1. Week 1 Feb 1, 2023. Edublog Set Up
2. This was the first week of Art Studio 11, we did a scavenger hunt which helped us get to know the people around us.
3. My biggest struggle this week was starting the new semester and getting used to all the new classes and being around new people.
4. My biggest success of this week is meeting new people and reconnecting with people I already knew.
5. My goal for next week is to start on something art related and see how it goes because I haven’t painted or done an art project in years. I used to be good at art, and I want to know if I’m still good at it or not.

Week 2, February 9, 2023. ATC Cards Journal entry & 2 cards check in (collage, photomontage) 

1. I worked on my collage and finished that, it was meant to be a sunset and it looks like a sunset which I’m happy about and I think that I did a pretty decent job. I call it “A Fragment of The Sun”. A Fragment of The Sun represents the principles of art by showing unity by bringing all these tiny pieces to make this image, movement/rhythm in a way because of the wave like segments in the sky and water of this piece. This ATC represents the elements of art by showing colour, taking advantage of space, and shapes. I worked on my photo montage and finished that as well. I really like this 2nd ATC of mine. I call it “Don’t Want To”. The word reluctant is about how the majority of humanity is reluctant/unwilling to think about pollution and environmental problems and they think more about finding joy and pleasure in materialistic things. Eventually humanity has to realize that this earth that we have is very precious and if we continue to ignore the pollution we are speeding the process of, we aren’t going to have a beautiful clean earth to live on anymore. Don’t Want To represents the principles of art by showing movement, and emphasis on a greater meaning, as well as juxtaposition of the fire and danger in the background and then the peaceful person and roses. The elements of art are colour, and advantage of space. I finished the photo montage, 2nd ATC on Friday.
2. My biggest struggle of the week was probably the time crunch of getting things done one time and making sure I’ll be able to have my 2 ATC cards done by Friday, which I think I will have them done by Friday. Another struggle was how quiet and peaceful the atmosphere was in the early morning causing me to try to stay awake. Also, figuring out a theme or message for the photo montage was a struggle because I had to think about it for a bit, and as you can see in the pictures provided that I changed my photo montage on the way.
3. My biggest success of the week was doing art after many years and actually seeing all these different and cool styles of art and trying it out myself.
4. My goal for next week is to do a good job and start the life below water.

1. This week I worked on the stencil project. I moved onto the spray-painting process and it’s nearly getting done! All the time-consuming work focusing on those details on the stencils and all the time it took to carefully cut it out was all worth it in the end because the lines of my underwater banner project ended up pretty nice and sharp. Those details also made the project look really nice and everything came all good together.
2. My biggest struggle of the week was the stencil paper sticking to the paint on the banner (drying process), another struggle was getting things done fast and so if I had more time things would have looked a little cleaner, but it still looks pretty nice. Another struggle was spray paint running out but I problem solved and instead of waiting for the next shipment of spray-paints I decided to utilize what we had and use other colours similar to the colours I was using to get the project done by Friday for the gallery.
3. My biggest success of the week was getting a lot of progress done on the underwater stencil art project. I got all the stencils done and cut out, I got a little plan in my head on how I wanted everything to look like on the banner and went with that plan, and I problem solved through all the problems that came through my way. Everything turned out nice, and I really liked the end result.
4. My goal for next week is to work on my inquiry project and start painting!

Week #12, May 4, 2023. Journal Entry (I worked on the linoleum printmaking project) 

1. This week I worked on the linoleum printmaking project. I started by creating a plan and sketching some drafts of what I was envisioning. I finally chose snakes and a rose, and it fit in the flora and fauna criteria. I need to finish my sketch then transfer it onto the linoleum so I can start carving.
2. My biggest struggle of the week was trying to figure out what to do for the project and creating a better final sketch to be the one that gets transferred onto the linoleum.
3. My biggest success was getting what I envisioned onto paper, and I need to continue it as the flora part is done but for the fauna part, I still need to draw the snake.
4. My goal for next week is to get some progress done on my linoleum printmaking project and move onto the carving process of it.

