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My project was Video Editing where you basically record something of your choosing and edit it. So i choose to do a game play for the game Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection. A success i had while doing this project was recording it because it was very simple to do. A failure i had was actually trying to play it due to the fact I only play my game on the weekends. Also another failure was uploading it to youtube because for some reason it would never work right. I overcame both failures, 1. by bringing my game system to school I could record here as well as at home. 2. Doing a live broadcast of my game play and recording the audio on my phone. Something I learned about myself while completing this was project was that I am somewhat good at doing commentary and that I might be able to do this for real.

My 3D Modeling project for quarter 3 featured the program Sketchup and I used it to model tanks. Why tanks? Probably because I like tanks. Why is that? Well, tanks are amazing feats of engineering that hold a special place in my heart. The roaring engines, the strength, designs, and their history always amaze me. Hence I decided to model my own tank. It was inspired by real world examples of the Soviet T-72 and American M551 Sheridan, but everything was made entirely by me.

The process was a fairly long one as I had about 4 prototypes that I was never quite satisfied with. It also doesn’t help that much progress on the final copy was lost due to someone’s blunder and that I made a second variant of the final design. But there was a reason for the latter, I assure you.

Now what did I learn from this project? I learned that engineers have it really hard! The fact that all of this is modeled on a far greater quality than what I invested many hours into is incredible. Other than that I mainly learned how to model better than I did prior to this project and had much fun doing so. Turns out I really do enjoy the modeling, even if I’m not great at it.

There are quite a few things I would do differently if I were to redo this project, and it mainly consists of the turret section and scaling of the tank. While in the end I was satisfied enough, it wasn’t too practical as a realistic design due to the over-angling of the turret and while it would result in extreme protection; it’d be extremely uncomfortable for the crew members. That’s why I made a variant of the tank with a different turret but still ran into the same problem, albeit not nearly as prominent. Quite a few things would be changed, starting from the overall size of the chassis that would realistically be able to support a heavier turret. Sorry but I won’t be explaining the details of balancing out sloping of tanks as it’d make for a whole essay. Keeping it short; sloping maximizes the thickness and effective protection of the vehicle but limits room and becomes harder to operate in. This must be taken into better account next time I design another tank.

Overall I’d mark the design as a success, although close to failing. The mistakes here would result in the design never going past the prototype stage, even if it were to miraculously be accepted into the prototyping stage as far back as the 1960’s

I have created this work to show how beautiful a simple drawing can be with a little texture and shading added to it. I made a simple island with water and trees because that was something I knew how to draw so I just perfected it. I think my work communicates that you can see a lot of beauty in color. I used different colors to make certain parts of the drawing pop out like the tree. My current work relates to my previous because all my work has a lot of color in it that represents my colorful personality. My work is like contemporary art because many artists such as Claude Lorrain who specializes in making paintings similar to mine. First, I thought of a drawing to draw, then I drew it, then I colored. It was very simple. My work reflects the world we live in by painting a picture of serene calmness of an island. People want to relax and go to an island similar to mine. I learned how to make different textures by using different shading and how hard I pressed my pencil by making it darker or lighter.

By Tania Crowell

I decided to create a flower and a tree because I wanted to create sculpture of the beautiful Roman goddess Diana.  She is the goddess of nature and the hunt.  For this project I had to create a sculpture that was 3 dimensional and that required me doing craten checkpoints. I was trying to create a scene in which Diana the Roman goddess of nature and the hunt is in a mini world of her.I believe that the viewers that see my  work of Diana will see artwork that shows  naturalistic . I believe that also they will notice the fact that I really captured her in her natural state of being . I think that my viewers will like the fact that i incorporated a roman  mythological goddess. I makes the art have more meaning. The art is very self expressed a roman woman goddess bring and taking life for the world. When understanding my art they will feel like i'm teaching them and giving them a better sense of knowledge.

I don't think I have exactly achieved my  creation of this benchmark. I believe that I could have made a mistake of using a box to hold the  life and world of Diana -  I believe it looks very dark. That was not my intention so I don't really believe that I did a good job on making it really nice and colorful and forestry. I believe that this relates to work that I have previously worked on. In 9th grade I took Physics, we were working on making a something creative that used the little light bulbs that used 4 batteries, and writing a paper on how the circulation of one 4 batteries light up one little light bulb. I decided for that project I was going to make a solar system -  using the light bulbs as little solar systems. I think that it relates to my 9th grade project because it is kind of the same idea of making a litte life or world.

