When I was brainstorming about the yellow leaves door, I had an idea about the book, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The book is about a girl called Mary discovering about a beautiful secret garden behind a door. I want to express brightness in my art work.

Original artwork

Observation drawing

For the actual drawing, it had a lot of yellow leaves and branches. They were colored with yellow (leaves), and darkish brown for the branches. For my observation drawing, the leaves are yellow (same as the actual drawing), and the branches are more close to black, even I overlapped brown a little bit on top. Also, for my drawing, the branches and leaves are a bit less than the actual drawing. For the frame of the door, I accidentally colored it wrong. I was suppose to mix brown and black, but instead, I colored brown. There was a word “HOAX” written on the frame of the door!

I got this screenshot from a video called, “The Most Inspiring and Unique Entry Doors.” The door has a lot of golden leaves and thin, long brown colored branches. I think the frame of the door is made out of wood, branches made out of plastic, and the golden leaves also made out of plastics.

This inspired me because there was a vey similar looking tree in front of my grandmas house in Korea, so I decided to pick this door. I used to take picture and play around that tree, so I have a lot of memories.

The media that I liked the most was the acrylic section. The reason I really liked acrylic section was because it has different textures: rough, smooth, bumpy, etc.

One technique I did not use, but want to use later is using dry brush when I’m painting. When we were copying the little drawing, I used wet brush, so the paint kind of blended, and it looked kind of messy. (But after it dried, I colored it on top)So next time I want to use more dry brush and paint them.

One thing we need to remember when we are cleaning up is the acrylic paint. When we are cleaning, we have to clean the brush carefully and really well. Because if you wash them roughly, the brush’s hair might fall off and if you don’t wash them well, the paint will stay in the brush, and it will be hard to wash them off later.

This is an artwork I did with out group. This artwork is engage and persist. I mad this work collaboratively with my two other teammates. Three habits I noted in the work is: 1. engage and  persist, 2. develop craft, 3. express.

Question One: What details do you notice in your work? Observe

One detail I noticed from this artwork is that all these little beads have different textures and sizes. Some beads have rough , bumpy textures but some have smooth textures.

Question Two: What did you learn about the media you used? Develop Craft

One thing I learned about this media I used is using right amount of glue. If you squeeze too much, you’ll see all the glues between the beads, and if you squeeze too little, all the beads will fall off from the paper.

Question 3: How did you plan your work? Envision

I planned this work with my group mates. We all had same idea of happiness so we decided to use beads and magazine papers to make this art work.

This is my feature article about girls’ education. This article tells you about why girls are uneducated, and how can you help those uneducated girls.

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This is my humanity feature article writing project. It is mainly about girls’ education. This article tells you how many girls in the world who are uneducated, why they are uneducated, and others.

-My biggest obstacle was:

1. Cutting the main part.

2. Bending the wire.

-Skills that I learned or developed were:

1. How to use jig-saw

-One thing I’d like to change is:

1. Change the color of my main part (the wood)

To make the tiles, I first picked the plastics. I wanted to be blueish green with white, so I mixed blue, white, and green. After choosing 3 colors, I also chose a mold. I wanted my tiles to be hexagon shape, so I chose hexagon shaped tiles. Next, I sprayed the baking spray to not make the plastic stick on the mold. After, I put the mold into the oven and waited for about 30-40 minutes. After 30-40 minutes, I took my mold out of the oven and used sharp tools to get the plastic out of the mold. I repeated that steps for 4 times to make 4 tiles. When I finished making 4 tiles, I used hot glue gun to stick them together.

I am really proud that I made 4 tiles, because we didn’t have enough ovens and mold, I still made 4 tiles.