Week #13, May 11, 2023. Journal Entry (I worked on the linoleum printmaking project) 

1. This week I worked on the linoleum printmaking project. I transferred my drawing onto the linoleum by having it get printed off first then using acrylic gloss to put on the linoleum and then transfer the drawing. After the acrylic dried, I had to rub off that paper with a damp towel and then the ink stays on the linoleum to give an idea of where to carve. The inked parts are to not carve, and the white empty space is what you have to carve, depending on your plan. I started carving some parts as well. It was hard to carve at first, and it’s hard every time you switch a blade and have to figure out how to use it and how it carves, but you figure it out along the way.
2. My biggest struggle of the week was when carving the paper that was stuck to the linoleum would always get caught in the blade and that would bother me because I wouldn’t know where to carve and where to not.
3. My biggest success was getting progress done and figuring out how to carve things out as it was my first time doing this printmaking linoleum project and it was a little difficult to do.
4. My goal for next week is to continue working on my linoleum printmaking project and nearly have it done.

Week #14, May 18, 2023. Journal Entry (I worked on the linoleum printmaking project) 

1. This week I continued to work on the linoleum project and started this ambiguous abstract art project. I worked on carving more of the linoleum, making it sharper, and more detailed. I also worked on this new assignment on Wednesday where we had to take off our shoe and draw it on a piece of paper from 4 to 5 different angles and then emphasize certain parts and shapes from the resulting artwork and see how it turns out.
2. My biggest struggle was trying to make the lines look clean, good, and figure out how much to carve in terms of depth for the linoleum.
3. My biggest success this week was getting more progress done for the linoleum printmaking project and nearly finishing it.
4. My goal for next week is to finish my linoleum printmaking project and finally get to the stamp to ink to paper process.

Life Below Water – Stencil Process – Journal Entry 

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5. REFLECTION: I previously reflected on this project somewhere above on this page and made a journal entry but this one is for the teams assignment. The process was a rollercoaster. The drawing process was a little difficult and took time as you had to envision what you had in mind and then put that onto paper in a way that you will like it and it will work with becoming a stencil. The drawing process took a lot of thought for sure and consideration to make sure that it was perfect, and it wouldn’t get messed up if cut out. For the cutting out process, it was pretty intense because you had to carefully and slowly and with pressure cut out those pieces with an x-acto knife. It took a lot of time, and it was kind of the annoying part of the whole process. Then finally the spray-painting part was pretty fun. The spray-painting process was the most enjoyable out of all of the processes as it was satisfying watching that paint go on there and become what you had envisioned. The smell of the spray paint was nice too, even though it’s supposed to be bad. The annoying thing about the spray-painting process was that the paint wouldn’t dry too fast, or it would and then once you put on the paper on top of it to use another stencil then the paper would kind of stick to the paint on the banner and kind of mess it up depending on the weather. Most of the days it was pretty hot and so the paint would dry faster but on humid days the paint wouldn’t dry as fast. Overall, the most enjoyable process was the spray-painting process and I loved how everything turned out. In the end my banner also made it in the art gallery in poco for the life below water project and it was a good achievement, so I was pretty happy about this project.
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Flora and fauna lino print (purpose) – Journal Entry

I made a couple of rough sketches before I decided on what I wanted my print to look like. For my flora I went for roses because I love specifically red roses and love how they symbolize passion, and love. For my fauna I chose a snake because a snake represents danger, fear, power. These two things combined are just beautiful and strong together although there may be a meaning to red roses and snakes together and that meaning is temptation, but I don’t see it like that, rather I see it as grace, power, and confidence in oneself. Below is the good copy of what I used for my print, one being normal, and the other inverted. I planned to have a pretty big drawing so that there is little negative space (white/empty space) and there was more positive space (black/drawing). I changed some of the negative and positive spaces once it got to the lino as it was a little too difficult to carve it out, so I changed things around to make it easier but still make sense and look original to the drawing.

