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file://localhost/Users/chrswanson13/Pictures/Photo%20Booth/Photo%20on%202011-11-07%20at%2010.01.jpg Pinwheel for peace My theme for pinwheels for peace was a collage of crying eye cut outs from magazines. I chose this theme to show suffering. This is to show that without suffering you cannot reach true peace. I see people always crying and it’s like each tear is one step closer to reaching peace. The biggest problem that I encountered when I was making my pinwheel was trying to get it to spin. I attached strings of tears to my pinwheel and when It spin the tears would wrap around the pencil. After many tries I found that if I made my pinwheel stick father out from my pencil the strings would not wrap around the base. I believe that my pinwheel is successful. It spins freely and it shows what peace means to me. I think that if I could change anything it would be that I would have tried to make it larger. The crying eyes really works with the slightly transparent blue as the background, as if the tears are filling up my pinwheel.

Reflection of figure Coming into this project I really wanted to do an image that really made you think of what the figure’s story was. My figure had the effect. I was struggling to find a figure that was both creepy and you didn’t really know what to think about it. I was very happy when I was shown the image of the pumpkin man in a field. I had numerous problems with my image. The biggest problem I had was trying to get the right colors to blend together. With The sky It was too bright and looked like it was in front of the figure, It took my many tries to find the correct combination of light colors to mute the color of the sky, and pill my figure out from the rest of the image. The bottom third of my image was really hard to find the colors that made it look like the field other than a blob of greens and blues. But I found that if I used a wet paintbrush and pushed the colors around it gave it an extraordinary texture that had a field feel to it. I was very pleased to find that pumpkin mans jacket came out very well and that the colors that I was very nervous to add to it came out making it look a lot better. My pumpkin head was difficult partially because it was what I started with so when I did the background the colors made it look like the pumpkin was part of the background other than popping out like it was supposed to. And because it was hard to get the lines to make the head look like a pumpkin. I also was very impressed with how the tree line came out because of how I used the technique with the wet paintbrush. There is no other media that I would have used other than oil pastels. Oil pastels gave the image the texture that I feel brought it all together. A lot of people don’t believe that tis was the first time that I have ever used oil pastels. It was really exciting to see an image that in the begging I absolutely hated to creating a finished project that I feel really came out looking like the original. To me this is a finished image. Of course there are always going to be things that I would like to change, but overall I really enjoyed the process, and the outcome of my image. In the beginning of this project I worked with Quicky. But when I found that moving my images was extremely difficult I decided to use Aviry. In Aviry I was able to import my groovy background and modify that. The reason I made the groovy background was because my kids drawing has a peace sign on his shirt. Knowing the kid that drew this picture I knew that he would really enjoy it. I was skeptical to try knew things because if I exceeded my limit of undos it would really make it difficult to fix. Then I pixilated the colors to make them look more retro. Then I had a few tweaks to fix and I was done. Environmental Reflective

I have had this secret admiration for trees. I know that makes me sound like a crazy tree hugger but its true, they are such wonderful creations that god made. And it’s absolutely terrible when those are cut down for money. The show “Ax Men” is horrible to me that people get so much amusement from it. When I was asked to chose an environmental problem the first thing that popped into my head was; trees they are basically the environment in them selves. The biggest problem that I encountered was making an accurate and proportional looking figure. With the help of that video we watched, it made it a lot easier. Time was also a huge figure, and the only way to solve it was to come in on our days off and every day after school. Using the most of the space I had was hard and I don’t think that I really fulfilled it very well. I really like my piece. To me I really showed my opinion on the issue. I feel like other people will be able to understand what it is that I am trying to get through. I like the loneliness that the lady in the middle is showing. That everything around her was destroyed. I was disappointed in the top, I love the picture in the middle but all together it is duller than I wanted. Altogether I feel like my piece came out very well in the end.