My element is aluminum. My element is used for many thing some of these things are wiring, mirrors, aluminum foil, and containers. I made several sketches to see which of my ideas would look best and then chose. First I looked up common uses for aluminum then I made my sketches, after that I traced it onto tracing paper then I put that onto the the linoleum and carved it out after I did that I made prints with it and finally I matted the prints on paper. The project was fun and interesting. I would try and make sure that i did my ripping of my prints slower so that I wouldn't have to redo one of them.
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)
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.
The element that was given to me was Copper. Copper is a red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29. It's used in cellphones, homes computers, jewelries, coinage, etc. Coppers are also a good conductive of heat and electricity.
This project was the same as "negative space drawing." Negative space is a space around a subject of an mage. This part of the drawing is usually neglected, or filled with scribbles. Negative space involves with concentrating on shading in the background and leaving the object white.
As for this art Printmaking project, I chose to draw a coin with with an atomic number, mass and boiling point of the element of copper and placed it inside and around the coin area. Coinage is made out of copper and I thought it would be fairly easy to use this as my printmaking project. There were many mistakes going on when carving the block. I accidentally carved the block way too deep which makes it seems rusty. The atomic numbers, mass numbers, and boiling point numbers did not really showed up. Only the the symbol (Cu) of the element did. When it comes to carving, I only carved the inside of the numbers, the coin, and leave the negative space as it is on the block.
I would have used other bright colors to bring out the drawing, but since copper has the color silver in it's product, I just wanted the color of the background to go with the element. There have been a lot of mistakes, but if I could go back to redo it, I would definitely try to be careful with the cravings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where to even begin…I hope you have learned a lot and actually took the time to do more research on the topic of Israel. I really take for granted all the stuff I know about Gilad Shalit and different situations happening in Israel. I have finally got videos from Youtube of Gilad Shalit. (Posted at the end of the this blog) I really just wanted to end this blog by saying that I really hope that you don’t just believe what you hear. Most news stations, like CNN say its all Israel’s fault and make up other stuff, but it is always good to do research and really see from both sides and form your own opinion.
I would love to share with you important dates to remember and commemorate.
Michael Levin died August 1st 2006. Every August 1st please take the time to remember who he was, even ONE minute of silence.
June 25th 2006, the day Gilad Shalit was captured. June 25th is coming up soon and I would like for you to get the word out about it. Just like I mentioned about Michael Levin, just take part of your day to commemorate him and I am only asking for ONE minute of silence.
Thank you so much for reading these blogs and I would appreciate it if you watched this video I attached below!
What i like most about this project is the fact that we get to change history,what was hard though after the initial excitement was getting solid ideas that would be interesting and wholesome. The actions i make amelia earhart do speeds up the historical record because i make it so that she inspires women so that they have a huge leap into politics and the military and getting everything done efficiently. i thought that if women were a larger factor earlier, things would get done faster and people would be. Also because women are more emotional and mostly rule their actions by that, america is a more accepting and loving although with having a swelled military, america is still the most feared nation if they get pissed off. This project could get improved by slowing down and fully elaborating on different points. I also feel that it can be improved if only one other person was making it with me. If I had to do it over again, i would keep my folder in the classroom so i didnt lose it and have to start from scratch again. I would also plan my time better so that i could get it done before the due date just in case something happened.
What i like most about this project is the fact that we get to change history,what was hard though after the initial excitement was getting solid ideas that would be interesting and wholesome. The actions i make amelia earhart do speeds up the historical record because i make it so that she inspires women so that they have a huge leap into politics and the military and getting everything done efficiently. i thought that if women were a larger factor earlier, things would get done faster and people would be. Also because women are more emotional and mostly rule their actions by that, america is a more accepting and loving although with having a swelled military, america is still the most feared nation if they get pissed off. This project could get improved by slowing down and fully elaborating on different points. I also feel that it can be improved if only one other person was making it with me. If I had to do it over again, i would keep my folder in the classroom so i didnt lose it and have to start from scratch again. I would also plan my time better so that i could get it done before the due date just in case something happened.
