My first piece, the Ceiling Tile, is one that I was moderately pleased with. I based the design off of Steven Universe, it represents an insignia featured in the show. I took the original design featured on the show, the four colored diamond, and added a flower with vines that strangled the original design. I surrounded the entire things with earthly colors, the colors of the flower and vines, to show that the original design was completely isolated. This reflects an event in the show that one wouldn't know unless they viewed it.

For the first quarter, I have done three art piece. They were the ceiling tile, the fall wall hanging, and lastly my self-portrait. For the ceiling tile, I decide to do something similar to my sister's tile, The Muppets. I did the character, Walter. I chose to make the background green because it looks like the character Walter is behind a green screen. For the fall wall hanging, I had an idea that I should make a banner that said, "fall is here" and decorate the background like fall. Also, I wanted to make my drawing to that fall is happy. For the self-portrait, it was hard to draw myself at first and on a big piece of paper. It was really a big challenge to draw all my artworks by hand and my eye skill.

These are the two pieces I've done this quarter. The first is my ceiling tile, which depicts flowers drawn similarly to those in scientific texts. My second piece is my self-portrait, which was done with pencil. 

For the first quarter, my art course has been let out of expression. Getting permission to paint Black Lives Matter on a ceiling tile that anyone who enters the school can see, I knew I had artistic freedom. That making me even more comfortable with my style of art with my next piece,"SZA". Her music brings me a fall nostalgic vibe so I knew she had to be the person behind my creation. Ending this quarter, my final piece was a self portrait. Being the most challenging assignment in the class, I had to spend a lot more time redesigning each line.

This marking period was really fun. This class let me be creative and that was really cool. Our first project was the ceiling tile. At first I did not know what to do at first but then starting to think about things I like. So I created a ceiling tile based on my favorite artist mixtape. The finish product was amazing. I enjoyed doing this project although it was time consuming.

​On the first week of Art class, we created and designed our own ceiling tile. We could either design it with our own ideas or with the help of the internet. To create this ceiling tile, we first thought of an idea and drew it on a piece of paper or put it on our computers to be traced to the tile.  Then, after it's approved we transferred our drawings to the tile and painted it directly on the tile. I created a dream catcher for my ceiling tile and figured that I should put quotes relating to the drawing. The colors that I used varied but my background is purple since it is my favorite color. 

My personal favorite piece that I did was the ceiling tile because it was a different type of art that I usually do, so therefore I decided to jump out of my comfort zone, and I think that it turned out pretty good. The Self-portraits weren't really my thing, however I do think I did pretty good for a beginner.  

My ceiling tile has a lot of meaning for me. It is an anime character named Natsu, from one of my favorite animes called "Fairy Tail." Behind him is the fairy tail symbol. Natsu has fire magic so that's why the fire in in the picture. Whenever I see this symbol or Natsu, it reminds me to be strong and work hard towards the goals I want to achieve in life. I am very proud with how it turned out, and I like my art style. I drew everything by hand and eye, no tracing. Next in my self portrait I challenged myself to again not tracing and using hand and eye skills. I started out with shapes and made my way into detail. It was difficult at first. In fact I have another picture of the same thing that I drew of myself, on a smaller paper. They look different. This portrait looks just like me, but the other had better details in the shading. I absolutely am prod of my work. 

For this semester, I created two pieces of art, which I then took pictures of and put in my slideshow. My first piece of art was a painted ceiling tile with an art design of my choice. Due to my passionate stance on love, peace, and compassion, I drew a large heart with a peace sign embedded into it, the sun and moon to represent equality, a smile to represent happiness, and a plus sign to represent positivity. My second piece was a rough self-portrait on a piece of poster paper.