For this assignment, i was tasked with going outside and practicing pointillism to portray emotion and feeling in my piece. I sketched a picture of a pine tree, though it is not very visible.

For this assignment, we used the soot buildup from putting a flame to the bottom of a spoon to make ink. We first held the spoon above an open flame, allowing black soot to build up on the surface. Once enough soot was on the spoon, we pushed it into a small plastic cup with a brush. When enough soot was collected in the cup, we mixed a few drops of isopropyl alcohol and gum arabic to mix it into a black ink.

Augusta Savage is oftentimes regarded as one of the best sculptors of her time, and a leading artist in the Harlem Renaissance. One of her more famous works, titled "Lift Every Voice and Sing", took special interest to me, as its composition gracefully combines both meaning and beauty. 

Lift Every Voice and Sing was made up of plaster painted to look bronze, and portrayed multiple people and a large hand, arranged to look like a harp. The folds of the clothing strongly resemble the strings of a harp, and the hand acts as the sound box of the harp. Not only that, but the title of the piece also greatly relates to the piece itself. The figures in the sculpture are, as the title states, lifted up by the hand and allowed to sing. The sculpture very effectively communicates a message to let the voices of black people be heard, but that can only be done by lifting them up.

For this assignment, we were told to make our own paper out of paper scraps. First, we had to tear apart scraps of paper to then put into a half-full of water blender pitcher. We then blended it on Chop, Mix, and then Liquify options. We then poured the finished mixture into a plastic pan of water, then lifted a sieve through it. Once on the sieve, we compressed and dried the paper pulp on the sieve with a towel, then put it onto a larger piece of paper to dry. This way of making paper can relate to chemistry because in real life chemistry, old things are constantly being recycled into newer things, which is much like how this paper was made: recycling old paper into new paper. I believe this type of paper-making could be considered an art form. You can mix certain colors of paper and blend them at varying intensities to make a colorful art piece. For my paper, I incorporated an abstract and artful depiction of safety scissors to represent the importance of safety, even in subjects like art.

In this assignment, we were told to watch an edpuzzle on Fu Baoshi paintings. We then had to make a Fu Baoshi painting ourselves. For my painting, I chose to paint a river to a distant pagoda, with 2 trees on either side of the river.

For this assignment, we were told to boil pieces of red cabbage and/or blueberries to make dye, to then dye a given bandana to then rinse and let dry. Click here to go to related document.

For this assignment, we made a recipe card of an interesting dish on canva. This dish had to have the ingredients from the cultures of our group members. I chose rice and spring onions.

For this project, we had to make a candy collection game in a coding site called Snap!. The paper told us to make a specific game with requirements, but I decided to take my own spin on things to make the game more fun.

In this project, I combined STEAM subjects into it by making it an art piece revolving around science. From it, I learned about multiple uses of Cobalt, like the fact it can be used to make ceramics and glass a brilliant blue color. I was creative by incorporating multiple examples of these uses, like the teapot dyed cobalt blue, the cobalt blue ink, the cobalt blue wine glass, and the B-12 vitamin container. These stood out the most because of their color contrasting well against both the dark surface and the whitish background. I think the most important principle of art used in this piece was also the contrast because of how much it made the examples stand out.

For this station, we did another Quizizz and I got a 75% on it this time.  There were only a couple confusing questions, and a few questions that needed me to search things up, like binary code for 5.

For this station, we did a Quizziz that was 5 minutes long and had 10 questions. I got a 100% on it because I watched the video.

After the video and editing was done, we set up a self reflection and a presentation guide for ourselves.

This mandala is from buddhist culture, and it being made was a form of meditation. I think mandalas are made all around the world for both fun and practicing your culture, as investing yourself in such a time consuming practice is something I think someone with a lot of motivation would do. In this particular mandala, I can see aspects of symmetry and color.

For this assignment we filled out a script template. 

We put our name in the contract.

In the GRAPES Chart, each team member had to do at least 1 topic of ancient Rome. I did Religion and Achievements. For religion, I put that Rome was polytheistic, and for Achievements, I put aqueducts, concrete, and calendars.

Big Tower only required 6 lines to finish (8 if you include the comment and empty line), and was very simple, only needing 2 while loops and a single if statement.