- What is your element?

My element is Nitrogen.

- What are some things your element are used for?

Some things my element is used for is producing ammonia and fertilizers, and its used to manufacture nitric acid.

- How did you come up with the idea for your print?

I came up with the idea of my project by the fact that nitrogen is in all living things. That is were I got the idea for the earth part of my print. I also found out that the the word nitrogen means "burnt air". That is where I got the idea for the fire on half of the earth.

- What steps did you take from your idea for the print to the final print?

The first step of this project was to research a meaning behind the common idea of your element. It was very important for us not to pick the first idea that came into our mind. We picked three of our ideas and sketched then in our sketchbooks. Then we picked one and traced the good one onto a block. Then we cut out either the negative or positive space of our drawing. We then printed four prints with the carved block. 

- What are your thoughts on the project?

I liked this project, except for the carving part. The carving was really hard to do. My favorite part was making the prints. This project taught me how to turn simple negative space drawings and make them into something bigger, like these prints. Before this quarter I didn't know much about negative space drawings. Now I have learned a lot and am very happy with my print.

- What would you do differently if you did this project again?

If I was going to do this project again, I would most likely of researched more and gone a bit farther behind the element to get my idea. 

 

My element is Manganese, number 25 on the periodic table. Manganese is fused with other medals to increase their durability and to help them keep a polish. This is because manganese is an extremely hard metal and does not scratch easily. It is also used to help fuse other metals together.
My design is a shield with two arrows crossing it. The arrows represent manganese's ability to fuse other elements, and the shield represents its durability. To take My project to the final print I redesigned the arrows to be double headed. so they point in all directions.
I personally like my final product, I feel the design transferred well and is interesting to look at.
If I did this project again I would have made my design smaller so that you could tell what is is more easily.

My element is numeber 53, Iodine! My element is used to protect people from radiation, and it is a result of creating saltpeter from seaweed. My idea was to include its origin, seaweed, and it's uses, to help prevent radiation, that's why I made the seaweed and the nuclear plant. At first, I wanted to include its color, but I felt that wouldn't be very clear. I very much enjoyed this project, mostly because we had a lot time to do it and because it wasn't a primarily drawing project. I you were to change the project, the only thing I would change is to give us a bit more time to research what we want to draw.

​My element is Potassium. Potassium is found in fruits such as bananas, oranges, and avocado. i came up with drawling a fruit basket because most people know that potassium is in fruit, so i thought that that was the easiest way to represent that. I started off with just a rough sketch of it, then i traced it on the bock. I had to carve out the negative spaces. Than I had to use a roller to paint the block and print it out on 4 different sheets of paper. I thought that this project was hard. It was a long process and I cut myself twice. I would be more careful. 

My element is Aluminum. Aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group.
It is used for transportation, sheets, tube, castings packaging, construction (windows, building wire), cooking utensils street lighting poles and etc.  I decided to do a picture of an angel because once aluminum became popular they decided to make the first statue of a angel in aluminum. When doing this project i started to just research this project to get ideas of pictures that i wanted to draw. After that i drew the picture transported it to the block and carved it out. I thought this project was really different but in all i thought that this project was really difficult and had so many steps so i didn't care for it to much.
If i did this project i would try to buy a folder for this because it a lot to hold on to and i would try to cut out the board safer.

I was given the element Arsenic. Arsenic is normally seen in the form of poison. Its atomic number is 33. Its used in laser diodes and LEDs A very very small percentage is need for a healthy nervous system.

This project was similar to the Negative space drawing because we had to choose what part of the drawing we wanted positive and negative.  We had to carve out what we wanted to be positive and leave what we wanted to be negative

For the Printmaking project I chose to draw a Street light and Inside the street are LEDs which are made from Gallium Arsenide.

If I could do this again I would do a different print. The printing wasn't that hard but I didn't favor that part of the project 

​    My element is an yttrium. It is a Metallic element, not rare on earth but occurring in nearly all rare-earth minerals. Yttrium is classified as a “Transition Metal” Which is located on group 3 period 5 on the periodic table. An element classified as a Transition metal is ductile, malleable, and able to conduct electricity and heat. Yttrium are used to make europium and europium phosphors that give the red color in the televisions picture tubes. So bacilli it is used for the color of a T.V and not only that used for radars, and microwave. 
    I came up with this print by thinking about a microwave, the letter “Y” and the number 39 since that is the number of it on the periodic table. Well the idea was just putting together a drawling that would match the element Yttrium. I really didn’t have any thoughts for the project. And I really wouldn’t do anything to change it because I like the project the way it is.

1. My element was sodium 

2. The element can be used for a heat agent its used, in sodium vapor lamps, to manufacture sodamide, and also used as table salt 

3. I chose this print because it looked like salt in the air.

4. I made like a certain type of salt maker then salt in the air like the powder.

5. I think this project was fun and exciting but i didn't like that i cut my hands twice.

6. I would have chose a different type of print to draw.