#CPSA Process Journal

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4/19/2020 week 10: This week has been really stressful. between family things, the pandemic and the work load of online classes I feel like I have not been able to catch a break. And when I think about all the due dates in the future I begin to feel even more stressed out. Because of this i have barely been able to work on my Capstone. I did play around with the site but that is really it. I fould a gallery thing that allows people to move from page to page pretty easily.

As for feedback from second look, I got some good adivce. I wasn't sure about how to go about the subject of people whom often have good intentions but end up saying upsetting things. I was told that it would be important to being this up so that people can know when they are being harmful even when they arent attempting to be.

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Process Journal 10

4/19/20

Show & Tell.  

I pretty much finished my website; above is a video of a bit of one of my pages for ideas of what to do to maintain healthy personal mental and physical wellness. I have shown the website to my family and have gotten very positive feedback, and I showed bits of it over the phone to friends who have told me they love it too. Overall, despite the craziness of the coronavirus and its impact on my project, I am pretty happy with how it turned out!

Second Look. 

My feedback was very positive; nobody really made any suggestions except for one person, who suggested to maybe add something related to art made during the pandemic. I decided to add another post to the blog portion of my website for people to be able to share their personal art, in essence creating a fluid gallery of exhibition visitors’ art within my website. I think it’s a great way to get people involved and add another arts element to the website.

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Process Journal #9 due 04/12 -- Advisor Conference #2

Show and Tell 

Today I finally did my first lip sync animation for my Minecraft character. It took a bit of frustrating set up (including switching Minecraft character rigs 2 times to fix certain issues in the program) but the animating process wasn’t as complicated as I thought it would be. Sadly, it took most of my afternoon and evening to do it so I didn’t have time to render it all out and I can’t show anything right now. 

Advisor Conference #2

The above image actually has to do with what I got from advisor conference feedback. The thing was that there were a bunch of items on my desk and they were really distracting. So I photoshopped them out. Because the right half of the frame is basically a still frame in the actual video, using a masking technique I can edit out all instances of those distracting items. 

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Process Journal

Link to my Learning Agreement

2.10.20

This week I organized all of the Polaroids I’ve taken thus far into mini books to help organize and protect the film. I’m still working on finalizing the list of “bucket list” items I want to complete, as well as what the journal entry prompts will be. Besides the pretty big gap in research that I have with this, my project doesn’t feel “substantial” enough right now, if that makes any sense.

Some of the photos below!

(above is from the museum I went to, below is from my trip to Israel!)

Additionally, I did a critical response workshop with fellow Arts Scholar Adriana Alonzo:

Critical Response Process-w/ Adriana Alonzo

Statements of Meaning:

- Likes how this project has an air of “fulfillment”

- “Fun” premise; Makes it real life, not a HW assignment

Artist as the Questioner:

Research angle: the mental health benefits of traveling, journaling; Research the individual aspects of your project

- Logging mental health over a long period of time

-follow up research on the ones I enjoyed

Neutral Questions

- How many “experiences” do you plan having; do you know

Goal between 10-12; subsections within each “header”; don’t have final list

- How are you going to set up website?

Current plan is to have a gallery, but also direct links to each experience; A more clean cut design than the original scrapbook

- Any research on website?

Probably gonna have a page about that; be the home screen? (maybe not)

Permissioned Opinions

- Do you like the experiences I’ve brought up?

“It’s cute! I think the mix you have is good; always people to relate, like you want”

2.12.20

I had my advisor conference today with Heather and she gave me some really great advice on avenues I can go down for the research end of things. One thing Heather said that is really sticking with me is what she said about making this an experiment of sorts—I’m not just going to complete these bucket list experiences, but having a common theme/experiment throughout that will help me connect them. What if this experiment was prose related? I wanted to add in a writing element other than journaling originally so this could be my opportunity to do that.

I’ve also decided to use Wix for the final web format. It’s easy to use but also has the opportunity for “advanced tinkering,” as I like to say.

