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I choose my theme of trees and wilderness because I think the outdoors is very peaceful. I also think that it is very pretty and should be preserved. I also choose it because I thought it would be a good challenge.

As I said I thought it would be a challenge and that was defenetly right! I was going to use real birch bark but couldn't find any so I had to search in the wallpaper books to find one that looked like bark. When I tried to modge podge the real leaves on the paper they wouldn't dry so I tried to hot glue them to the paper but it turned them brown! So! I searched in the wallpaper book and cut out leaves. The next day I saw that my leaves had dried so I tried to modge podge them and they still didn't dry so I tried to hot glue them again and it worked! So I glued the leaves on and it looked really good!

I think it turned out really good. I wish it would be more stiff but I don't know how to fix that. It spins but I wish it spun a little better.



I picked this painting for a couple different reasons. One of which is that i like the background and the colors. The other is that I didn't have to draw and paint her face. I wanted this to look good so I had to make sure I was going to have to worry about drawing the face.

Throughout my process of this project I did come across a few problems. The biggest thing that I had problems with is the shirt and the skirt and the face. It was really hard for me to do the shirt because I saw it as a white shirt with some blue low lights but instead it actually had more blue then white in it. I also had a hard time putting the yellow shadows in the shirt because I didn't want it to blend with the blue and make green.

I think I tried really hard on this painting. I also think I could have done better. Towards the end I started getting frustrated with the colors and I didn't have very much time to finish it. I think my painting was a successful work of art because I think I duplicated the original painting well.

Wow, this was a really stressful process! I was so excited to do this project because I thought it would be so much fun and I could be creative. I started on Queeky but I lost my stuff two times and I couldn't figure out how to put the background in with the layers. Then when I did figure it out I couldn't resize it. So I decided to use Aviary. I lost my art once on that site but when I had the girl like I wanted her it was easy to figure out how to put the background in and how to resizes it! I think it was a good expirence and once you have done this project with a few classes and got the websites understood.



Enviroment painting: I really like the way my painting turned out. I took forever to do it but it was worth it. I love the outdoors and woods and sunsets/sunrises. I also love fishing and so does Jon so that's why I decided to draw what I did. I did like my drawing of the boat better then the painting because I put a lot of detail in it and I'm not a very good painter so I couldn't do the detail as well. That goes the same as Jon I liked him better before I painted him.

I really had a hard time with the whole thing because I wanted it to be really good. I had this really great vision in my head of how it would turn out and it didn't turned out as good as I wanted. I had a really hard time with with the reflection of the sky and the boat and Jon. I couldn't get the colors to blend just right. I also couldn't get the lighting on the boat and Jon just right. I had a hard time with that pn the last painting I did too.

I think my painting was a successful work of art. If I can I would like to get it framed to hang in my room. I think I might have been able to improve a little on minor details like with the boat and Jon.

**__ Figure Project Final __** I picked out this Social Issue for two many reasons. The first is because most of the Social Issues that I have seen in the past have been really sad and depressing and this one isn’t as bad as Abortion or Abuse. The second is because I love the environment and I hate seeing it cut down. I have always been a troubled when I see huge parts of woods and forests cut down and destroyed. The first time I remember seeing this was about six or seven years ago in the Upper Peninsula. My family and I going camping in the U.P. every year and one year we went up there to find that most of the trees around our camping site was cut down. Not only were the trees around our site cut down but so many others in the U.P. were as well. The way they cut down the trees made everything look horrible. They just demolished entire woods and habitats. That was probably the worst vacation we had because everywhere we went it jut looked so sad. Every year after we went back it looked a little better but to the day it still doesn’t look the same as it did before they cut down the trees.

I was really worried that my projected would turn out too “science-fairy”. I chose to make the background a tri-fold and I think that is the main reason I thought it might look like a science-fair project. I also used facts that would contribute to that look. But once I got everything put together it didn’t look as bad as I thought it would. I really like the middle part of my background where I used blockposters.com to blow up a picture of a bulldozers plowing down trees. I painted the bulldozer red to show that it is bad. I also painted the trees that were still standing green. I mixed a lot of modge-podge with a little green so that you can see picture clearly. I wasn’t sure if that would work but I really like the way it looks with the rest of the picture being in black and white. I also like the bark that I used to decorate my box. I think it really pulls everything together. I was really upset that my figure exploded when it was getting fired. I was having a really hard time with it when I was making it and I really like the way the other figured turned out.

I think my project turned out to be a success or at least I hope it was a success. I think saving forests are very important because it affects so many living things. I hope that when people see my project they will do whatever they can to preserve the forests.