The Book Project

In my book, the original story of my two characters was that the little girl, Emily, found a cowboy, Jack, sleeping on a bench and took his hat. She ran off with it, and Jack wakes up to find his hat gone. He then finds Emily and takes his hat back. Emily is upset because she likes his hat, and Jack sees that she is upset and is happy to give his hat back to Emily.

During this project, I thought it was difficult to tell a story using no words and only five pictures. You definitely had limits to pick which major parts of the story you want to get across in this one, five page book. My reader got the story perfectly and was able to know the story only looking at my five collages. She said: There is a cowboy sleeping in the subway and a little girl. The little girl takes the man's hat and puts in on her head. The cowboy finds the little girl and takes it off her head and puts it back on his. But then in the end the little girl gets it back!

This was one of our tougher projects but I think it was a good project to do because it taught you to really think about the most important parts of the story and how they need to make sense to tell the story using no words and fewer pages.

Found Objects

When we started brainstorming ideas and organizing our found objects, making a car was the first thing that came to mind from the objects that I found. Some of the objects I found were perfect for the parts of the car, but some of them were really unecessary, and I had no where to use them. When I was making the sculpture, I felt like there were a lot of things I could add or make different. There were so many different options that were possible for one sculpture. It was a little difficult because some of the pieces I found were not fit for the sculpture I was making but I found a way to work them in somehow. In a way, this project was similar to the pour painting we did, because even though we were able to find which pieces could go in the sculpture, we didn't have that much control over what the end result looked like. The sculpture kid of changed from what we originally imagined it to be, but in the end I think we were all happy with the way our scuptures turned out.

Number One

One piece of artwork that I think is very interesting is called "Starry Night" by an artist named Vincent Van Gogh. I find it interesting because of the way he uses colors and patterns.