My room was inspired from a made up cabin I had thought of. On the backwall is a mounted fish hunting a smaller fish. The room to the right will enter into a screened porch. The coat rack in the back corner of the room is a little compartment for fishing gear, with 5 rods, a top compartment for tackle, and more room for whatever else. There is a TV that gets darker as it faces away from the light at the top, and the windows are darker at the top since the sun is setting. There is a couch that can turn into a small and easily made bed with pillows and a blanket. The table in the back is just a small table with a flower inside of it. I like how the room came out, and hope you do too.

My inspiration for this project was the original painting, named the same as my painting. I simply used colored pencils for a sketch, then used water colors to give the painting a more vibrant design. I realized I wanted to make the artwork more colorful, so I used water color to make the art more colorful.  I worried that the water colors would make the paper soaked, but luckily it was not. I really like how it came out, but my favorite spot of it is how well the ocean came out. I think I would change the area where the black meets the screaming character, it just seemed off.

"Musky! Everything else is just bait"

This is a phrase that is used often when talking about the notorious fish of 10,000 casts. These fish are smart, know how to hide, and when they attack chaos is unleashed. These lures that are badly drawn are just a few of the many many lures made for the muskellunge. The middle one, the bucktail, is a very simple fish catcher, much like most of the others. Muskies can weigh up to 70 pounds and be about 70 inches long(or about 6 feet long). Most muskie anglers use very heavy duty gear to fish for them, since they are like the barracudas of freshwater. Many have tried to catch them, few have succeeded in catching a trophy. I hope to get one someday, even catching a baby muskie is an achievement. 

Lures shown: 

1. Black=bucktail

2. Black/orange=topwater

3. Red=jerkbait

4. Blue=crankbait

5. Green=soft plastic, called a medussa because of its many tails

6. Yellow=glide bait

I based my metal tooling project off of the movie "Godzilla vs Kong", a new addition to the Monsterverse movies involving Godzilla, King Kong, Mechagodzilla, and more. I started first on my metal, tooling it with multiple little easter eggs and hints to what the movie is about while making both Godzilla and Kong the obvious main parts to the picture. I then did oil pastel drawings on a piece of black paper, hot-glueing the metal to it in the end. I realized at first that the metal was off by a bit, so I moved it, but only after the glue dried the second time did I realize that the metal was still out off to the side a bit, but I couldn't fix it. I took a risk with the hot glue by adding a little more to it than I intended, it could've ruined my paper backing but luckily it did not. I like the metal itself and how the patterns turned out, such as the mechanical patterns revealing that Mechagodzilla would appear in the movie, and the actual pastel drawings were great too, because it shows that Godzilla and Kong both live in separate worlds, one in the ocean and the other in the jungle. I would try to save the metal by hot-glueing it again, maybe to make it center.

I did base my project on ancient weaves, but instead I simply threw together some colors that looked decent with each other and hoped it came out as good as it did. Luckily, I remembered how to make one of these from when I did this in 6th grade. If I didn't remember, I don't think it would have came out as good. I ran into the problem of tying the threads at the end. Admittedly, it still doesn't look too good, but it could have looked worse. I learned how to tie the threads together. Again, doesn't look too good. I like how the product looks ancient, which was one of the goals I had when making this project. I would maybe change the color choices, adding a couple brighter colors to the weave.