Flora and fauna lino print (process) – Journal Entry

Week #15, May 25, 2023. Journal Entry (I worked on the linoleum printmaking project and the ambiguity art) 

1. This week I worked on the ambiguity art and the linoleum printmaking project. My goal for last week was to finish my linoleum printmaking project but we all as a class had to work on the ambiguity art so I had to work on that as well. Tomorrow I’m going to make sure to finish my linoleum printmaking art and finally move onto the ink process so I can get that done and focus on my inquiry project as there are only 5 weeks of school left.
2. My biggest struggle was time management and wanting to get the lino print done sooner but as it is a time-consuming project, I have to be patient about it and get it done tomorrow and get through some progress for today.
3. My biggest success was learning something new which was the ambiguity art. I learned how to define certain lines, show value in certain places, the triangle method, shading, and practiced sketching something random that we have on ourselves everyday.
4. My goal for next week is to work on my inquiry project and get as much progress done as I can. Another goal is to catch up on assignments for the flora and fauna lino print project.

Week #16, June 1, 2023. Journal Entry (I worked on the printing part of my linoleum printmaking project and finished that, and I started painting for my inquiry project)

1. This week I worked on finishing my linoleum printmaking project. I first had to put some finishing touches by carving a little and making things sharper and cleaner, then you had to roll black ink on a glass with a roller until it sounded like velcro and tacky. Then you roll the ink onto the linoleum and then stamp the inked linoleum onto a draft paper and repeat the process until you feel confident. I ended up with 3 drafts then went into the good copy with 2 good copies on a more quality paper. After that was done, I worked on my inquiry project and reviewed the colour theory rules (tint, tone, shade) (mixing a little of the complimentary colour to make it more natural) after that I started painting the sky and manipulated the colour by making the right side louder and making the sky how I want because in the painting the bottom left side is loud with a big flower.
2. My biggest struggle was trying to get the painting started with the sky. I had to review colour theory, the paint would dry fast, the brown background would show through and make the paint look bad so I had to go over with some layers but had to let it dry because it just wouldn’t work if it didn’t dry. The sky is something that I think I still need to work on.
3. My biggest success this week was getting the linoleum printmaking done and getting the ink on the lino stamped onto the paper. It looked so good in the end and I didn’t expect it to look so clean and good like that because the carving seemed so messy. I was really happy in the end and it was a success.
4. My goal for next week is to work more on my inquiry project and get more progress done on that. Another goal is to have done all my assignments on teams and get caught up with that.

Week #17, June 8, 2023. Journal Entry (I worked on my painting for my inquiry project)

1. This week I worked on the painting I am doing for my inquiry project. I at first wanted to make a series of three or two nature in Afghanistan inspired paintings but due to not having enough time I had to cut it to one to make sure I get that done. Even so I still might not even finish the painting I am currently working on it right know and it seems like it’s very time consuming and it will take some time before it’s done but we’ll see at time passes by if it will be done or not before school ends.
2. My biggest struggle was time management and knowing how long it takes to finish the painting or how long it takes to finish a section. Another struggle was keeping in mind colour theory and mixing colours to match the colours I needed from the image. Another struggle was taking lots of time to think about my placement, blending, and choosing the correct shades.
3. My biggest success was getting some progress done even though I missed some classes this week I still managed to get some progress done and do something.
4. My goal for next week is to work more on the painting, work harder, and stay focused. Another goal is to take more pictures of my artwork as I forgot to take a lot of progress photos for this week.

Week #18, June 15, 2023. Journal Entry (I continued working on my painting for my inquiry project)

