• What is your element? Name and atomic number

My element is Lithium and the atomic number is three.

• Tell the reader about your element, history, function/use and so on.

Lithium’s weight is the lightest solid element and the lightest metal. It conducts electricity functions and heat very well. Johann August Arfvedson is the founder of the element Lithium and found it in 1817.

• How did you get the idea for the imagery you chose?

I got the idea from its conduction of electricity so my print was a battery.

• What process did you go through to make this print?

I brainstormed of an idea, drew it, traced on paper which got put on a styrofoam paper. Then I put paint on the styrofoam and then pushed into it on a paper which created a print.

• What would you do differently if you did this print a second time?

Nothing, I felt I did pretty good with everything.

• What part of the project did you enjoy the most? Describe the step and what you liked so much about it.

I like brainstorming because it allowed me to express my creativity.

1. Vanadium V23

2.  Vanadium is a hard, silvery grey, ductile, and malleable transition metal. It was first founded in 1801 in Mexico.

3. I got the idea from google after looking up pictures that had Vanadium in it.

4. I first had to sketch it, then put it on a sheet, draw it backwards on styrofoam, and then print it with paint. Finally, I pressed the paint-filled styrofoam and let it dry.

5. If I did this project a second time, I would make sure my styrofoam was deeper in.

6. I enjoyed painting it because I liked the feeling of rolling the paint.

This quarter in Art class, we were given 7 assignments alongside this blog post. These assignments focused on many different elements that are commonly utilized in art. Most of these assignments were done with pencil, besides one, which was done online.

The first week focused on line drawings. This was the assignment I put the most work into. The goal was to research different poses, and draw the people accurately. It was interesting to view how different poses or movements have the ability to change an entire piece of art. I preferred using pencil for this assignment, due to constantly having to erase or redo certain parts.

The next assignment was the line drawing. I learned about the technique of line size. Lines have the ability to change a piece of art depending on how large or thin they are. I decided to draw more simple objects to see how I could change line size.

The digital drawing was the third assignment. Through this assignment, I realized that I preferred drawing with pencil over drawing digitally. There are a lot of different buttons and options for online drawing, even with a simple website like the one I used. However, online drawings do seem easier for different tasks over using pencil, such as more complex drawings. I learned that an online medium does have positives to being used.

For the next assignment, we had to create the illusion of space. Through this assignment, I was able to strengthen my knowledge of one-point perspectives and gain a greater understanding of shading and value, which would be used later.

The next assignment was to practice drawing with texture. To being, I drew many examples of common textures. This helped me realize the importance of texture. It can create depth and more realistic art. I believe texture is best done with a pencil as well, as I found myself erasing incorrect textures frequently.

The value drawing focused on using shading and tones of an object. This assignment felt the most difficult to adjust to, due to the amount of factors that had to be considered. Light sources and shading techniques, alongside other factors, were all needed to create a realistic value drawing. I used pencil again because I felt that shading is best done with a pencil. I spent a good portion of my studio time researching how to create a realistic tone when a light source exists.

For the elements of art drawing, I decided to draw a flower. I believed that a natural object could best use all of the elements we learned in art class overall. I used pencil and colors to create this piece because I had to focus on value and line size. This drawing made me realize that it takes a lot of effort to create a piece that uses multiple elements of art, which I had not done before. This allowed for an interesting process and end result

Overall, I thought this quarter helped strengthen my understanding of the fundamentals of art. Each week presented a different and new topic, and I was able to use most of them in later assignments.

My element is bohrium number 107. Bohrium was made in a lab in small amounts. They is currently no known use for it. I made a picture of niels bohr who made the element. I drew the man and changed him to show up well in negative space. I also, used the model of the element we learned to do in bio. Next time, I would add more maybe in lab making the element. I loved printing it onto paper was fun. The process to put the paint on paper was cool.

My element is called Iridium and the atomic number is 77. Iridium is a very hard and brittle metal that is used to coat the lenses of binoculars in order to reduce glare and help the lenses become clearer when you see through them. Iridium was discovered in 1803 by a chemist named Smithson Tennant. He discovered Iridium by dissolving platinum in a substance called aqua regla.

I got the idea to draw binoculars because Iridium is used to coat the lenses of binoculars. In order to make this print I first sketch a drawing of the binoculars. Then I made another sketch of the binoculars in tracing paper. Using the tracing paper sketch I traced the drawing into a piece of styrofoam. After doing that I coated the styrofoam with a layer of paint and placed a blank paper on top of it and that's how I got all three prints done. If I were to do this project again I would start the printing process earlier than I actually did. My favorite part about this project was coming up with an idea for my drawing. I enjoyed this because I learned a lot of information about the element that I was assigned.

• What is your element? Name and atomic number

• -My element is Manganese, its atomic number is 25.

• Tell the reader about your element, history, function/use and so on.

