Lamplight black is an ink that you can make at home using  simple chemistry. First you take a candle and light it, it will combust . Due to candles burning dirty it leaves carbon soot on a metal surface if held above the fire. Once you've collected enough carbon soot, mix it with alcohol or water and add a natural binder called Arabic gum. Our experiment actually ended up failing. We mistakenly got wax on our brush we were to use to mix the ingredients.

Augusta Savage is an extremely talented artist who offers a unique perspective as a black woman. She made the most popular piece of work in the 1939 world fair, although it seems it was destroyed afterwards. more than half of her work is either lost or destroyed, that's half of her 40 years of sculpting. The art we do have access to is really amazing, you can tell that in this image shown that she captures the soul of this boy named "gamin." The PBS special episode talks about how the sculpture is truly modern if you compare it to how young black boys were being depicted at that time.

I really appreciate the small detail in the art, one small detail that I would never have thought about is the lines from the nostril that define the cheek bone. What really makes it impressive is that you can tell that its their while also making the face slightly chubby showing the childishness.  The face is very serious, but also very intrigued and curious at the same time. The details in the clothing especially the collar is my second favorite part about the piece. Details like this really show emotion and care. 

We used the paper cellulose from color paper and  paper we used for Chinese ink art. We blended the paper and soaked it in water. We used a strainer to collect the pulp and get it ready to dry. I flip the pulp onto a rag that has special properties and once its dried we peel it off.

We learned how to make Fu Baoshi style Chinese paintings using only 1 dip of ink on our brush. Fu Baoshi is a famous Chinese painter from the 20th century.  First to make this style you use your brush on the foreground where you want the darkest colors. Then ass your brush gets drier we head to the back ground more and more. There are techniques like the Baoshi wrinkle that we attempt in this project.

Since I was absent on a field trip while the class did a dyeing lab, I wrote about how you could do this experiment at home with natural ingredients . You can see in the document linked the instructions and my two paragraphs that I wrote.

We created things like baskets, boxes, hearts, or even heart shaped boxes. We used the knowledge from the weaving arts: bonds project to create these. I personally made a heart with the paper weaving.

Weaving is the process of going over and under to lock up the weaved materials together. Chemical bonds are similar however they use electrons. we used colored paper to show the type of bond "Covalent" with weaving. Covalently bonded atoms share an electron so  the papers are sharing 1 strip of red paper. Weaving also creates intricate  patterns if you use different colors.

A mandala is a art piece made of colored sand. Tibetan monks are taught for many years how to make these mandalas, and after every creation they always destroy it. Each mandala is meant to symbolize something everything from the design of the mandala to the color and what the monks are meditating about when making it. The destruction of the art at the end is apart of the finishing touches to the art, because the art is a ritual it is for a deity. They destroy the art as  representation of the cycle of creation and destruction. Completing a mandala allows the monks to become closer with the deity they represented in the mandala.

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In class we learned about the importance of colors and how they affect the art.

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In class today we learned more about  the rule of thirds and the focal points in the rule of thirds. We also practiced using movement in lines to emphasis the focal points and entice the viewer into imagining more about the image. Me and another student in the class both took a look at our 3 examples made and talked about how one image may be more intriguing based off the focal points and movement.

With the assignment we as a class followed a art pieces instructions. Although  maybe underwhelming the real art was the instructions. Learning of this we then had to make our own instructions for our own armpiece and have our classmates follow them. We also  wrote a paragraph on how this piece of art is related to science.

In class we picked our own unique element to make a drawing about luckily I got a cool element, iron. After I did my research on iron about its history and uses as well as properties I chose to create a knight which represents its importance in human history, particularly war. It is portrait of a templar knight clad in armor wielding the two-handed sword called a Zweihander. The art is made completely using one pencil, all the shading is done in pencil and the chainmail is all tiny circles connected to each other. Iron has a metallic glint that we represented by erasing slight bits of the shading on the armor and leaving half the sword pure white to represent the glare you'd get from the side of the bevel closest to the sun. It has a black background surrounding the element name, symbol, and atomic number.
Website I used for my information : Citation 

In the video it shows my robot's ability to go forward backward left and right.  For my robot to traverse the path I would need to edit my code. My code would have to use the forward backward left and right commands at different time and duration intervals. Doing so would allow my robot to go as far forward as I want and to turn at any angle i want and quickly return to moving forward. For the yellow path my robot would have to preform these commands in code form:  Move forward about 3 feet, turn 45 degrees to the right , continue moving forward 4 more feet, take a 90 degree turn right, move a foot and a half forward, take a 90 degree turn left, move 1 foot forward, take another 90 degree left turn, then another foot and a half forward, take a 90 degree right turn, then move 2 feet forward, a 45 degree right turn , and then the final 3 feet forward and that would be the whole path. All this is done  by changing the angle of both the wheels rotation at either 180 or 0. 

the physics that we are concerned with are going to be mass and friction which are actually related. Mass is basically the amount of stuff or weight we have on the robot, this is important because for our robot to move we cannot have too much mass on it. Friction is broken down into two parts; first static friction which is the friction when your object has yet to move. Kinetic friction is when your object has already started moving which is actually less drag on the object then static friction.

Today we added our theme and did ALLOT of research on the time period our story will take place in. Next class we should be able to speed through finishing this and get in done quickly.