I made a clay jar and after it dried I glazed three coats on it. Then I painted one coat of funky spots on the jar. I liked the way it turned out but I did not know the color would turn out so bright. The reason I did this design because I thought it was a cool unique design. The bright colors remind me to stay positive and have a joyful heart. Something that I would do different would be the shape of the jar, I did not really like how I shaped the clay.

I made a clay bowl and this is probably one of my favorite projects so far. I loved the way it turned out. I started out with a plastic bowl and covered it with paper towels, I drew my design on the paper towels so I knew what to follow. Then I had clay coils and I cut the clay into tiny pieces about the same size and started making my design. It took quite a while to make the design part but once I was finished I took a long piece of coil and finished it off by wrapping it all the way around the bowl. I tried to clean it up and smooth it out as best as I can and then I blow dried the bowl and it went into the kiln. After the kiln I painted three coats of white paint on the bowl and then it went in the kiln again and it turned out great.

When I started this project I thought I would not like watercolor, but turns out I actually ended up enjoying it. For my watercolor I painted a jellyfish. I picked a jellyfish that I liked and then printed it. I started by coloring on the back of the printed copy with a pencil. Then I started tracing the jellyfish onto a piece of paper and once I was done then I traced over it with a black pen. I did the background before I did anything on the jellyfish. After the background was dry I started on the jellyfish and every day I added more and more layers. I made some parts of the jellyfish darker and the other parts only had a few layers of water color. To finish it off I added some white pen to some parts of the jellyfish to add something different. I really ended up enjoying this project, it was fun to learn how to do water color.

For my print making project I picked a peacock. To start the project I had to go on the computer to make the peacock reversed and change it to black and white. Then once it was printed I colored on the back of the printed copy with pencil and traced it onto a rubber stamp. Then I outlined it with a marker on the stamp so I can see the peacock more clearly. Once I was done tracing it on the stamp I carved out all the white pieces. I would say the tracing and carving part took a lot of time because there was so much detail. Then the fun part came and I got to print a whole bunch of peacocks. I printed colorful ones, plain ones and different papered ones. I had a lot of fun with stamping part. Then I picked out my best printed peacocks and put them into a book. I really enjoyed this art project because it was a lot more different compared to the other ones I did.

To start building my foam box, we got a piece of paper with the measurements that we needed to cut out of foam. Once I measured and cut out all my foam pieces, I picked out a piece of paper that I liked. Then I started working on my name, to do that I traced my name with a font that I liked and stretched the copper until my name bubbled out. Then I put the box together, I glued 4 sides onto a base and then there was a whole process to put the paper around the box. After the box part was finished then I worked on the lid and I cut out a hole so my name would show and then I glued all the foam pieces together. Then I put the paper around the lid and it was finished. I really enjoyed this project because it was a simple project and if you followed directions there was no way you could mess up. It was a fun project to finish the year off.