For this project I started by looking at sculptures that I could get inspired by.  That day I was kind of in the mood for making something relating to goddesses so later I decided to illustrate a tiny world of Diana the Roman goddess of nature. After I found what I wanted to make as a sculpture, I drew it out. So I illustrated  it. I drew a woman in all gold surrounded by the forest. I knew that if I wanted to make something like this I needed to get materials. I talked to my mom about going to some art supply store. She took me to Michael's Art Supply store so I could make this project. I got plants and grass because I knew that was the supplies that I needed more. Then I got this wood doll  to represent my goddess Diana. Then I was looking  at these cool boxes that are used to put memories for people, I decided to use it as a world for the goddess Diana. Then when I went to class I put it all together I put the the wood doll in bowl of  got gold sparkles and dipped her in it so that she would be all golden . Then I cradled her little world by using the grass and cutting it to the exact size to the box and then I started cutting the flowers. Then I got a background of the clouds so the place looked realistic. After that I made the weapons that greek goddess diana holes in the statue that is in the art museum. I also got wood sticks to make trees for the forest, I got the sticks and spray paint and made the trees brown and used wire to attach them all together.  That's how I made the sculpture and the mini world of Diana. The sources that really  inspired me to make this world of Diana was her story, what she was and her part in the Roman mythology world. I believe that my project does resemble somewhat of the  images that I saw online of her, for example is in this link.

1.https://www.google.com/search?q=Diana+greek+goddess&safe=active&rlz=1CADEAA_enUS709US709&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBo-HG4OXSAhUC4iYKHVFiAjoQ_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=630#safe=active&tbm=isch&q=a+woman+standing+in+the+forest+with+arrow&*&imgrc=KkYpqISvXS7bbM: 2.https://docs.google.com/a/slabeeber.org/document/d/1w2MvjLQQk73OZun3MAlZtA8is8xp41Qqun8kGPySULA/edit?usp=sharing

I don't believe that it reflects the world you live in now because we have a lot of free land that is natural but life and it has evolved has changed drastically  we have cities that have made us humans not really care for earth or the forest.  The forest is something that I have always connected to because I got to the wood with my mom every weekend with our friend Celia and her dogs. So I would say that I really appreciate the woods and Dina which orchestrates my whole project. I think that my art can  influence and make an impact on the world because it shows the beauty of the Diana, and her history of the Roman mythology world..  She tells a good  story on how she has a big part in the world by controlling the life of animals and life itself.  Diana has the  power to talk to and control animals. That's why I believe that Diana story is a good to know about , like my art work.  So for making a three dimensional project I had to make something 3D so I made a great goddess and instead of being normal and painting her I decided to make her gold with using gold sparkles, that I got at the art supply store. It’s impacted my whole project because she ended up standing out really well in my forest . Some new technique that I learned and experimented with while doing this project was thing out of the box. I had to use materials that i wasn't as familiar as I am usual.  So wall I was making Diana I would usually would draw it and make it out clay but I decided for this project I would use a wood doll and make her heir out of clay and then hot glow gun the her war materials. I used grass as well to make this project to make a scenery for my tree, so yeah that's why I feel like this was a fun learning experience.

I’ve created this masterpiece because I feel ad though it has a great meaning to society. It also brings a food for thought type of message .  While working on this project I realized I have achieved my goal in creating a visual representation. For the message that I have been trying to convey to society. When you see a trash can there are multiple things that come to mind. In an artist's perspective it could mean throwing away inner struggles. Or keeping things inside or to talk about that bad things about something or someone. Although that’s not what I have intended for the viewer to think about. Making this 3d sculpture I have achieved my goal in making an actual representation of society. This project has no correlation to my previous work or to any other piece of art that i’ve made. I first made a drawing of what I wanted my 3d sculpture to look like then i made  a rough draft of my work with clay. Then I made a Final draft more improved with more detail and it’s colored. The whole base of making this piece of art was to represent the world I live in. Trash, complete and utter trash. The actual sculpture is empty and has no real trash in it. You can simply imagine the metaphorical cans and wrappers that represent what’s wrong with society. A lot of our society is bad but there is always a little bit of grey in the middle. My grandfather was shot and killed in cold blood and no murderer was found to be given a trial. He received no justice. My art gives people something to think about. Think about themselves, think about the way society is structured, think about their own happiness. Having a certain technique can bring out a different feeling in your art. I added sharp detail and edges to create a deeper feeling for my 3d model. I learned how to make a functional 3d sculpture.

I created my art piece because I wanted to try to put my feelings into my art.  That is why I decided to draw a heart and make it to look a little scattered. My overall vision was  to understand the making of the limited palette painting. What I would like to communicate to the viewers is that there is some confusion in my heart. I feel like I achieved a few things while creating this work. I was able to show people how I feel. Compared to my previous work I honestly feel like my artwork was a lot better this time around because I put more time into it. If I had to pick an artist that my work fits in with i would say that it fits in with Sam Francis because he did a little bit of splatter painting.

