For the "ChemVAS Typography" project, I learned how to use the elements of art and digital tools, incorporating them into this collage. I used digital images, color, textures, and lines. The pictures I included were test tubes, paintbrushes, the periodic table of elements, paint, and a graduated cylinder. The other art objects used were paint and a spirograph. This project was interesting because it helped me become more creative in my approach to art. I realized that you don't always have to use the same colors or textures — anything can be considered art if you deem it worthy.

(Drawing created on Sketchpad)

This assignment was to use your assigned element from the periodic table and create a piece of digital artwork that connects with the element. For this project, I curated my idea by looking up the harmful effects of fluorine (damage in plants and declined growth). The difficult part of this project was trying to make sure the right tools were used so I wouldn’t delete important items and have to start over again. The easier part was adding color and images. However, if I had the opportunity, I would use different image. The principles of designs used were color, value, space, and shape. Throughout this project, I was focused on  the colors, images, and layers I could use to create the scene of death in plants. In the end, my creativity created an artistic final draft that I'm pleased with.

(Digital artwork created on Photopea.com)

For the "My Favorite Things" project, I created a bracelet embroidered with hearts, along with a slab of clay featuring line scorings. I made this because I love buying and wearing bracelets, stacking them, and coordinating different ones. The process was fairly easy — I simply created small clay balls. The hearts were made by shaping two pieces of clay using silt (which was also used for the clay balls). 

This project connects to chemistry because, in chemistry, you never know exactly what the result of an experiment will be; you just do it, and I didn’t expect the outcome to turn out the way it did. It’s also related to ceramics because art doesn’t have to follow any specific rules. You can create whatever you put your mind to, as art is art, regardless of the circumstances. The difficult part was making sure I scored the clay correctly, as that wasn’t my strongest skill. I also think I could have improved my color choices since I didn’t know the colors would change when the clay dried. In conclusion, I’m proud of the result, especially since this is only my second time working with clay.

This slideshow shows a depiction of charcoal drawings made in class and charcoal drawings made throughout centuries. It shows gesture drawings which depict someone's posture, fruit drawings that show different positions, a Chinese landscape drawing that shows architecture outside, and a half portrait of a person. Each drawing shows different shadings and shapes, each of them unique to one another. Lastly, it shows the explanation of charcoal and how we were able to create these artistic images and it shows different well known artist that have created drawings from charcoal.

In this picture, one of the designs I used was lines. The black lines outline the shape, with a variety of different lengths. I envisioned this picture because I knew I wanted the entire page to be covered and wanted to incorporate lines. Once I had that idea, it occurred to me that I should trace a shape, so I chose a triangle. Later, as I looked at the drawing, I noticed that the lines came together to form the outline of a pentagon. I decided to outline additional shapes in the remaining space. Finally, I felt that the drawing looked incomplete, so I added a variety of colors, outlined, and filled in the shapes and lines.

This slideshow demonstrates the process of creating my own tattoo. First, we discussed the types of tattoos we might want in the future and explored different tattoo styles online. This was the idea development phase. Next, we made the lampblack ink, which is shown in the slideshow through pictures. Afterward, we created three draft drawings. Finally, we designed the final tattoo.

For this drawing, we used a bicycle as inspiration and depicted it from different perspectives in three different ways, using three different colors. This creates a cubist effect, displaying the object from multiple angles and forming a collection of fragments. It's like seeing several aspects of the same thing happening all at once.

This is my art painting. To achieve this result, I mixed different paints together. For the background/base color, I combined yellow, pink, blue, white, and black. I used a straw to spread the paint across the entire canvas. Then, I used a popsicle stick to drizzle different colors on top, including green, blue, white, and pink. This project relates to density because different amounts of glue and paint were used to create various colors, which resulted in different densities. The most dense part was the base color due to the mixture of different colors and measurements. The least dense part was the white, as it wasn’t mixed with other colors, making it more liquid-like than the others.

"Deeply Rooted" is a PBL project that is based on the movie "The Woman King".

For this project, we first learned about why the Statue of Liberty turned green. This happened due to oxidation, a reaction between copper and oxygen that forms copper oxide. After learning about this, we decided to do a similar project in class. We held a small sheet of copper over a flaming candle, and the oxygen from the flame caused the copper sheet to change color. For my copper sheet, I slowly moved it back and forth to create the effect you see in the photo.

My experience with this group project was very positive. We were able to bond as students and friends while also learning about each other's cultures. The project went well, and we organized the lesson effectively. We managed to summarize the key points from several pages into a paragraph or two, while still creating a creative and engaging lesson. The activities were entertaining and complemented the chapters we covered. The class seemed to enjoy it as well—they were laughing and collaborating together. The only challenge was that the class got off task a few times, which was a bit difficult to control.

Teaching the class was more enjoyable than reading the book because interacting with others is more fulfilling than reading small text and lengthy pages, trying not to fall asleep. Engaging with each other is better for both the body and the mind. Overall, it was a great experience and very entertaining.

This is a poem that I created that I feel best describes my personality, it also includes audio.

In geometry, for the "Deeply Rooted" PBL project, we created stained glass using different geometric shapes. We began by drawing the outline of the stained glass on a glass sheet. Then, we used different acrylic paints to create a pattern of colors on the glass. The design was inspired by a pattern of shapes (parallelograms, squares, rectangles, triangles, etc.), and I wanted to incorporate some of my favorite colors: pink, blue, and white.

The three elements of art I used were shape, color, and texture. The three principles of design I used were pattern, proportion, and balance. What we've been learning connects to proofs because we had to ensure that the qualities of each shape were correct. For example, in parallelograms, opposite sides are congruent, so the opposite sides had to match up. Also, opposite angles in a parallelogram are supplementary, meaning one angle was obtuse and the other was acute, and together they had to equal 180 degrees.