• - Manganese has been around for more than three centuries, it was discovered by a swedish chemist by the name of Johan Gottlieb Gahn. Manganese. A good amount of the Earth's crust is actually made of manganese

• How did you get the idea for the imagery you chose?

• I didn't want to do a generic soda can so I decided that I was going to do a human body with a lot of foods that are high in manganese and I can have that as my symbol.

• What process did you go through to make this print?

• My process for this was kind of long and kind of easy at the same time, I decided on my design in the actually really like my design but I doubt it it for a while because I thought it was too simple or it was just not going to look well as my final product but I actually love how it turned out. I made three drawing prince before I transferred it onto my styrofoam plate and I picked my best one in my favorite one.

• What would you do differently if you did this print a second time?

• I think I would have changed how I made my styrofoam plate I would have darkened more areas so that it would have given more deaths to the final product because I don't think I pressed down as hard with my pencil when I was making a styrofoam plate and because of that it wasn't as precise as I wanted it to be.

• What part of the project did you enjoy the most? Describe the step and what you liked so much about it.

• My favorite part about the project was probably the printing process with a styrofoam plate onto the final white paper. This is because I felt like it was just really refreshing seeing my final print come to life and seeing the different colors that I could have it associated with. So with the printing process I had to use a barrel thing and roll this slow drying paint on my styrofoam plate which then I transferred and pressed against a white piece of paper which was going to be my final paper and so the paint from the styrofoam plate would be transferred onto the final.

My element is titanium and the atomic number is 22. It was named titanium after a titan from greek mythology because it’s strong. Now it is mainly used to make aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles because of how strong and dense it is. I chose to do an airplane because it’s made out of titanium. At first I wanted to do a cool airplane until I realized how difficult it was to draw. So then I stuck with a regular one that only shows the front view of an airplane. To make this print I made numerous amount of sketches until I found one that was the best that I could do. Then, I traced the sketch onto tracing paper then put it on the foam. If I had to do this project over again I would chose something that would resemble how strong titanium is instead of doing a plain airplane. The part of the project that I enjoyed the most was finishing and turning in the art because I would worry about how good it was until I realized I did the best I could.

What is your element? Name and atomic number

My element was chlorine. The atomic number is 17.

Tell the reader about your element, history, function/use and so on.

The element chlorine is a well-often used substance mostly in solid and liquid form. Chlorine in gas form is dangerous. In liquid and solid form, it is often used to clean and used in pools because it kills disease.

How did you get the idea for the imagery you chose?

My common knowledge on the topic plus a bit of research.

What process did you go through to make this print?

It wasn’t difficult to do the drawing and the carving, the hardest part was printing.

What would you do differently if you did this print a second time?

Maybe I would find a way to make my print out better.

What part of the project did you enjoy the most? Describe the step and what you liked so much about it.

Even though it didn’t come out as well as I wanted it to, printing was fun. I enjoyed rolling the paint onto the styrofoam and pressing down on it to make the print come out

The element I made a print for Francium. Francium’s atomic number is 87. Francium is a super rare element that was discovered by Marguerite Perey. Francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey, a French Physicist. She was working with the radioactive decay of actinium and when it decays it turns into another element. She was putting multiple series of reactions, and soon discovered something she did not recognize. She did some research and realized that it was one of the missing elements on the periodic table, number 87. She named the element “Francium” after her hometown, France.

Francium is a radioactive metal,  also known as an alkali metal because it has one valence electron.  And if you didn’t know, Alkali Metals are super reactive to water. If Francium were to touch water, it would cause a huge explosion. The explosion would be so dangerous and would be fatal. So for my image, I made an explosion. We don’t use francium for anything because it’s so dangerous, the only choice I had was an explosion.

The process to make the print was pretty simple. We first drew a rough sketch of our drawing and after that we had to make a final copy. Next we take thin wax paper and trace it on the wax paper. After that we get a plate (which is a thin piece of foam) and turn the wax paper so it’s backwards on the plate. It had to be backwards because if not, the final plate would be revered and wrong. I then carved into the plate by tracing the lines on the wax paper. The carving transferred and now it was time for paint. There was a paint station. Each color of paint had a roller that makes it easier to paint the print. After you cover the plate with paint, you put a clean piece of paper over the wet paint and you press over the plate. If you do this correctly, you’ll get the image transferred onto the clean piece of paper. You let that dry.

After it’s completely dry, you take a ruler and put it on the edge of the image. You then rip the excess paper off. You continue this for all of the edges. After you have the completed print, you take a construction paper and make a 1 inch border around the print. That’s how you make a print! You repeat these steps until you are satisfied with the paint coverage. The more you practice, the more you improve, the better the image transfers and comes out.

If I were to change anything different with my process, I would listen the first time and not cut my print out. I would also not put too much pressure when transferring the image with the spoon, I made some indentations which you could see in later versions of my prints. Even though I made some mistakes, I really enjoyed the whole process. My favorite part was painting the carving. I was so satisfying and relaxing to do. I would definitely do this project again!