Q3 Art Journal

For the third quarter, instead of following the curriculum Ms. Hull designed, I wanted to paint one of the ceiling tiles in her room.  I decided to paint the Flying Spaghetti Monster since I'm a devout Pastafarian and I think His noodly presence would be a welcome addition to the art room.  Most art projects are supposed to take a week, but I'm still not done this one.  I'm very proud of it so far, though.  I found the picture "Touched by His Noodly Appendage" and used Photoshop to crop out everything but the FSM Himself.  Then I added a grid to the picture so that it was divided into 24 squares, or twelve columns and twelve rows.  I divided the ceiling tile the same way, so that I could more easily make the painting well-proportioned.  After a long time sketching, I realized I had miscounted the number of rows in the painting, so my sketch was too long.  However, since I need to paint over the sketch anyway, I can amend it once the background is done.  I've never done anything like this before, so I don't know how it will turn out.  I'm excited, though.  I'm really enjoying working on this.  So far I have the whole drawing sketched out and even with the measurement mistake I think it looks quite good.  When I finish I'm going to send a picture of it to the official website of Pastafarianism.

Pictures coming soon!