Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Period 7

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  1. Samuel Ascencio 5/23/11
    For many weeks, many projects have been presented to me as a mission to be accomplished to the end. Out of all those projects that were told to do, only 3 were the ones that caught my attention.
    The 1st project that I like was the collage. I like this project because it includes a combination of many pictures from different magazines. It’s like combining two or three cultures together. Of course that was just an example. This can be an opportunity to express feelings in ways that pictures shows emotions. When the collage is done, it would show and demonstrate what it tries to say.
    The 2nd project that I chose was the piñata. I chose this project because by just hearing the word piñata, it may sound like fun. But it’s not only because of fun. It’s also the skills to the making of the piñata. I like this project because it shows the skills in which comprehension can be shown. Piñatas inside class had different styles and different ways of making the piñata. The order in which needs to follow is important because if one step is changed, the whole project could end into a disaster.
    The 3rd and last project that I chose was a drawing that I also made for my English 1 final. This drawing was my favorite the most. I really liked it because they drawing have a meaning. The meaning of the drawing that when there is pain and suffering, of course during war, death romes around those people, looking for whose lives to take. This drawing expresses the idea in one who believes that war is never the answer. War is only a poison through ones thoughts and actions. Its only pain and suffering that runs through the blood of those who believe war is the answer.
    The similarities between all these projects is that it demonstrates the understanding the skills and comprehending the steps in which the project is completed with correction and done its best. It also shows the knowledge in which the students already know and what they recently studied. Also all projects took time to make.
    The difference is the idea of the making of all the projects. The idea and the comprehension that the students show toward understanding how to make the task. For example, the piñata was made with glue and water, the drawing took time to draw and it has to look identical to the original. Sometimes art can show how you really feel.
    These were 3 projects that I chose because to me, it’s special because I made it. One owns art piece is unique. One owns art supposed to show how your emotions are, and also how your personality is. You tell me how you will show your expression through art. Throughout time that art has been used in many ways; sometimes as a tradition, in this way, the feeling, the emotion that has been expressed can be analyzed and comprehended by the artist and by the viewers.

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  2. Itzchel Fernandez

    Art Final




    Intro: This semester we started with the topic of paper. Paper as everyone knows is made out of trees; paper is very useful for various things. I have learned that you can make many creative objects with one single paper. For example with one paper we could make a dragon using the method of origami.The following are my 3 projects that contain paper as a main material:

    · Miniature Book

    · Mosaic

    · Collage

    Basically all of my projects are made out of paper. The project of the miniature book is just a little book that contains paper inside like the usual ones; the paper is sowed inside like all of the books are. Inside our home made book we could put stuff related to our book theme. My theme was about expressing yourself and your mood, so I splashed colorful paint on a white paper and glued it down as my cover. Inside the book in almost all the pages I made drawings and scribbles with paint as a sign of my emotions and feelings at the time. The second project is a mosaic which is almost like a collage except it has a theme. For example my mosaic is dark landscape with a bright thunder lightning coming out from the sky. You can use colorful paper for this, what makes it a mosaic is that you have to tare paper with your hands and into little pieces and arrange it in a specific way that will cover everything but leave a small space between each piece of paper. The third project is a collage is an art piece that contains random pictures pasted all over the paper, it can have a meaning or not it’s up to you. A collage also contains paper because you cut paper magazines and glue them on the paper.

    What makes all three of these projects similar is that they all contain paper in a way. For example the miniature book is similar to the mosaic because the outer part of the book (where the front and back cover are put on) is made out of cardboard and the mosaic that I made was on top of a squared cardboard. A cardboard is made out of trees just like paper. Another similarity between all three of the projects is that they all have an importance in art and paper is the main material to make them.

    What makes all of these different is that they all have different themes. Another difference is that to make them you do different steps and use different strategies. For example the collage is different from the mosaic because the mosaic needs a theme and a collage dosent unless you pick one. Another difference from these two is that to make a collage you cut out random pictures from magazines or newspapers and paste them where ever you want, but in a mosaic you cut out regular paper (not magazines or newspaper) you can either use colorful paper or not and you have to tare it in little bits without using scissors and glue them in a specific order

    My conclusion about these three projects and this semester’s topic is that paper is very useful. Like my previous paragraphs I used paper to make a miniature book, a mosaic, and a collage. Paper is very useful resource and its reusable which means that we can recycle it and use it again for another thing. Paper is used all around the world for many things, without it almost everything would be different. For example schools and offices use paper as a major source without it we would be using other materials to write on maybe we’d be writing on leaves or stones. Paper is much needed globally and it’s a material that can make all sorts of things.

