Adobe

  Today was the first day I had ever worked with Adobe Illustrator.  The assignment was to make flowers and mess around with the settings.  Honestly, not my favourite project in the world.  It was boring and well, not fun.  I'm not much of a computer art person, I guess I prefer to use my hands in a physical reality. 

Clay

 The Clay project was a big learning expierence since I have never really made a serious attempt at doing much sculpting with clay.  Our first step in the project was to work with a clay ap on our ipads and create prototypes of what we might want to make out of clay.  However I kind of got bored with the ap and only did a couple.

My final project was a couple of clay eyeballs, wonderful I know.  They turned out just as creepy as I had hoped.  I really liked this project and wouldn't mind working with clay again.  I can't wait to see what they look like when they cook.  There is nothing I would change in this project, it was lots of fun!

Zentangle

My Zentangle project was probably one of the longest projects we've done in art yet.  As usual I worked with my friend Julia in a very cooperative fashion.  We started off with the paper zentangle as shown in the very top picture.  After that we moved to the concrete outside and we painted Julia's shadow with the so called "mud".  This mud in reality is clay and I really wish we had painted with actual mud because it would have been more fun.  I still don't understand why we didn't use mud but I figure curiosity kills the cat.

Next we moved to the courtyard where me and Julia decided to continue with our shadow idea except this time we painted Julia's body.  We spent the first few days filling in the outline of Julia's body.  Then, after hearing we had to fill in the entire wall, we went into turbo drive and got almost our entire wall painted in one day.  Of course we had some help from a few friends along the way, but in the end the final product was worth the effort.  

If I ever do this project again then there would be nothing I would change, except for maybe the boiling heat that pounded us.  It was a fun project and I would be happy to do it again with no more zentangles.  Although I enjoyed the clay paint, I didn't really enjoy the zentangles.  To be honest the zentangles kind of bored me and I don't think I'll be jumping for joy if we do them again. 

Forced Perspective

I had a bit of trouble creating my forced perspective.  For starters I worked by myself so it limited what I was able to do, but it was better than working with people I didn't know well.  My main trouble was that I didn't have many ideas and just wanted to take pictures of birds. The picture you see is one of the very last pictures I took and maybe it's not the best but I like it.  Although I can already see ways to improve on this photograph and on my ideas.  If I could have moved my hand a little bit in the photo I think it would look better.  It was an interesting project but I'm still not sure if I would want to do it again. I would much rather be taking photos of nature.