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I was asked to make a print about sodium. This is the 11th element on the periodic table. When I first started I had to think of things that sodium is used for. The biggest thing that I could find was in salt. From my first design to my final design I had to change a few things. One thing I had to change was to move the salt over and to make the letters bigger.

 I believe that my final project turned out pretty good. If I were to do it again, I would have carved less of it away. This is because it makes it difficult to tell the difference between the numbers and the random lines.

 

Element: Cesium

Uses: It is in used in atomic clocks, and thermometers

I came up with the idea for my print by researching the history behind Cesium, which was it being named after the sky blue color it has in the spectrum.

I had first draw an idea, and then I traced that onto a linoleum block (Backwards), which I then carved out. After that, I swabbed some paint on it and printed a few pictures.

I think this project was a good learning experience. I was taught something I never knew and I had fun with the painting part.

 

If I was to do this project again, I would use a different element and experiment with all the things the element is used in. So I could have more than just one print.

 

Element: Cesium

Uses: It is in used in atomic clocks, and thermometers

I came up with the idea for my print by researching the history behind Cesium, which was it being named after the sky blue color it has in the spectrum.

I had first draw an idea, and then I traced that onto a linoleum block (Backwards), which I then carved out. After that, I swabbed some paint on it and printed a few pictures.

I think this project was a good learning experience. I was taught something I never knew and I had fun with the painting part.

 

If I was to do this project again, I would use a different element and experiment with all the things the element is used in. So I could have more than just one print.

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The art project's for this quarter weren't as bad as the previous ones. I feel that I was a little bit more engaged in these pieces of art. I took my time, and made sure that each one was completed and looked the way I wanted them to. However, I feel that there were a few art pieces that I wish I would have spent more time on.  I enjoyed doing the sculpture, because I took my time to make these flowers look like actual flowers, and I was learning a new skill while doing so. I enjoyed copying a piece of art by an artist, because I think I really impressed myself with how diligent I was with making my drawing look like the original drawing.  I wasn't really fond of doing the bike drawings, because there were many parts of the bike, that should be included in the drawing, but were difficult to draw. If I was to improve on anything this quarter, I would perfect my pieces of art. Sometimes I feel that what I consider "complete", may not exactly be completed. 

Sculpture

Duct Tape Flowers


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Copy a piece of art work by a famous artist

Original By: Alex Katz



My Drawing:

Draw the Bike three times (Sorry for bad quality pics)

1. all line

2. just shading

3. just negative space

Draw from observation OUTSIDE

I choose to use corn/bomb design to represent my element because it is uses in both crops, and bombs. I also added flames because my elements ability to burst into flames when it is exposed to air.
Based on its properties the backgrounds range from a sunny farm land to a fire in the dead of night. I am very happy with my plates, mostly negative appearance. However in the future I want to use a less labor intensive process.  

Natalie Sanchez 
Aquí está el link a mi proyecto final del cuarto final. 

La experiencia de la guerra Civil en España era una de horror. Todo el mundo vivía con miedo todos los días. Franco gobernaba a España usando la intimidación, entonces todos  ciudadanos tenían miedo de vivir por miedo de desplacer a Franco o a sus soldados. Sabían que Franco era un dictador muy violento, y que iba a castigar a la gente que se oponían a él. Mi proyecto es una serie de poemas que explican la vida horrible durante  la guerra civil en la perspectiva de dos niños (Ofelia de "El Laberinto de Fauno" y Moncho de "La lengua de la mariposa"). Quería enseñar que Franco usaba la intimidación para controlar los ciudadanos de España. Los niños expresa que viven en terror en la España de Franco, entonces hacen todo lo que están supuesta hacer, para no caer en manos de Franco o de los soldados. 

El proceso de escribir estos poemas no fue difícil para mi porque escribía dos poemas por clase de español. Me dio tiempo de terminar el proyecto porque la Srta. G nos dio tres días en su clase para terminar nuestros proyectos. Usé las películas y las escenas de violencia y de terrorismo de parte de Franco oh sus soldados para escribir mis poemas. incorporé una escena de las películas en cada uno de mis poemas. Al fin, me gustó el proyecto. Me ayudó entender mejor cuan difícil era vivir durante la guerra civil en España. Me gustó la libertad que tenía de escribir lo que quería y de escoger en cual perspectiva escribía mis poemas. Me gustó el detalle que usé en mis poemas. cambiaría la presentación de mis poemas. me gustaría hacerlos más atractivos físicamente. 

Reflection 

My project is a story book, but it was put in a video format. 

I like the whole story i feel as if it was really good, and also explanatory. 

