Flowers

 While me and my friend were outside spray painting with some yellow and blue cans, we found these beautiful flowers.  They are a perfect example of genetic variation because they are of course  completely natural.  

Spray Paint Portrait

 Best project yet!

New project, we had to create a stencil and a frame, put them together, and create a portrait.  I decided to make my stencil first because everyone else was being noisey and building a frame.  It took a couple days to complete but once I did, I moved outside with my friend to build our frames.  This was done quickly and easily. Once both the frame and stencil were complete I painted the background of by portrait yellow.

It took a day to dry by once the backgrounds were done I was eager to get outside and spray paint.  Of course all I spray painted was my portrait I most definitly did not spray paint anything else.  First I layed out my stencil and preped the black paint to spray.  In other words a shook a can vigorously for five minutes.

 Once the can was ready, I began to paint.

 Next was the blue which didn't require much vigorouse shaking.  It went down easily and quickly withouth any problems.  After blue came yellow which unfortuanetly did not go so smoothly.  I sprayed to close to the portrait and then took up the stencil much to soon.  The yellow pain spilled out onto the painting where it was not wanted.

 I decided to redo the blue so that I could redo the yellow and make it how I wanted.  It took quite a while to dry but the effort was worth it, my portrait was done.

By far this has been the most enjoyable project.  Partly because we got to go outside and partly because I got to spray paint.  Next time I will definitly make less mistakes with spray pain because now I have gathered expierience.  I'm looking forward to more fun projects.

Self Portrait

 In class I spent an entire week learning about self portraits and the proportions of a Homo Sapiens face/head.  Our project was to draw a self portrait, using a mirror to see your face. On first day of  self portraits I added the basic outline of my face.  On the second day of self portraits I added detail and some shading.  On the third day of self portraits I filled in most of the shading on my face. (I have yet to complete this and will add a photo of the finished product.  The only reason it's not done is that I was away for a day.)

The most surprising thing about this project was the different proportions of the face and how different they are from what you would think.  Overeall I'm very pleased with what I've done and hope the final product is even better.  Next time though, I think I would work a litte more on the shading and highlights, especially in the eyes.