For this project we had to look up our animal and a habitat for it (or a background).  Then we drew the animal and background in our journal. Then we picked out a rectangle as big as the piece of linoleum. After that, we had to put tracing paper on top of it.  We flipped it over and traced it again.  Then we had to take a piece of the linoleum and trace the design on there.  We had a few tools in which to carve out the linoleum so we could use it as our "stamp". There was a very large tool, a thin tool, and a V shaped tool just to name a few of them.  We had to be very careful because you cant put the linoleum back once you had carved it out. We took a bench hook and put a dime sized dollop of ink on it.  We spread it out and rolled it onto the stamper we had so carefully crafted.  We then positioned it above the center of the page where we had earlier put tick marks to make alignment easier.  we flipped it over and rubbed on it to push it down so the ink would go on the page.  I then pulled it off carefully and tada! All done :D Over all I think I did well on this project.  The background makes the Humming Bird and Butterfly stand out, and the colors were good.  I admit that I could have cleaned up my lines on the butterfly some though.

Frog Tongue

    In class today our class went on Photoshop and made frog tongues.  It was a pretty easy thing to do as long as you knew the steps to doing it.  I liked doing this project.  Mainly because it was interesting and a very creative idea. 

Angry Pancakes

      I thought this was a cool thing to do on photoshop.  It isn't somethingI would think of doing, so that added to the intresting nature of this project.  It was kinda fun to do because I had never done anything like it before.

Spray Paint

This was a really fun project, especially because we got to work with new things we never had used before.  A lesson I learned is that forms of art can be expressed in many different ways, and some take more preparation than others.  What we did is we first took a photo of ourselves, which had to be expressive.  Next, we went onto photo shop and broke it down into three colors.  We printed it then took a picture of it.  we projected it onto poster board and traced out each color.  Then we cut it out.  We had to do this on two sheets for the pink and the yellow.  We painted cardboard with paint (for the blue) then sprayed on the colors.  This turned out really good in my opinion.

Contour Shoe Drawing

    Drawing with the contour style helps out with drawing because you have to think about your line placement and where you will connect all the lines.  I improved at drawing contours because I never really drew with this style before.

iPad Art

          The smudge tool on the Layers Pro app is supposed to act like when your blending together oil pastels on paper, like we did in class.   The similarities of this app to the old fashion way with oil pastels are that they both blend together colors pretty well and they are both helpful when you are drawing things such as the 3D forms we did in class, or anything with value.  Some difference can be noticed in how smoothly you can blend things together on the iPad.  I accomplished learning more about digital art.  I learned that blending on the iPad can be pretty fun, and to be enjoyed by many people.  Technology is very useful and important in Art because it is everywhere.  You can usually get your hands on computer.  You can do alot of amazing stuff on technology, especially art.

Cartoon Skeleton Project

I chose the character Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic because I like the show and I thought it would be pretty interesting to do, and to see how the skeleton might look inside a character I see often. I based the skeleton off of a real horse skeleton from a picture on Google.  I had to make up the wings, which weren't very hard, but I did have to take notice where the bone ended and the feathers started. Obviously feathers don't have bones in them. The head had to be exaggerated to fit her head being so big.  I put the ear bone in for an added visual effect, and to fill up more space in the outline. The neck had to be widened also.  I learned that if you know the basic skeleton of the cartoon animal you are doing, you can easily modify it to fit the disproportional parts of that cartoon.  The hardest part, I think, was to draw the ribs and backbone.  It was hard, because human skeletons are just straight up and down, while horses/ponies have skeletons which are sideways, and the arms and legs attach differently than a human's would.  The picture really helped, though.  I felt I did a pretty good job on this project as a whole.
-Carmel