3/30/10 Response

Interesting: It was interesting to get to look at the murals and talk about what people's ideas were when designing their murals.
Learned: How to use illustrator, this was helpful because I've been wanting to learn a little about illustrator to give me some sort of base for next year.
Ideas: I want to try to use illustrator for other projects now to keep learning new skill with it.

3/23/10 Response

Interesting- It was interesting to use photoshop to crop our images so that they could fit as a tessellation. I like getting more practice with photoshop.
Learned-How to use some more tools in photoshop, like the stamp tool or how to change the canvas size. We also learned how to tessellate an image and then create the 3d image using the website.
Ideas- The tessellation project has made me think more about using tissue paper in other projects I like the way it looks, it was just kind of a pain to work with, with the glue because it becomes so thin and wet. I would like to try to incorporate tissue paper into another project.

3/9/10 Response

Interesting: Looking at the color slide show and the examples of the patterns created like the project were working on now.

Learned: How to make a shape that fits together using shapes cut out and placed together, I forget the name of it.

Ideas: I got the idea to use tissue paper more in 2D work because it looks really nice on our puzzle like pieces, I'd like to use this in other works for other classes if I can incorporate it in.

Even though the demos are sometimes boring I think a demo would have been helpful for today's class because I was confused on how to start and work on the project, and I think many others were confused on how to tackle that project.

3/2/09 Response

Something that interested me was scanning my drawing into photoshop from their Gokey showed me how to manipulate the colors so that I did not have to change the colors of my image using color pencils as I had originally done.

I learned about the best way to place images and artist statements on presentation boards. I also learned more about photoshop

I would like to try to create another image using photoshop to copy and paste images together in their realistic colors. I saw many of my fellow classmates do this and I think it made their images look very professional.

Mural Artist Statement

My idea for our Mural was to have images of cars on the wall across from parking spaces. I was hoping this would make people do a double take and for a second think the parking lot goes on. I made the images of cars, cars from the 1950's hoping this would cross their mind quickly, "Why is there a car such an old car parked in front of me" kind of giving them a surreal feeling, making them feel lost in time for a second. I really wanted to incorporate bright colors into my mural, but I do not know if I did this successful, that is the one part of my mural I am unsure of.