Topographical and magnetic maps.

Today we worked on topographical maps and magnetic maps with the base as our dots.

My topographical maps:

 My magnetic maps:

This project was interesting, if a tad tedious.

Dots!

I present my thumbnails:

I present my dots:

Proximity

Similarity

Continuance

 This is the three dots that my group picked for me:

 I changed it to these three because the one they picked for similarity was actually for proximity:

3 proposals

My object that I picked was initially very intimidating.

The Object

 I thought long and hard on how I could even come close to replicating the complexity of this object with cardboard. I think, though, I have come up with something that is possible within the time frame.

A sweet breastplate

Attached to my arm

A (really big) shoe

Cardboard "Spheres"

Wow, this project proved to be much more difficult than I originally had imagined it would be. Mostly due to my own ignorance, of course. My plan was to cut out all the pieces first and glue them all on Sunday. This was all well and good until my glue gun decided to stop working for no apparent reason in the middle of making my structural sphere. From that point on, I had to resort to using wood glue, which was so much more tedious to glue each piece together. I have definitely learned not to wait until the last minute now and to always have extra copies of my supplies. 

No Glue Sphere
Not exactly a sphere, but still interesting.

Structural Sphere
I really do like how this one turned out personally.

Surface Sphere
The wood glue changed the look from what I was going for,
but I was glad the concept worked.

First day of WASH

The first day of WASH certainly wasn't what I was expecting (though I'm not quite sure what I was expecting, to be quite honest). We started the day making a costume out of newspapers. I made a Jason-type mask and a shotgun.

It was actually kind of fun starting the day off like this, and I especially enjoyed the ingenuity and imagination of the costumes of my classmates.
Next, we went through a number of lectures and activities (including acting out the principles of design in music).
The lecture on all art being tension was interesting, but I'm don't really agree with it fully. While probably most art is based on some kind of tension to be interesting, I have found some that I would call "harmony-based". This kind of art shows things working and existing together, such as your nature paintings or paintings of fruit and such.