Story Pole

Summer training in Ocean City, N.J. is a lot of fun. I enjoy running in the hot summer sun and down the shore. Running and seeing the sun set is really enjoyable. I can finish my runs and jump into the ocean. I run on the beach, over the bridge, and on the boardwalk. Ocean City makes summer training a lot of fun. 

After the many miles during summer training, cross country season arrives. We race through nature and get to see nice seenery. Running through the woods on paths is why I like cross country. Different races bring different places to view and to run. I enjoy running on new courses and running through parts of nature that I have never seen before. 

Winning a race as a team or an individual is a really fun part of cross country. This past cross country season our team won the South Jersey Group 1 Championship and the New Jersey Group 1 State Championship. Winning both of these races was a lot of fun. Our team received a trophy and the individuals received medals. I really enjoyed this cross country season. 

Pop Print

I enjoyed the process of the pop print art project. First we had to bring in a blue object and my object was a pack of Collgate Wisp. We then we're given a rectangular piece of rubber and made stamps based on the object we brought in. I really liked carving the box of Wisp and giving it the design it has on the stamp. When I completed my stamp I then used the stamp on a rectangular piece of paper to complete the project. I stamped the print in light blue three times vertically and then two times horizontally. When the prints we dry I used red sharpie to color inside of the Wisp box. To finalize the project I colored the perimeter of the Wisp box with green sharpie. 

Fortune Cookie Inspired Book Page

Our class started the fortune cookie inspired book page project by opening 7 fortune cookies. We had the opportunity to choose which fortune we liked the most. I read through all my fortunes and found one that inspired me. The fortune was "The philosophy of one century is common sense for the next." This quote inspired me because I thought about all the new and improved things we have made based on the original ones made before us. With this project I also used the newspaper background. On this collage I used the words future and past to describe the fortune that I had choose. First I drew an old time telophone and the drew a cell phone that we use today. I also drew an old time radio and a radio that we use today. I did this because it shows how much our iventions have improved over time. 

Art x 3

Throughout the art x 3 project I had expierienced three different pieces of art. I think my best piece of art was definitely my last collage. Our goal was to make a collage of celebrities. The celebrity topic of my collage was sport celebrities. I started my final piece of art with a newspaper background. I really like the way it looks behind the rest of the collage. Next I cut out athletes that play different sports and glued them over top of the newspaper. I also added the words sports and fame to add to the topic of athlete celebrities. I finalized the art x 3 project by painting the white outline with a light blue paint. I really like how my final collage turned out. 

What does our revel about us?

Our connection does relate to our interest because the items in our connection are things that we use. Someone brought in a swim ribbon, therefore one of their interest in swimming. Also, someone brought in a Cliff Bar, this could be something that person likes. Another item brought was a hat, this could mean that the person who brought in the hat likes wearing them. Lastly, there are cleaning products in our collection, so this means that people are interested in cleaning. 

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Compare and Contrast Two Artist

Both Karsten Bott and Claes Oldenburg are very talented and interesting artist. They both have built sculptures that look realistic. Karsten Bott is an artist whose goal is to collect one of everything and to make art out of everything that he collects. He has made all different kinds of sculptures out of the items that he has already collected. His sculptures are not just separated by color or the items that are in them, he mixes up where all the items go. I really like his art work and all the different items in each piece of art. Claes Oldenburg is an artist who makes sculptures all over the world. He has made his sculptures look really realistic and I enjoy them. One of his sculptures is an ice cream cone hanging off the side of a building. His sculptures are huge and look really cool. 

Karsten Bott-

Claes Oldenburg-

Compare and Contrast Your 2 Drawing and the Experience You Had

I enjoyed drawing both the bycical drawing and the candy jar drawing. Both of my drawings were challenging and started to look better as the process went on. For the candy jar drawing I really liked how you mix colored pencils to get a richer value. For the bycical drawing I really like how you could erase, shade darker or shade light to create value. What I didn't like about the candy jar drawing was trying to get the candy to look like it was actually in the jar. You needed to use the highlights that were on the real jar to make the candy look like it was actually in the jar. I needed to shade the white highlights a few times to darken them and actually make them look like highlights. What I didn't like about the bike drawing was the start of the drawing. It was hard to create the form of the bike. It was also hard to make the wheels exact circles. After the start and making the form of the bike, the drawing became fun. Both of these drawings were really fun to draw.