printed, it was really cool to see our pieces in different colors and seeing all the textures. It was pretty difficult to carve into a rubbery sheet, but it was really fun. Although it took a lot of time, I enjoyed making important details. I'm happy with my work and love how it turned out!