I liked creating new primary sources about my POD. The most challenging thing would have to be finding information that would result because of my POD. I feel as the historical record is affected by the individuals because they made their decisions, not anyone else. If systemic changes didn’t happen, the historical record wouldn’t be so bad. The decisions in the historical record were influential because once one person made a bad choice another did. It terribly ruined the history. History shouldn’t have to be about people being murdered and wars. I think that the project could be improved if we had a bigger time limit and more class time because it gives everyone a chance to exceed expectations by making more primary sources to our event. If I did this project over, I would look at when it was due because I didn't pay attention to the due date and had to rush to get everything done on time. Overall, I really think this project was a great idea for a benchmark.
Here is the link to the video It is played by hitting the metal plates with the mallet. The notes are different based off the length of the metal plates. It is shaped like a piano. It makes me think I can cut different sizes of metal plates to create the different notes. I can conclude that the waves produced are caused by the vibrations. The vibrations determine the sound.
For the Xylophone, sound is made when the bars or pipes vibrate. When the pipes are hit, the energy is transferred to the pipes which makes them vibrates which then vibrates air particles around it. The pitch of the sound depends on the size of the pipes and also the type of material the pipe is made out of. In order to make a xylophone, I'm going to get copper pipes and use calculations to determine how long they have to be to make the notes that I want them to make. After I cut the pipes to the correct lengths, I will have them sit on a piece of wood, but make sure that the ends aren't fixed, so the pipes can vibrate.
For my physics music assignment I decided to build a wind chime as my instrument. A wind chime is played not by mouth or string but my a hand and a hard object, ie mallet. Sound is only produced when another object hits one of the wind chimes. Typically a person has a mallet or stick and hits the wind chimes that are of different lengths to produce different sounds. Wind chimes are a bunch of pipes made out of metal that are of different lengths. They are generally places on strings and hung from ceilings. The shape of the wind chime makes me think that the length plays a big part in the sounds that are produced. For instance if you have a longer pipe the sound will be deeper and lower. When learning about waves I related it to my instrument. Different wavelengths produce different sounds because of the different frequencies. All of the pipes of the wind chime have different frequencies.
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I want to design my instrument in a way where it isn't necessarily "easy" but more manageable. I want to make it so it is portable but still large enough to produce a good sound. Since taking a more in depth look into waves, and energy transfer with waves I've learned that, with my instrument, when another objects strikes against it, the energy form it transfers into the pipe and vibrates it. The vibrations cause the sound waves and the sound waves have wave lengths that make the sound. With my wind chimes the pitch of the instrument will change according to the length of the instrument. To build my instrument I will be using copper pipes, string, and wood. I'm using copper because it was the metal my teacher chose but really any metal will do. Once my instrument is built I will play it by taking another piece of metal and hitting it on the pipes.
For this quarter, we were assigned to create couples of different projects, create a sculpture, take 200 photos, modify 4 photos, recreate a famous painting, sketch a bicycle three times in different ways, and draw an outside scene from observation. In my opinion all of the topics above seem really interesting and cool to create. However, along the way I ran into some trouble and I personally felt like it was really challenging for me. For the first project I created a sculpture of a lamp made out of Popsicle sticks and plastic bottles. So far this was one of the most interesting project that I have made. I really enjoy building art and ex-specially something that I can actually use everyday. Another project that I enjoy working on was taking 200 photos and modify 4 photos of my choice. Since I love photography and always carry my “DSLR” around at all time it was not a problem for me to capture 200 pictures. However, one of the harder task was to select photos and edit them using all different kind of programs on the Macbook, including Photoshop, iPhoto and more. After we are completed with electronics and hand down projects, we moved on into more of drawing and painting unit. For the second half of the quarter I created different drawing of a bike-cycle including lines, negative space and shading of the bike. The biggest challenge for this assignment was to do the shading because the bike was station close to the window so the reflection of the light changes at all time. Also it was far for a view distance so I’ve made a few errors along the way. Also it was really challenging to draw the bike over all because there were a lot of details to go into with the bike work. I also enough working on the drawing of nature because it’s really beautiful outdoor and there were a lot of objects I could select from. Over all, I really enjoy all of the assignment that was giving this quarter and proud of the art work I’ve created. Although I may have not been using enough time on some of my art piece.
I did fire because when my element (vanadium) is crushed up it is flammable, not in its normal state though. I didn't do red as my print color because i thought that would be too normal, so i chose colors that popped out and looked different on fire. I chose that font because just like fire, that font is curvy but has a sharp end. I chose this one out of the other pictures because it looked like it would turn out neat, and indeed it did.
