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

Time Flies when you’re Having Fun

Turns out I did the creative assignment earlier than I expected it being due and got it done a week earlier. This is good because today in class I saw what needs to be done before my presentation which is on the 7^th of June at 3:45. AHHHHHHH!!!!!!---we also picked student evaluation dates but I wasn’t able to this class but I will next class.

Some of the things that need to be done are a Narrative essay, a story about my WISE project, a Bibliography & Research Commentary and I need to do a Distribution of Materials. If I learned anything from my portfolio experience, I am NOT putting this off until the last minute. Therefore I set personal due dates to get things done in time so there is less stress to deal with when they are due. These dates might change because of interferences in my schedule but i will try my hardest to make it happen. This leaves me room to ask for help/ or if I need revisions. So in a way I’m learning from my experience in this class and taking step into improving my way of working.

How can you tell if it’s a Mural?

After looking at his website I saw a lot of inspirational things that reminded me about my project in some ways. “Just as murals are not completed in isolation…” This is one of the things I found out early in my project was that sometimes you need peoples help in order to get things done. That is why I am allowing any students who wants to help, can help. This will bring people together to do something fun and a great way to meet new people.

When I was reading this website it was talking about is the context of a mural and this is the list it came up with….

• Social context- Who are the people who made it? How does it fit into the community? 
• Physical context-Where is it? 
• Political context- What is it's purpose? Does it sell, promote, inform, inspire?
• Historical context- When was it made? What difference does that make? 
• Don't get caught up in what you think the artist was thinking when they created the mural. Talk about what you know from your eyes and from your background in mural analyzing.

*Once my project is completed/ started I will reflect on these questions in a later post to see what my answers are like for my mural.*

http://www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/student/mural/studentguide.html

Where did murals originate from?

Spring Break Day 2,
In ancient times, cavemen/ cave women were mural artists. They created picture stories on the insides of their caves, and few of those stories are still visible to us now. 
-----While researching this topic i also found that some art historians in 2005 argue that murals first paintings created on walls date back at least 30,000 years ago. Prehistoric and ancient cultures created the "first murals". They can be found in caves in Lascaux, France, and locations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Greece and Rome. 


So really if you ask me i would say that murals originated from cave people:)

http://www.freearticlesinc.com/view_article-id-21051-at-Mural-Artists-Wanted---Nowadays-You-Gotta-Be-More-Than-a-Caveman.html

http://www.homebase8.net/webquest8/Communication_Arts/Murals/

What does this word mean????

Spring Break Day 1
Today is the first full day of my spring break and i am sticking to my promise of not being lazy. So i figured i would start with one of the easy questions on my list, what does the word mural mean? So i surfed (wow that's an old term) dictionary.reference.com and browse the word "mural" and this is what i got. The word mural is both a noun and an adjective.

–Noun

• a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.

• a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall.

• a wallpaper pattern representing a landscape or the like, often with very widely spaced repeats so as to produce the effect of a mural painting on a wall of average size; a trompe l'oeil.----what is that?!

 (WOW that was easy) The funny thing about this question is that i kinda knew what was going to show up when i looked up the word mural. Its a a no brainier ; )

Fine I’ll do It!!!!!!

For the two people that follow my blog, I have decided not to be lazy during my spring break. I made a promise to Ms. M that I would do research over break, and I’m sticking to it. I know that this will be hard but I have come up with a solution to motivate me during spring break and get some research done. I came up with a list of five questions (one per day). Now these questions are not random questions, these questions are the ones that have been floating around in my head ever since I started this project.

1. How can you tell if its a mural?
2.   What does the word mural mean?
3. Where did murals originate from?
4. Who is the most famous person who ever created a mural? (I think I know this one)
5. When did the United States see that murals were important? 

(who, what, where, when, why)---Easy right;)