Shaded Flowers

For our quarter 3 art project, we had a list of options we could chose from to create something. Personally, after the one I did last quarter I didn’t particularly like any of the other choices. But, the most interesting to create to me was the Value, Line and Texture Drawing. Speaking in a perspective of someone who doesn’t have much art experience or a lot of skill, I think this was the most simplest to create. You can come up with anything while doing a project like this because putting value, line and texture into one drawing is something easy to do. It's a collaborative process which creates something unexpected and beautiful in the end. My overall vision for this project was to be as simple as possible but to also bring a pop to it as well. I think brings a good vibe because of everything incorporated into it.

The process I used for this project isn’t complicated nor did I try to make it something that I knew it wasn’t going to be. I involved basic things; colored pencil and marker. But, to make sure there was texture within the drawing and to make it have value, I had to shade differently to make it pop. By shading differently, using my colors effectively and making my lines bold, they all work together to make a more eye catching piece. This artwork is quite different than my past projects because I usually try to go above for my grade. Now, I am trying to make my pieces subtle and that makes them not so harsh. I feel like using simplicity as a key factor in creating something makes your art more presentable. Trying new techniques always makes my work look different, but I feel like that really shows in this piece.

Not much came together to make this artwork. I never usually think too much about my projects. But, I do think that it shows that not much is needed to create something beautiful. I also feel as though using your imagination is a key point in art as well. Techniques are a big point in making your project the way you want it to look. And as an art student, I take past mistakes and other techniques into consideration while creating something new. Nothing major comes out of anything I create. The only way my art work impacts me is making me feel confident in myself when I get compliments or if I think it looks good. Art doesn’t have a direct definition in how it is suppose to look so I feel like whatever you do is going to make its own statement; that is what I took out of this quarters project.

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CR Math Coding Project

Video Link: https://youtu.be/rTG8tzXjeiA 
Website: http://crmath.site44.com/index.html

My project was basically computer science and I worked with Rymir. I chose to use a website we made in middle school and improve it. So far we didn’t get too much done but we started. We will be working on this until next year and we have a lot to do. My part is to change code. I am changing some of the code to make things easier by using functions and creating separate stylesheets to have more control over every little element. We are keeping the same format of the website but we want to make it more visually appealing. I used an app named Notepad++ to code and dropbox to update the website since all of the files are saved into dropbox. I am learning how to do things that I couldn’t figure out in middle school such as creating better backgrounds and making more broad functions so I don’t have to rewrite the same code multiple times. We encountered a lot of failures and completely changed our goal halfway through. I think this fill successfully be finished by the time we need it to be done. We are collecting information from other people to find out what they may like to see in a website and we are listing all of the changes we need to make. To make these changes we go into Notepad ++ and find the code of the element we want to change. For example if we have text that reads “Hello” with yellow text it would look like this…
<a style="color: yellow;">Hello</a>.
If I wanted to change the color of the text to blue to match the background and make it say “Hello World” I would change the code to look like this…
 <a style="color: blue;">Hello World</a>.
All we are doing is taking the basic outline we have and adding to or changing the existing elements by changing the code.