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  3. Edwin Cruz
    Period 7
    Three evidence of art work
    How to make a drawing bigger? I’m going to be answering that by showing you and explaining you a drawing that Mr. Renner and I made. It is called ‘The three Sculpture’ and the purpose was to mess with the drawing. I did Guernica for my English final which is made by Pablo Picasso. He made that picture to express how he felt about war. My third drawing is the old guitar. It is not my original one but the thing is that the drawing is very interesting. And what’s more interesting is that they have made some x-rays about it and they have found mysterious things about it. Picasso made this drawing in the blue time period.

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  4. Katherine Rodriguez
    Art 7th prd
    May 23, 2011
    Art 7th prd final project
    This semester in art class, was a challenging but fun one at the same time. We had various projects we had to do but there were three projects that stood out to me the most. First it was the hand book we made. Second it was the collage we did from different pictures to make one final collage. The third one was to take a picture and make a distortion to make it look far out the normal. Even though the 3 of them were a bit tricky and confusing, I managed to finish them and the best is that I liked them.
    Fist project I enjoyed making was the handmade book. It was my first book I have ever made. Mr. Renner, our art instructor in doing this project, did an excellent way of explaining the steps and was very helpful when we had a question. The cover of my book is pink and black checkered with a white face of a cat. I chose the face of the cat because I have a big love and immense affection for cats. In the first page of the handmade book, I put a twilight picture. There has to be a touch of the franchise in my book since I also have a strong like to this. It’s a Bella and Edward picture that looks like Edward is going to bite Bella in their prom. The second project I made with my hands was the collage. The target of this activity was to put interesting pictures together to create a new whole picture with various pictures. It has a cat with a ‘don’t mess with Texas’ hat, kittens word, Minnie with a skinny body, my nickname in red letters, fish, the statue of liberty, red cross below three skulls, the word of February which is the month I was born in, lemons because life can be sour sometimes, and the background page has mint candies. The third project is when the class had to choose one or two pictures and make it look like it was a distortion. Once again, one of my pictures was a cat and an owl. The cat represents my favorite animal and the owl my second favorite animal. The cat looks like if it is going to hunt down the owl that is just resting in a sofa.
    Similarities between the 3 art projects are that it has a cat. Since cats play a big role in my life, I want to express my love for cats in my creativity in art. In the handmade book, the cat is made out of white paper, on the collage, it’s a picture, and on the graph, it’s a big drawn cat hunting an owl. Another similarity about the 3 projects is that they all fall in the paper unit. The handmade book is made out of cardboard and the collage and the graph is made out of paper. It was a pleasant paper unit yet also challenging.
    A big difference about one of the projects is the color. The cover of the handmade book has a tint of red which is pink and black is the absence of the colors. The collage has primary colors like the lemon that is yellow; blue the water, and red the letters of my nickname. It also has secondary colors which are orange, green, and purple. The graph main color is blue which a primary color is. Another difference between the projects is that in the graph looking project I used pencil and in the other two projects I didn’t used pencil.
    The paper unit was indeed one of the best ones because I did projects and now they are my possessions that I will treasure. The handmade book, the collage, and the graphing picture made my skills to be more developed and to have patience. Now I can say that with my second year of taking art, I developed my skills, mind, ideas, creativity, and thoughts. I think in more depth in the projects I do now. My projects were beautiful to me but to others it might of not been beautiful. Everyone does have their own likes and dislikes. In art, it is okay to not like everything, but as long as you like your art, that’s all that matters.

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  5. This Year in Art class ive learned alot of new things about art that i didn't know. The 3 projects i chose were the Mosaic, Pinata, and the Collage. I Chose this projects, because i learned alot about them and they were awesome:)

    The Collage was my favorite project, because i got to express my slef and it was fun decorating like putting random pictures inside of it. It was also pretty fun to do and i had never done something like that in my other art classes.

    The Pinata i liked it because it was challenging, plus it was fun to do and you had to do alot of work in it so it would come out pretty good. Sadly i didn't get to finish my pinata because it was alot of work and i had to put alot of paper and effort.

    The Mosaic was one my least favorites, bacause it frustated it me, becacuse we had to cut down pieces of paper piece by piece and that was so not cool, but in the other hand it was fun doing it, because it distracted me and took me to deep thoughts i would always think about when i was working on it.

