In this project MYP Unit Question: How do we visually communicate a concept or theme? Significant Concept: Collage/cut paper can be used to create and express meaning, statement, memory or story. Over the past few weeks, we were making a collage with bits and pieces of papers cut out from magazines or papers. We were [...]

I outlined the mountain with tones: dark blue and light blue.

I worked some at my home the roads and improvement on tones. Putting more tones would look good from far away.

I think I did a good job today. I sketched some to know where my orange car could be. I filled up the grass and the road and planning to color the fence with black. Next class I would like to finish the road and fence and move on to the mountains.

Before the art lesson, I had none done. Though I had all my pieces of colored paper from the magazines ready witch lead me to a good progress after the lesson. I think I was productive in both two periods. With the materials, I made a tree with green color but with lots of tones. [...]

How can we communicate visually? In this Unit, I completed the line drawing with the Mt.Fuji in the background, a road, bushes in the mid ground and a tree in the fore ground. We as a class used marker to complete the task. I referenced photos from photos taken by Mr.Pitter in field studies and [...]

This is my plan for the next piece of art work:  I am going to combine pictures that were taken in field studies. Background- Mountains (Mount Fuji), trees and sky Mid-ground- Vehicles, bushes, street lights, fence, road, grass Fore ground- A tile of a window Where- Field Studies, Hakuba Time- Noon Season- Fall Sound- Vehicles Smell- [...]

I was looking at Leo’s drawing, and I saw some stuffs that he needed to fix.  First of all, the sizes of the grass wasn’t technically correct. I think he got confused on the way the grass should be big when the grass are near and go smaller when it’s far away. He did the other [...]

In class, we have been applying different textures to different 3D shapes. We used different textures to show darkness and lightness to make different tones of the shape. I learned that different tones of the texture can make shapes look 3 dimensional. I used more lines to make one side that is not reflected to [...]

Writing a journal was a whole new thing for me. But it was really fun drawing and having creative idea in my head. I thought a little effort on colors but lots in creativity. I was looking for creativity the whole time which took me a while to finish a page. I think I had [...]