For my artists solve problems final, I had trouble deciding what to do. This was another problem that I solved by listing out several different ideas. Originally, I was going to paint with lemons, as I previously did with strawberries for the past unit. However, after experimenting with lemons, I was feeling discouraged and wanted a different approach. For a couple days, I didn't know what to do, so I just helped Rachel out building her hockey stick table. After a couple more days, I decided that I wanted to do something for my friends birthday as my project, seeing as it was coming up. So I decided to create her name using brands and different things that she liked. I painted a canvas blue, and modge podged the letters in her name to the canvas. The final product was a project for my artists solve problems unit, as well as a birthday present for my best friend.
Another project that we had during this unit was to create art using nature. For my project, I chose to create one of my favorite Pokemon with a dandelion and a couple leaves. First, I drew the outline of bellosom in colored pencil, careful to only outline the parts that needed to be outlined, while the rest would be made out of nature. Next, I sliced open the dandelion and used it for the two flowers that would be on the top of her head. Lastly, I ripped/ cut pieces of the leaves to create her skirt.
Throughout the Artists Solve Problems unit, we were given various problems and needed to find our own way of solving each problem. First, we started with the newspaper towers. We were each put into groups and given a giant stack of newspaper and rolls of tape. The object of the activity was to make a newspaper tower that was as tall as we could make it, but it still had to be free-standing on it's own. Each group took their own approach. My group attempted to make newspaper "cubes" by rolling the paper and then stacking the cubes, however we noticed that this was taking too much time, so we solved this problem by simply just rolling the newspaper and taping it together with a strong base.
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