For my capstone, I focused on trying to remove allergy triggers from the school and air quality improvement. I made a “PSA” to try and inform the students of how to prevent certain things from happening in the school.

I talked about asthma and how people who don’t even have asthma, can have asthma-like responses to certain things. I also briefly discussed heat strokes and heat exhaustion, plants that can be useful, and simple forms of modern technology that can maintain their usefulness as well.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13CvnrLczLauXcvvUip86J5q320F1Sl_ZONxVk_YdYSk/edit?usp=sharing

For my quarter 4 benchmark, I chose to model my work after the artist I chose, Kathleen Dunphy. She does a lot of watercolor paintings and I based my artwork off of hers. I created a vase with flowers and a dark background with a dark blue table/floor. The flowers were pink, magenta, and burgundy. I used simple, different sized paintbrushes and a canvas that is used for watercolor. The larger ones were used for filling in a lot of space quickly while the smaller ones were used for getting in tiny spaces a little more precisely. I drew a sketch first and then I started working with trying to mix up a desirable green that would work for the stems. I then used red and a mix of a few other colors to get a pink, magenta, and burgundy. I don’t specifically remember the colors I used for it but I got a good outcome. I don’t normally use watercolor for my artwork, and I wanted to try something new and I liked the outcome. Something I wish I did differently was me using the paint like it was acrylic rather than watercolor. With watercolor paint, you can use the already dried paint on the paper to get a certain effect or use more color. I’m used to acrylic paint because I’ve been using it since last year and I like deep colors rather than semi transparent colors so I wasn’t used to using it.

For my final Q4 project, I chose image editing. I did photoshop in the past so I knew a little bit of what I was doing during the project. I like dogs a lot but I don’t have any, and my favorite dogs are german shepherds and golden retrievers which are adorable as puppies. I wanted to create a mix of those dogs so I fused both of them together, putting the german shepherd’s head on the golden retriever’s body.

I used the lasso to cut off the german shepherds head and placed it on the golden retrievers body. I also used the cloning tool to put certain spots of color from the original german shepherd on the golden retriever and it made the dog look more realistic. I also used this tool for the grass so it wouldn’t look like the dogs head was just sitting there. I used the blur tool to blend the fur. The sponge tool helped to yellow certain areas so it could be a better match for the fur of the golden retriever. The smudge tool was even better than the blur tool even at a lower opacity. It helped to blend the fur faster and more efficiently for me.

My art piece is a butterfly gracefully sitting on a flower. I tried to make the color scheme more on the dark side but I did end up using some brighter colors to color the flower. I used a dark blue and purple to paint the butterfly, while I used pink, red, green, and yellow for the flower. My art has some similarities to my previous work because this is a limited palette painting. The painting was supposed to come out elegant but once I added paint, it kind of ruined any good parts about it all.

In my last limited palette painting I tried to paint over any stray marks with white and it helped to bring out the other colors of the painting which I did in this one. I also feel like I had hard lines to paint over and I wanted everything to come out straight and smooth but I didn’t.

I used big, wide, brushes to fill in large gaps of space, and I used thin, smaller brushes for outlining and filling in smaller lines of space. I had to dump my water out a lot because if I didn’t, the water would’ve mixed in with my new colors and I didn’t want that.

Something I would definitely change about this is the object I would paint on. I feel like with what I used, it was too textured and I feel like I should’ve just used wood so it would look cleaner and better. I also think overall, I should just stop doing limited palette in general and do something that doesn’t require good painting skills.

I based my artwork off the show Rick and Morty so I can create a depiction of it from my point of view. I enjoy watching the show and it would make sense for me to draw about something I dislike. I used a small amount of materials: colored pencils to color in most of my picture, white tempera paint to lighten up any colors I felt were too dark, and a black sharpie to even out the darkness of the lines. I think this work has no correlation to my previous work except for the fact that t includes things that I like. In freshman year, I has drawn a picture of a room full of food and I love food so much. I had never drawn pictures of people before so that was something new for me. I think this picture was a fail. I don’t like the outcome of it very much because it could’ve been way better. I wish the pencil lines hadn’t smeared because it would look way cleaner I also wish I got a thinner sharpie because those lines are very thick and I wish I took more time trying to get straighter lines. Rick’s eye is a little bit off, he looks like a Simpson. His hand is very small and so is his portal gun. My inspiration comes from the love of this show and the animators and artist(s) who drew him. I’m most proud of the attempt. I want to say I tried my best but if I did, it would have been better. I would spend less time on paint testing and more time on actually drawing and painting because I didn’t even end up using any other paint color but white.

I created a generic color wheel. My overall vision for this work didn’t come out the way I expected it to come out though. It looks okay but I feel like I could have done so much better. I also think the people who look at it will just see it as another color wheel and not something extraordinary. I thought it would’ve looked nice if I made the primary colors have triangles in it.

Social-Media survival guide

If you search my name, you will not see me online. I will be telling you about how to survive on social media. I do not appear on social media, therefore people cannot perceive me. I guess you can say, I do not exist. I don’t post anything online. I don’t recommend sharing things online. There are pros and cons to sharing online.

Pros:

• You might have something funny and want to send it to someone else

• You could go viral (in a good way)

Cons:

• What you send might be inappropriate and they could send it to a million different people and then everyone could see it. You would be publically humiliated.

• It could go viral (in a bad way)

Lack of control, permanence, and immediacy have a large impact on our lives. Permanence is in the internet. Once you post something, anyone could repost immediately, then you have no control over what goes on with the post. That’s the lack of control on the internet and the immediacy.

My thoughts on social media background checks for people applying to jobs is it doesn’t make sense to me. Whatever you do in your free time has nothing to do with what you do at work. So what you can smell like cigarettes or weed. Or you’re an  alcoholic, you do those things on you’re free time to have fun or release stress. If you didn’t want to lose your job for doing drugs or drinking, you wouldn’t apply for the job in the first place.

I am now going to discuss “free speech”. What is this free speech that you ask? It’s the right to speak your mind and give you 2 cents on what you think about whatever. But people take this “free speech” thing too far. When people start degrading people for how they look or how they speak is when it’s not free speech. After that point it’s just the hatred of yourself and not the person you make feel bad. Certain things are protected like telling someone to kill themselves. That gives you serious consequences. You go to jail and will get charged for I think murder. But things like racism, segregation, and bullying doesn’t seem to get noticed.

An internet troll is someone who just hates on people for no reason at all. They start arguments under videos on youtube just to watch the arguments for their enjoyment. They say things like under random videos saying “Justin Bieber is soooo much better than 1D.” I just sit and wonder why… just why would you do something like that. Their goals are to see people angry and argue so they can be happy because deep down inside, they are dead. We can stop trolling by not feeding into their nonsense. They are like a fire-if you stop feeding them air, they’ll die.

Let’s switch gears for a moment. Many people post anonymously online. Let’s see the Pros and Cons of this situation:

Pros:

• You post things that you don't think twice about, start a debate but they don't really know who you are so they can’t really kill you for saying something that you weren't thinking about the consequences for.

• People don’t really know who you are, or what you look like, they just like your content.

Cons:

• You might post something really inspirational, people like it, you could get famous, but nobody knows who you are so you can’t take the credit. Soon everyone else will be posting or saying it so much where it doesn’t matter.

Tips to survive social media:

• Don’t post any inappropriate content that could ruin your future

• Don’t be an internet troll

• Be positive