Clay

I made a clay bowl, but there is no picture of it.

What I learned from the clay project is that it takes a lot more patience than I actually have. I prefer the art projects that stay the way you put them the first time, and then make corrections when you finish. Clay, however, moves around while you're working on it, moves after you've left the room, moves while you let it dry... It is just one hot mess.

Dot Project

I did my dot project but I did not have a picture on the Dropbox account.

I did like the dot project, but it definitely took a lot of concentration and focus. My design was very simple, I will admit, but it did still take awhile to complete.

Batik

Well, I convinced Mr. Puffpaff to do the batik project. I did mine, it looked really cool, but I decided to be the guinea pig and wash mine. That did not work- the dye was not set enough.

OOPS.

I plan on coming in after I get out to re-do mine.

Watercolor

For the watercolor project, I decided to put my own spin on it. Originally I was going to do a landscape, but I just could not seem to get it the way I wanted it. Instead I did some watercolor blending and decided to do something with it afterwards. Since it was the day before Winter Break started, I was in the wintery mood, and decided to cut snowflakes out of the watercolored paper. The glitter on the snowflakes started as an accident, but I definitely think some of them turned out really well. I wish my cursive was better, though, because I feel like it would have made the entire project look better if I had better handwriting. All in all, I think it's a good message to send, and that the watercolored snowflakes fit really well.

Choose Your Genre Project

For this project, I did end up going along the lines of Roy Lichtenstein with the comic-y dot coloring. I feel like this could turn out a lot better if I take another go at it, mostly because I wasn't really sure how to do the dotting. The colors are a tad off in this picture, but I do really like it in real life. A lot of what I learned doing this was that sometimes your plans don't always work out and you need to be able to adapt to the situation. I really love the argyle-style background, but if I ever do it again, it will definitely be on a smaller scale.

Stamp Project

So, for my stamp project I decided to do two, because the bow stamp really didn't take that much effort. I was really excited to do the stamps because I never got to my sophomore year, and then screwy scheduling couldn't fit me into Art my junior year.

There isn't really much to learning how to stamp, although I did learn that sometimes a little really DOES go far, and it takes patience to get the stamp to fully transfer. I also learned how to mix colors to get the color that I wanted.