Better late then never:)

After a very productive day I had yesterday it gave me motivation to ask my brother some questions that I was curious about even before my project started. I called him and I asked him if he had time to talk. I asked him 3 simple questions in our phone call.

Me: so how come you never finished the mural you wanted to do during your senior year?
Phil: I had everything done, the image was approved, I set up a location, and had all the paint bought and ready to go. The reason why we couldn’t start was because a lady in the school district (he didn’t remember her name) was going to set up training for scaffolding so we could use a scaffold to paint on the walls, which never happened.
Me: Well where did all the paint go?
Phil: After my class graduated they used it to paint benches and rails outside the school.
Me: Do you know where your original image is?
Phil: Yeah last time I was home I pulled it out and it’s on the bookshelf before you enter my room.

*PHIL'S ORIGINAL IMAGE ABOVE*
--->kinda like mine right???? ;)

Important Dates!

 May 25th- After school working on the sketch being on the mural (Judy's Room)

                28^th-Prom dress shopping(this is important too)

June 3^rd-First Student Evaluation (5PM)

                7^th-My Project Presentation!!!!

                10^th-Second Student Evaluation (3:45PM)

                14^th-Econ Local Regents

                18^th-Prom

                 25^th-GRADUATION!!!

A forgotten post

I’m working extra hard to make the ending of my project less stressful as possible. Therefore I am trying to get organized with things I should have done during my project instead of now. So since I’m making up for lost time I was looking through my blog for links/ people that I could use when I get my Bibliography & Research Commentary started. After looking at all my posts I have done this year for my project I found this link from Howcast.com that should have been posted but wasn’t. There was no writing in the draft post just the link so I must have forgotten about it. WHOOPS!

Well since I have it now let me explain why this link is so important. Since I am not an artist I needed a way to transfer my image for paper to a panel. One day I was looking through different videos to see different ways I could do that and this one looked the easiest ;) when I do my mural I will do different posts to explain how I am doing things like in the video. At this time in my project I am looking into video posts and little notes to explain in more detail. I also have to keep in mind that my video posts cant drag on forever because I wouldn’t want to bore my readers.

http://www.howcast.com/search?q=How+to+Paint+a+Mural+With+a+Projector

Extra Help

One of my classmates came up to me today who is in the AP art class at my school and asked me if her class could help me with painting my mural and of course I said yes! This is great; this will take a lot of stress off the shoulders if I have some artists on my side when it comes to putting the Bear and Skunk on the panel. Plus the AP art class is for Seniors ONLY!!! MUAHAHAH! So when the panel arrives we can get started on it and this will be used as their end of the year project. I see no problem receiving some help from my fellow classmates when I could really use it!

If they wont, I will

The first time I called Cayuga Lumber they said that they would call me on Monday to give me my total. Well Monday rolled around….no call so I called them and asked them if they figured out a price range for my panel, and they replied that they will call me back in an hour. Well more than an hour rolled around and no call. So I called and finally they connected me to John who is the guy that helped Mary Beth when she needed a panel.

He told me that the panel that I need (that is approved my school district) is a fire retartent , and  formaldehyde free panel which costs $93. It will arrive in about a week so when that gets in my hands I have to start right away. Time is very limited!

Red Flag 5

How much time did you spend on your project?
With baking and mentor meeting and being at the bake sale i would say well over 20 hours! this week was so busy! i am very happy with the out come of my bake sale:D i would say this week was "time well spent" ;)

What did you do that was hands on? 
Bake sale, baking, frosting, mentor meeting.

What research did you do?
Well, what i learned about the bake sale was that High school students at my school LOVE cupcakes!

Did you meet with your mentor? What did you talk about?
Yes, we met on Wednesday this week because of the bake sale on a Tuesday. One of my goals is to get a final sketch done before we come back to school over Easter break....also to catch up on journal entries ;)
Do you have at least 3 journal entries?
Not yet, but i wrote everything down, i just need to add it to my blog

Were you in class this week?
I will be today but i wasn't on Tuesday.

What are your plans for next week?
sleep, journal, and sketch

LONG DAY!!!!!!

Over the past few months i have been stage managing the spring musical "The WIZ"...and what a stressful time that was for my life and my project. today was the last performance so i am allowed to breathe now;). while i was stage managing the show i asked my boyfriends mom (who is an AMAZING baker) to help me out during my time of need. She was very excited when i asked her to be apart of my project. When i went back to her house she taught me how to frost cupcakes and turns out I'm kinda good at it. I added red sprinkles for some school spirit and made a sign with the cost of the bake goods and what the bake sale is for.

• cookies 50
• brownies 27
• muffins 24
• cupcakes 48-But now there is now only 47 cupcakes because we decided to split one because they looked yummy....and they were!!!!!!

So tomorrow i will set up my bake sale starting second period which means i need to get out of bed before i normally do...but no big deal right??? And i will sell 3rd and 6th period and my boyfriend is willing to help me during 4th and 5th when i have classes. i will report back tomorrow on what a sell and how much i make, WISH ME LUCK!!!

Zwackart

On March 7th I went to go see my art teacher Judy to ask her if she knew anyone in the community that would be able to give me a few pointers/ help with my project ideas. Judy wasnt there, but I managed to talk to another art teacher. I asked her if she had any advice for me. She gave me a website: http://www.zwackart.com/, because Anne Marie, who created the website, helps out in the community. She helped some students with murals in Spencer, so hopefully she will be willing to help me out. Her phone number is on the website, and I called and left a message. Hopefully she will get back to me, so that I can tell her about my project.

Value Sketch

While surfing videos on youtube for tips on mural painting, I came across this "expert village" video that gave information about the steps involved in the mural making process. After watching this video I was reminded of the meaning of composition. Composition is the organization of shapes in the picture, which keeps people looking at the painting for more than a few seconds.The reason why composition is so important is because you want people to view and understand the meaning of the painting. When planning my mural, I need to keep composition in mind. If I have organization in my shapes, it will make the viewers understand it better because it won't be scattered. 
Another interesting step on the mural making process is the importance of a value sketch. A value sketch is a very basic idea of what the outcome will look like. When we return fom our February break I plan to sit down and talk to my art teacher at school, to come up with a way to create a survey to hand out to my classmates. She has had experence with creating and organsing these types of surveys in previous project that she did awhile back . The point of this is to get a basic idea of what what well be decided in the final outcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS4Lj-TefrI&feature=fvw