As I started my work I first looked up how to draw a heart with spirals in it. After that I drew it out in my art notebook and transferred it to the piece of wood. I then made the colors I wanted to use and put it on the heart that was in my notebook. After that I painted the heart and used the splatter technique. My work shows that I am lost and all over the place but even with that I am still moving on. When I started to talk to my mom again I didn’t know how to feel I felt lost with no direction. I feel like my work can show many young adults that they can do anything even if they aren’t good at it. When making the painting the technique was important I strategically chose not to have the spirals in a specific place, I had them all over the place to show that I was feeling scattered. I was excited to learn how to do the splatter paint. I watched a lot of YouTube videos so that I could see what other people did while using the splatter paint technique.

I created this piece of work for my girlfriend. Her favorite color is blue so I figured since I did the rest of my work for people special to me I should make one for her too. She loves it. My work actually came out way better than I suspected it to. I did it a little sloppy but a messy artist is a dedicated one! I wanted to have that galaxy effect at first but I felt like that was a little to complicated for me to do in such a short amount of time so I had just decided to go with a wavy kind of flowy background.
I think it says “water” or “ocean”. It’s such a pretty blue it might even make you a little nostalgic. Looking at it for a long period of time will allow you to see how the paint flows into each other, you may just be able to identify the technique I used to achieve that flow. I think I achieved another level of experience when working with these paints and techniques. It’s very different from what I’ve done in the past which is what my goal was, to do something different.

There's a painting by David Munroe called “fade Into You”
. His painting is similar to mine when it comes to the style of having two or more colors fading into one another without lines.

First I chose 3 colors; blue, white and black. I used those colors to create a mixing guide that would allow me to make several colors out of the 3. After doing that I was able to save the colors I made. I initially chose three other colors that was made from the mixing guide, I don't want to spoil them so I won't say which ones but when starting my work I took heed to the kind of brushes that i decided to use and started from there. Using a lighter color mix at the top and a more darker one at the bottom.
It doesn’t have that kind of impact on my life. It’s just something that was fun to do, you know? I can say that I’ve created a painting like that and am able to show it to my friends and family. I personally don’t believe that it will have any kind of impact or could for that matter.

For the painting that I’ve created you need to have a medium sized brush and have a straight hand. The curves are very noticeable so you must try your best to keep your lines straight. You don't want you brush to be too wet because then your paint will have been too watery and wet and would require you to apply more than one coat to have your painting bold with the color of your choice. For this painting i chose to go horizontally rather than vertical so it will look like it would go on forever if it could. Like I have always said, I compromise every time I do a new piece. I come up with an idea of how i want it to look and then I shoot.
Overall as you can see the work I produce is a reflection of my thought process when it comes to doing new creative things. I'm a risk taker, i feel as though when I think too hard it doesn't come out the way I picture it in my head.

My project goal was just to show that the NFL comissioner Roger Goodell and NBA commissioner Adam Silverare not liked just as Donald Trump is. My process was just to go through the internet find the pictures i needed then i took the face of Roger Goodell and put it on Adam Silver then put Trump's hair on to of that. I ended up find out how to face swap, cut & switch images and how to re size. Well if i could do this over i would make a more meaningful image probably about racial injustice or Trumps injustice against different culture and ethnicities. The the only thing Pixlar(the tool) did was it kept deleting my image after i was done with it. But I now think if i ever wanted to make picture art for something like a YouTube chanel, a project, or anything of that form.

I created this artwork because I wanted to work with materials that I never worked with before. My overall vision for my work was to artwork an artwork that was different and unique. I think my artwork communicates a positive and happy feeling. I think I achieved a positive feeling through this creation of this work. My current work relates to a previous artwork that I did in middle school with paint. My art work fits in with still life contemporary art. My artwork is very similar to a painting by Marc Dalessio named Two Roses. During the process of creating this artwork, the process of creating this went very fast. With already knowing what kind of design I wanted to do. Carving on the linoleum palate only took two days. I struggle with making a print with figuring out the perfect amount of paint to use. My inspiration for my image came from https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2434/4048317339_24c1be827d.jpg . My artwork reflects my own life because I live an happy and positive lifestyle. My artwork can influence and make an impact on the world because it creates an happy feeling. During this process the technique that was most important for creating my artwork was the way I held the carving tool. I used three different carving tools which were all used for different things. The smaller carving tools were used to make finer lines throughout my artwork. A new technique that I learned with this process is that you do not need to use a lot of pressure to curve out the linoleum palate.

Overall, I enjoyed making this artwork. I just wish the process didn't go as fast as it did. I had fun using materials that I never worked with before. I hope that I am able to work with carving tools again.