Skittling!

So this is by far my favorite project yet. We took pictures of ourselves, made them skittle colors and pixely, and now we're making our faces out of skittles! It's really time-consuming, but I think it's really fun anyway. At first I couldn't tell that it was my face, but once I saw a picture of it I started to recognize it! It takes a lot of skittles though. I've already gone through a bag and I'm almost done with one of those huge 54-ounce bags! But I get to eat most of the green ones since I'm not using that color, so it's okay.

The only bad part about this project is sometimes the skittles get unglued or they don't line up exactly the way you want them to.

Overall, I really like this project and how it's turning out!

Shadow Art

These are pictures of our shadow art of "space." We had to put together different things so that their shadows looked like real things.The rocket in the center was made using some sort of plastic object, a spoon, and to cups taped to the bottom. We also cut out a picture of fire and taped it to the bottom of the rocket, but it's difficult to see with the background. The moon in the top right corner was made from a tinfoil pie plate with holes cut out of it. The stars we just cut out of paper. Overall I thought this project was pretty successful. We were going to add a shooting star at the top made with a curly string of paper to represent its path and cut a star out of paper, but it didn't look too good and its shadow was very difficult to see.

Value Portraits

We finished up doing these value portraits yesterday. At first I didn't know how well this was going to turn out, but I think I did a lot better than I thought I was going to do. If I was to do this project over again, I wouldn't have traced over the shapes so hard. I made that mistake at the beginning and when I tried erasing, the lines were still visible. The most difficult part of this project was at the very beginning when we first started. We were supposed to find all the shapes of different shadings/highlights and trace over them on tracing paper. I learned a couple things from this project: drawing a mouth is not an easy task, and drawings of people look a lot more realistic when there is value and shading involved.

Masking Tape Mural

This is a picture of our masking tape mural. The theme was "the future." The symbols represent graduation, a career, marriage, getting a house, and earning money. I contributed to this mural by making the briefcase and helping out with the graduation cap and the lines on one of the hills. I think the most difficult part of this project was figuring out what symbols to use. Overall, I thought this project was fun and it turned out really well!