I think i should've added some type of music something calming and like i guess childish sounding 

    When it comes to art I enjoy letting my art express my feelings and personal interests. When I am drawing or building or painting I like to show who I am through my work. I try hard to make things look good. I want to show myself that I am good at what I do through my own eyes. If I think I did something well, then it doesn’t matter what someone else thinks.

 

    When I work I usually just try to go with the flow. I try hard to fix my mistakes. When I start my work I have a general picture of what I want to make so I base all of my decisions on the original picture and manipulate it until it comes out in a way that I like. I use whatever materials I have that I feel will work to express that particular picture.  My technique constantly changes each time I draw something or build something or do any kind of art. My themes are always based off of things that I like or enjoy. Like swordplay, medieval based mythology and music that I enjoy. I draw images of the things I like and draw things that inspire me.

Famous artist drawing:

 Tim Burton:

One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6PfJZSqh0&feature=related

To produce the sound of the guitar, the player had to pluck at each string.

The way he changed the note was plucking at different parts of certain strings and holding certain strings down towards the top of the guitar. The guitar is shaped regularly. The strings are straight down from the top of the guitar to the middle. The big part is shaped as like…a circle with its two sides squished in. The creation and change of the sound makes me think of tension and the length of each string having something to do with the pitch. I think that as you tune the guitar, which is pulling the strings tighter or loosening them, you affect the damping. Since it would affect the damping, the sound would either travel slower or faster depending on the tension of the string.

 

Two

In a guitar, the sound is produced when you pluck the string of course. The thing about it is that when you hold your finger in different places on the string of the guitar, the sounds changes. The reason this is so is because the wavelengths change, giving you a lower sound the longer the wavelength, and a higher sound the shorter the wavelength, the frequency of the wave is also affected by the wavelength. When the wavelength is short, the frequency is high and when the wavelength is long, the frequency is low. In order to change the wavelength you must hold your finger at certain parts of the guitar string, making the string either shorter or longer when you pluck it with your other finger. The sound is loud because of the vibration. In the guitar there is a hole in the middle and a box kind of thing behind it. The vibration bounces off of that back piece of the guitar and out through the hole.

To change the pitch of my instrument, I will do the same. I will hold my fingers down at a specific spot on the string and pluck it. The physical characteristics that are important in this instrument are the length of the string and the tension of the string.

I will be using wood and copper strings. I chose to use these two things because they are also used in guitars, harps, and other string instruments and they all get good sounds. To play it, I will pluck the strings at certain parts. My plan to construct this instrument is to build it just like how a harp looks….or as close as I can get to one.

 

 

 

Sound is produced by my instrument by the wave traveling though the bottle and dispersing before finally interacting with the water. You would change the pitch either by changing the shape of the bottle or the distance between the water and the point it is being stricken from. I will be using water bottles filled with precise amounts of water set to 5 musical keys. It will be played by striking the top of the bottle and making the sound reverberate though out the bottle. My plans for construction it are simply acquire water bottles and fill them with set amount of water. This instrument is rather simple and I have no outstanding questions about it.

​Similar to my instrument: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvquq1kg-lQ

The water bottle xylophone is played by a person striking bottles filled with different amounts of water there. The bottles are filled to specific amounts so that the waves change distance they have to travel to crash in the water. You change the notes by striking a different bottle. The note is formed when the striking of the object against the bottle shoots into the container and takes a set amount of time to disrupt the water in the bottle producing a different note. This makes me think that sound is changed and produce by sound waves interacting with a medium of different distances and tensions in order to create the unique sound. I think you can conclude that with a longer distance for the wave to travel the deeper the sound will be because the more spread out the wave will be at the point of impact.

Name: Einsteinium, Origin: After Albert Einstein

Symbol: Es

Atomic Number of Protons/ Electrons: 99, Mass: (252.0) amu

Valence: It goes up by 2 each shell. 

Discovery: Bec, 1952 by Albert Ghiorso. Universirty of California, Berkely, Argronne, and Los Almos.

Uses:

Classification: Rare Earth

Something Interesting: This was man made.

1) My element is Rubidium.

2) As seen in the picture below, my element can be used for atomic clocks, use in medical procedures. This element is more of a side element and can be highly reactive to other elements. Rubidium is also used as the purple firework.


3) For my print, the idea of an atomic clock seems liked an easy concept so I stuck with it. It was either an atomic clock or fireworks. 


4) For my final print, I basically stuck with my atomic clock idea and made it pretty. 


5) I think that my final print is good in my standards, because I am not very good artistically. But I believe that it could be better.

6) If I were to do this project again, I would draw better and maybe do a different design.
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