    Some similarities about this 3 projects, were that each of them neede alot of paper and all of them were awesome to work on. Differences between them were that they were different from eachother and each took different amount of time to finish it.

    My goal for this summer and for the rest of my life, is that i should pay more attention in class and try to focus hard on my projects so i can do alot more better than i did, and also try to finish them on time.

    Thank You Mr.Renner:)
    By: Reyna Martinez

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  6. 7th period art class
    Alma Garcia
    7th period
    ART
    My art work
    Well for my project am going to show the class my 3 projects I did this school year .I think that my projects are really good and some are awesome ,well that’s what I think that there so good art work. One of my art work is a little book that we did in class .It was really hard work but my book came out looking good .We had it to sew with string till the book didn’t fall apart .
    The other art work I did was a Mosaic that was a real cool project I really liked .A Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. Like you just cut little pieces of color paper well you really don’t cut them you tear little pieces .and you just try to put them in the drawing and try to match the colors.
    The last project I did was a collage in my collage I put a lot of colorful things that I like .A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual art. It’s made with a lot of pictures or drawings that you put together to make it like a big huge picture with a lot of different things you like or love.
    All the 3 different art works don’t have anything in common well yes they do because they are art work. But I mean like they all have different meaning .Like the book you have to have passion to put a string in a little needle. And in the mosaic you have to tear pieces of paper and you don’t have to but a needle or have passion to do a mosaic .and for the collage you just cut pictures and glue them together and you’re done .so they really don’t have nothing in common.
    This year I really liked having art class because I learned that I like to express myself by art .All the projects I did this year in art class were really good I worked so hard to do my work and to make it look good like an “expert” .But am not am still getting there.

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  7. Pieces of art:
    1. Book
    2. Piñata
    3. Collage


    In art class we are comparing three pieces of art we did in the classroom. I’m going to compare a piñata a collage and a book we did this semester, they were the most art projects I like during this whole year in art class. Last semester we did projects too but they weren’t that excited to make, they were boring to me, that’s why I didn’t compare one of them in this final.


    Piñata: the piñata was the project that I had more problems to deal with because I was using a balloon for the head and the ears but other people were using cardboard. I was going to Mickey Mouse that’s why I need balloons for the head and ears because Mickey Mouse has a big head and big ears. This project cause me a lot of headaches because always when I was about to finishing putting all parts together that goes on the head like the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth the balloon has to pop up and I had to start all over again so I had a hard time trying not to pop up the balloon, to try to move to next step that was putting paper around the balloons so it can become harder and wouldn’t blow out, the paper we were using were other projects we make last semester, Mr. Renner told us to use those papers so we can recycle and save trees.
    Book: the book was…well I think it was a very easy project to do because it was a book and books aren’t that hard to make. I really like this project a lot because I was so excited that I was going to learn how to make a book my own book made by my hands. Mr. Renner gave us all the materials we will need to make the book, he gave us cardboard, white paper, string, and a needle to make it also Mr. Renner told us how we would do it, he told us that the cardboard was going to be the cover of the book but you can decorate it any way you want it and that the white papers were going to be the leafs of the book. The hard part of making this book was when we had to sow the leaf so they can’t felt out of the cardboard and then we have to glued it too.
    Collage: on the collage we had to look up for any picture we want on magazines and cut them out and put it on a white paper Mr. Renner gave us. The whole point of this was putting a lot of pictures on it in different positions but that were kind of related or pointing to the other pictures is was almost like giving a mystery to the collage with pictures that had a lot in common, this project was really easy to made I didn’t had problems making it.

    These three projects are very similarity; they were made using almost the same materials cardboard and white paper, also the most important they were made by my own and I put a lot of effort on them to accomplished them.
    Some differences in these three projects are that one of them was made with balloons and was bigger than the other ones, and it was an animal, it was Mickey Mouse.


    I feel very proud of myself because I did put a lot of effort on these projects. I really like them very much they were made by my hand I created them.

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  8. Julio Aguirre
    We’ve done many art projects this semester. Some that caught my attention others that didn’t. But the ones I truly like where book, the Piñata, and the college.
    The book was pretty unique because ive always like building things from scratch. We used card board for the cover, white paper for the sheets, thread to joining the cover and sheets. The piñata was pretty cool because you had to use your imagination to create your objective. The body was balloon which we layered with paper mashie and cardboard for other pieces. The collage was pretty nice because you had to create something. We cut pictures and paste them to create a unique picture with different objects.
    The similarities on all projects is that you get to you’re your imagination in order to make it looked unique. Imagination is the key to make something stand out so it truly helps when it come to art. You also had used the materials around you to decorate your object and make it look neat. There might be a limit of materials but you can make anything look nice if you put your mind to it.
    The differences are the materials that I used to make the art piece. The book was created with white paper and cardboard. The piñata was made with paper mashie and balloons. The collage was made of magazine pictures and a piece a paper to glue the pictures on. They are all different but the way they are made is what makes sthem stand out.I truly like art because it lets you be creative and come out with something new. You can be amazed by all the possibilities of art there is.