1. This week I worked on my inquiry project which was a painting of an opium flower field in Afghanistan with scenic mountains in the back. I made some good progress on it. I really made sure to keep the canvas balanced by adding more depth and value by making the sky darker on the right top side of the painting to balance with the bottom left big dark purple, burgundy flower. By having depth on one side and on the other as well it balances well and looks good when you look at it, if I would have just kept the sky all light colours like the original image too much attention would just go to the flower on the left and the left side would be much heavier than the right side making it feel a little unbalanced. I also cut and prepared my two other ATC cards to go right in the ATC cards sleeve and collection of 9 cards. One was from the ambiguous art I did some time ago and the other ATC card was a cut out of the linoleum printmaking art. For the ambiguous ATC card it’s called “Ambiguous Lines” and the elements shown within the card are line (the lines to create the ambiguous art), shape (lines connecting to create shape), colour and value (black and white shading to emphasize certain parts). For the principles of “Ambiguous Lines” there were emphasis (certain parts of the art was shaded darker and, in the colour, black to make it heavier and put more emphasis on those parts), and contrast (black and white). For my other ATC card “Roses and Snakes”, the elements of art shown are colour and value (black and white), shape (had to connect all the parts that I had on the linoleum to create shapes and pop out and carve the rest so that the print is shown, and texture (paper has this texture, as well as the lino print itself was filled with texture and all sorts of dents and carved pieces to make it the image that I was going for.
2. My biggest struggle was keeping in mind colour theory, mixing colours to get the right shade, tone, tint. Another struggle was thinking about my placement and feeling right about it, and that took a lot of time to think about then put into the canvas.
3. My biggest success was getting a good amount of progress done. I first put a base layer or colours on there to get aa picture of where things are on the painting and then I slowly started on the left top side to add more colours and blend in everything and paint it so that it looks like the image I am trying to paint with a twist of my own choices.
4. My goal for next week is to nearly get done my inquiry project and finish it. I want to make as much progress as I can and if I can get it done with as soon as possible because the school year is ending. Another goal is having my assignments on teams done.

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Week #19, June 22, 2023. Journal Entry (I continued working on my painting for my inquiry project)

1. This week I worked on my painting for my inquiry as usual and I took it home to do some painting and get it done by Friday because Friday is the last day of school and I have to get it done. Today I am going to take it home again to finish it and have it completed for tomorrow (Friday).
2. My biggest struggle this week has been time management and once again taking too much time on my painting. It takes a lot of time to blend things and make things look nice. I want it to look as realistic as possible to the image and I want it to look amazing but realizing that there’s not much time left I must hustle and quick up and get things done faster. I also have a lot of assignments that I have completed but need to get them on teams and my edublog.
3. My biggest success this week was the progress I made for my painting. I speeded things up and just have some small details that need to be done and it’ll be done for tomorrow.
4. My goal for next week is to have everything completed and handed in as high school is now ending for me.

Long Term Inquiry (PROCESS)

So originally, I had planned for make a series of 3 paintings for my inquiry project, all of them being natural scenery in Afghanistan. Though changes were made due to not having enough time and so it ended up with one painting for my inquiry project which is this painting of mountains and a field of opium flowers.

I have had struggles with time management and choosing colours, to adapt I made sure to speed things up as well as take home my painting so I could finish it at home out of school hours. Another thing I did to help with the choosing of colours and which colours I needed was using the colour theory paper and put that right beside me to look at which colours I can use and how it would look to have it turn into a tint, tone, or shade and how it would look more natural if you mix it with some of its complementary colour.

Collaborative Studio Maintenance Project 

1. Studio Maintenance Identification– Identify a section of the clay studio that requires maintenance and take a photo of it. What is the name of the  item, space, product, or tool? What is this item, space, product, or tool used for? What does it look like, versus how it should look like.

So, we found the back of the studio where the bases of the clay, sponges, and a bunch of other pottery equipment where and we decided to clean that space. This space is used for storing pottery equipment used to help the artists create pottery. Below is a photo on how it looked like before the cleanup.

1. Division of Tasks and Process– How will you collaboratively maintain this area? Who will do what? Take process images of the maintenance going on. At least 3 photos of you and your team doing work.

Me and Samhitha maintained this area by splitting up the work and working together on some parts of the area. I wiped the wooden pieces, the area where they were sitting in, and organized them. I wiped the spinning cake stand looking things, underneath it and put it back, I organized the empty yogurt containers and other containers area and helped with wiping some of the bases for the pottery. Samitha cleaned and organized the rolling pins, the bases for the pottery, and organized and wiped parts of the table as well as other things she may have done.

1. Completion of Maintenance– Once you have maintained an item, space, product, or tool, take completion images. How has the maintenance of this item contributed to the classroom or environment?