Our first art project this year was our self portrait. If I am being completely honest, this was the one that I was the most excited for. We had done a hand drawing with pencils very similar to this and it went very well for me. But something about this project just didn't go how I would have like it to go. I did enjoy most of it, but towards the end, I was getting to the point of if I touched it more I just thought I would mess it up. So I ended up turning it in. I really like working with pencils, so this project was still really fun, it just didn't turn out quite how I anticipated it would. I used 2H, HB, 3B, and 6B, pencils to create this drawing. I would say the hardest part was probably the hair and eyes. It took me a while to figure out how to make the strokes in my hair to look realistic. In all, I liked doing this project, but just wish something was a little different.

This was my oil painting finished. Overall, I had a very fun time with it. I was able to use oil paints and mix them to get the right colors. At first, I kind of struggled with getting a bright red. We ended up going with a darker red look, and I really like it. I also layered my paint so that I could get highlights to show up and darks. In the beginning I was really nervous that I wasn't going to be able to get any of my seeds to look like individual seeds. As time went on, I was able to develop individual seeds. In all, I had a lot of fun with this project. I was able to paint more freely and not worry about making it look exact. I am very happy with how it turned out.

I chose to do a highland cow for my scratch art project. I started with a practice piece of paper and was able to feel for how the exacto knife works on the paper. I then did my actually piece of art. I traced the cow onto the paper with pencil then proceeded from there to get the lights and darks. Honestly I didn't really love this project, just because I knew that if I messed up I couldn't go back and fix it or erase it. It kind of stressed me out. Towards the end, I was able to enjoy it a little more. I was getting a little better at going with the flow and not being so timid with it. In the end, I did really like the overall result. Thanks to Mr. Langmaack, my mouth turned out, and everything came together to form this highland cow.

For this project, I started by getting a picture of the vehicle I was going to do and then I traced it onto the paper. This was the most boring part of the whole project for me. After I was done tracing, then I got to start colored penciling. I used a lot of black, white and blue in this project. Occasionally, I threw in some brown and yellow too. I started with the back tire then moved to the grill. This had the most detail and took me the longest, but I would also say it was the most fun part. I had fun trying to make the chrome look shiny and putting in all the darks and lights. Overall, I love how this project turned out and I had a lot of fun with it along the way.