When Mr. Sands informed us that we were going to be working with pastels, I internally groaned. I despise pastels. At least, I thought I did. I didn't exactly have great experiences using pastels. I always had the sudden urge to slam my head against my desk repeatedly, or.... Yeah, just that. (wowie i really don't like pastels ok they never work for me just trust me) ------------- Now, our main objective was to observe any given object (a.k.a. apples and oranges that Mr. Sands provided), and use pastels to illustrate it. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy; am I right? Nope. Apples, and oranges are really difficult to draw, okay? They have a weird shape, they are too shiny and I just don't like the way they... exist. They're just weird! And pointing out the obvious, a bit cliche. Come on, where's the spontaneity? So... I decided to go off memory and draw a peach! Oops! Yeah I know, I didn't exactly follow the directions, but hey, I drew a pretty good peach. P.S. Peaches taste better than oranges anyway! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another pastel experience! Whoo ! I was only able to come up with this piece because of daydreaming. If I hadn't been daydreaming, I wouldn't have
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As I stepped into the strange classroom, I had no idea what was in store for me. Our teacher hit us with sarcastic comments and deadpanned expressions, setting him out of the crowd of bullheaded teachers. Then I knew; I was going to love this class.
The first assignment that Mr. Sands threw our way, was something I definitely did not expect. He introduced us to the word 'tantamount'. The word meaning: 'having the equivalence in seriousness to; virtually the same as'. He wanted us to create replicas of any given object, with any materials available, within the time span of an hour. Mr. Sands then pulled out a box of misplaced items, and set us loose. When I came up to the pile of items, a 1980's landline phone doused in pink and blue paint caught my eye. Grabbing it, I went back to my desk, and began working with my group. I measured the original pieces to the phone, and scaled it down to about 1/3 the original size. I then cut the pieces needed for the structure out of cardboard, and used an exact-o knife to do so. My group members found other materials to imitate the cord, paint, and buttons on the piece. Finally, I am proud to say, that we were successful in reproducing the blotchy phone. Cool, right? |
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