Art Summative Daily Journal

Art Summative Daily Journal

May 12 (after school):

Firgrove ended early today, so I was able to keep working on my shadow box. I cut out my frame with an exacto knife and used a folding tool to put a clean crease and fold on the frame. I then attached the frame on my box with double sided tape and attached a piece to the back to make it look like my shadow box was cut out of an actual box. My shadow box is now complete!

May 12:

Today, I was only able to be in class 30 minutes since I had to leave to do Firgrove tutoring. I started on the final step of my shadow box, which was constructing a frame made of black mayfair paper to surround my shadow box. I was able to get an outline of the frame to cut out done.

May 11 (after school):

Today I cut out the remaining cardboard strips. Then I started to assemble the shadow box. Each of my layers are three strips apart from each other. I glued three strips together with a glue stick, and then attached them to each layer. Then I stacked my layers together, and by the time I left, I had assembled all of my layers together. There is only one step left to do.

May 10:

Today the class was only 45 minutes long, so I was not able to get much work done. The different layers of my shadow box are completed, so I started to cut out cardboard strips to use to assemble my layers. I cut out squares for the corners and long rectangles for the middle of the frame. I was able to get about a third of my cardboard pieces completed.

May 6:

Today I painted details on my layers. I was able to fix many of the places where the colours bled. I also created a landscape painting for the background. The shadow box is very close to the construction stage, and I should be finished a few days before the deadline.

May 5 (after school):

Today I shaded an area on my shadow box. I shade the stairs to create depth. I then proceeded to shade a rock that sits on a pedestal in the middle of the stairs. I used almost all of the different varieties of pencils I had to shad with, and when I was finished, I cut the rock out with a small exacto knife.

May 4:

Today I started to paint my layers. I mainly used washed, and I put base colours into many of the areas. I found it very difficult to stay within the lines, and my colours tended to bleed a lot.

April 30:

Today I carefully cut out all the empty space in each layer with an exacto knife. There are a lot of edges and small areas that had to be removed, so this process took all class. It was a very painstaking process, but I was able to successfully remove all of the empty space with nothing bad happening to my layers.

April 28:

Today I transferred the rest of my layers onto the mayfair paper. I then used my 2H pencil to trace over the lines that were transferred to define them more. Then I taped off an area on one of my layers and sponged on a light blue colour to create a pool. When I peeled off the tape, I found out that the tape tears the paper, so now I have to place frames over my borders.

April 26:

Today I cut out four 9x11 pieces of white mayfair paper and placed a line of green tape around the edges to create a border. I then re-traced the lines on the tracing paper on the back of it, and then I placed the tracing paper on the white mayfair paper in a similar fashion to the renaissance painting. I was able to transfer two of my layers.

April 22:

Today I drew my remaining here layers in my shadow box. I then removed the four pieces of tracing paper that I taped on to the piece of cartridge paper and stapled them together. The class was short today, and this was all of the work I was able to finish.

April 20:

Today I started work on my final summative. I went online, and I selected an image of Taliesin West to be the main focus of my shadow box. Then I took a piece of cartridge paper and I drew an 8x10 rectangle on it. I then cut out four pieces of tracing paper to use to plan out my shadow box. I found out that the paper cutting table’s ruler does not make straight cuts and that I have to pre measure the pieces I want to cut. I then drew my first layer in my shadow box.