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June 13: Graphic Design

Learned how to come up with ideas using word association and how to develop ideas using brainstorming. How to find personal meaning in just words and how to relate them to magazine pictures. How to adjust and format posters. How to make a collage and how to use Adobe Photoshop to add text, format and adding colour to the poster.

Materials used: layout paper, regular paper, Sharpie, scissors, glue, Adobe Photoshop.

I explored the idea of moving on from the past and growing up.

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June 12: Print

Learned how to use a printing press, how to use and carve lino for printing. How I can use wallpaper and plants for my prints. How to use a roller and ink and how to make stamps.

Materials used: oil based inks, ink rollers, newspaper, regular paper, old wallpaper, fresh picked plants, wooden blocks and foam pieces.

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June 11th: Textiles

Learned the significance of mark making, what it could mean, how marks are made, why, when. How to relate the marks to yourself and see what they could mean to you and how to express that meaning onto paper using different textures and objects.

Materials used: Indian ink, paper, paintbrush, masking tape, cotton bud, black ink pen.

The theme I chose was inspired by the freedom I felt while painting these, I like the idea of just throwing the ink wherever I wanted without overthinking whether it looked "good" or not. The marks were from cracks of paint on the walls of the college, cracks from dry patches on the ground and a crack from the tree roots growing under tarmac.

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June 10: Photography

Learned how important lighting and camera angles are. How different colour lighting and placement can set a mood. Also how to use props and where to place them in photos. As well as framing and placing the camera.

Themes of how we experience nature and ideas of identity were explored throughout this day.

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June 7th: Ceramics

Learned how to make slip, attach a bottom and lid to the pot, how to handle clay, how to make a pot, and learned about the materials used.

Materials used: clay, cloth, plaster block, series of tools to carve the clay, hairdryer, mat.

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June 6th: Drawing

Learned how to draw while looking as much as drawing. Observation is key for drawing things accurately. I also learned how to crop and edit pictures in order to see them different and in a new light. As well as how to draw people in a short amount of time, an example being 3 to 5 minutes.

Materials used: Paper, black marker

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June 5th: Animation

Using Adobe Animate and Photoshop.

Learned basic and motion tween.

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June 4th: Fashion

Dress made of paper, inspired by nature with a ballet costume styled dress.

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Three common things I found in these three pictures were:

1. Cracks. In the first photo the roots of a tree are breaking up the tarmac that lies on top of it. And the roots are becoming visible. In the second photo, dry cracks are breaking up the dirt on the ground. In the third photo, paint is cracking and peeling off the wall, showing the underlying colors.

2. The colour grey. The grey of the tarmac from the first picture, the dry grayish tone of the soil in the second picture and the gray shadow cast onto the wall in the last picture.

3. The first two pictures are not manmade cracks. The first crack from the root happened due to growth of the tree, tearing up the tarmac over it. The second crack on the second picture happened due to dry weather with no rain.