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  9. Emily Atibu .
    Art 1.
    5/30/2011.
    Mr. Renner.
    Final exam.
    My favorite project for this semester was binding book , collage, and mosaic I enjoyed working on this three project it didn’t have a lot of work to do and I was enjoying cutting the paper into little pieces and glue them together , and the other thing that make this three project more interesting is both of them use paper and glue all you have to do is to glue the papers together
    The binding book all you have to do is to take three or four paper fold them together bind them and then you can put glue on it that is the something with collage just collect picture and start to glue them together and that work at the same time to the mosaic but the most important thing in mosaic is to overlap the papers for you to make the drawing look better because before you start to glue the papers you to draw a picture first and then you can start to glue the papers and that is the similarity and the differences that this three project have , actually binding book help me a lot because I realized that even if I need any book and I just have only papers I can make a book by myself and inside that book I can divide it and make one side for collage and the other side for mosaic and it will look very interesting, collage is a different culture if u put pictures together u will find out that you have come up with a lot of culture.
    I learn in art class that everyone’s opinion is right there is no wrong opinion the more you share ideas is the more you get the opportunity to learn new vocabulary in class

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  10. My name is Jennifer I'm a freshman I really don't like art and, when I saw that I had art I thought it was going to be boring. The first days were boring because, it was the beggining of the school year but, as time pass the class became interesting and fun because, we started doing mini projects some of the projects I didn't like them but, I did them anyways because there were for a grade. finally we made projects I really enjoy doing them but only three of all of the projects we did this year I like. My first favorite project was when we conbine two different countries and make a drawing or a 3-D model of the same characteristics they had. My second favorite project was when we created a book and my third favorite project was when we made a pinata. This three projects I really enjoy doing them and, I had more fun doing this three projects than all of the projects we did all year.
    All this three projects required a lot of materials and time for example, my first favorite projects was kind of hard because, I had to look two things that two countries had in common and, since I wanted to make a 3-D model I wanted to be a good model. Finally after a lot of thinking and reaserch I finally came up with a great model my model had grean mountains made out of green paper, I use branches of real trees and they were my trees for my moel then I cut a cirle and painted yellow since that was going to be my sun, I added some paint too to make it more real. My second project was the book in this one we use six sheets of paper and fold them to make it look like a bunch of paper then we made wholes on them, we use some strings to stick them together after all of that was done we went for a piece of cardboard we made whole too equal size and in the same place so the book wouldn't look weird or anything like that after that we use the piece of string to put everything together after all of that was done you got to decorate your book whatever way you wanted. The last project was the pinata, now this project was the one that required a lot of time because, we use balloons and they pop easily sometimes when you e=were about to finish they will pop and then you had to start over . For this project we use balloons and a lot of glue and paper and most important your imagination. When the balloon was filled with air you had to cover it with paper strips and wet them with glue you had to put a lot of them because, if you put a little the balloon was not going to be hard enough and it might pop but after covering the ballon finally you finish and, had to wait until it was dry. When it was dry you had to color the balloon and then put some especial paper to make it look more alive but, that was only if you wanted too.
    All three projects had something in common and that is that they required a lot of time and effort. This projects had something that was really important for the class and that was to show you ability and to express your own style. It also need it a lot of paper and they were fun doing them you cant't really complain.
    Another thing is that we recycle because, all of the paper that we use to make this projects were form the recicling bin because, they were already use and not to waist paper we use does that were just there in the classroom that were taing space.
    As all projects that we did all year theres always something different, and what makes this three projects different is that we usedifferent materials most of the timefor example for the first project we use branches of trees, for the second project we use string and some needles, for the last project we use a balloon.
    At the end all the hard work and time I put on this three projects that were my favorite ones all year long pay off I got a good grade and I started to like art class. Mr.Renner made it fun when it got to do projects, he was always letting us express ourself because that's what art is all obout expressing yourself. I enjoy art class and I knd of draw a little bit better than when I first started.

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