2.17.20

I’ve had a breakthrough today—I was hanging out with my writer friend and I remembered a while back she was talking about how one of her english classes had them do an assignment where they had to “people watch” for thirty minutes once a week and write down some of the conversations they overheard. My friend used this to help better her dialogue in her writing. I’ve decided to emulate this but take it a step further: I’m going to go to places I’ve always wanted to go to, but I’m going to people watch at these places—write down snippets of conversation I might overhear, etc—and then choose a subject/person to write a short story about. This allows me to not only experience new things, but try and put myself in a new mindset, context, by writing in these places about someone/something else. Because there’s a new, more time-consuming and creative-consuming element to this capstone, I think it’s wise that I aim for 5-6 total pieces/experiences instead of the originally intended 10-12. 

2.19.20

I had my first look presentation today and overall I’ve gotten some really good feedback from everyone. I still need to thoroughly go through the flashcards I got from everyone, but so far everyone seems to like the direction it's going, even giving some great suggestions for what format the stories should be in (flash fiction maybe? Or even dabble in poetry as well) and how I could narratively tie all the stories together. Below is the google document I used to succinctly point out the differences and similarities between this “new” capstone and the old one.

A Collection of Stories Inspired by People (or Wizard) Watching

SIMILAR ELEMENTS

Still In a web format

Still involves me going out and trying new things; simply asks me to be more engaged with my surroundings and other people there

Still involves reflection/journaling on my part

Still involves a photographic complement

DIFFERENT ELEMENTS

New narrative element- I’m writing a short story about a person experiencing the space I’m in;

Possibly contrasting and/or complementing that story to my own personal emotions tied to that space

Story is going to be the main focus, while my own thoughts are going to be secondary

RESEARCH

Fairly new idea, so I’m working on curating a new list of sources, but I’m going to primarily focus on researching the benefits of people watching, actively being creative in a new space (seeing how that affects my writing process), etc

2.21.20

Today I started messing with Wix a bit. I’m definitely jumping ahead on my schedule and ignoring what I should really be doing (research!!) but I’m giving myself some breathing room to get my thoughts and such accumulated to this new idea. I don’t want to share any pictures of my website bare bones until 

2.24.20

My goal for this week (on top of research) was to compile a rough list of the places I want to go for writing this story. A lot of the preliminary reserach I’ve done on writing/being creative in a new space suggests having a “control;” this means, in regards to this particular project, that I need to write in a space I’m familiar with and see how that differs from writing in a completely new space. Then there’s also the question of how I’ll write at the beginning when I’m first introduced to the new space, and then how’ll write once I get slightly more acclimated to the space. Regardless, here are my ideas for where to people watch/write as of today:

(1) Starbucks route 1 [serves as my control for this “experiment”]

(2) Bookstore/Restaurant (I’m visiting one next Thursday for a comedy show)

(3) “Somewhere” in NYC (visiting w/ scholars—write during free time?)

(4) Center of a campus (not UMD— maybe Towson? over Spring Break?)

I don’t want a totally “complete” list yet, as I want opportunities to present themselves as I go along, but I still think it’s good to have a basic list of things to do. I think the first thing that I’ll end up doing is either the Starbucks one (my control) or the bookstore/restaurant since I’m attending a comedy event at one next Thursday.

3.1.20

I haven’t really made much headway in research, writing, or anything to be honest. I had a pretty busy weekend—worked most of Friday and all of Saturday— and now I’m starting to get a little bit nervous. I’m switching up my weekly plan a bit and having this week be primarily research and working on my annotated bibliography. Then maybe I’ll have a good idea of how I want to go about people watching for the comedy show this Thursday. 

3.4.20

Last week we had arts scholars alumni join us for our weekly discussions. While I was expecting a plethora of great advice from each of them, It was also great to hear about how they each struggled, and that changing your mind is okay. 

3.10.20

Tonight we heard that school is going to be closed down for the next month or so because of the current worldwide health situation (it might be a pandemic. we don’t know yet). As much as I hate to admit it I’m more annoyed than anything, but I understand how paramount safety and health is over any frustrations I might have. I know we’ll adjust accordingly. I hadn’t really thought about how this was going to affect my capstone until now. Hopefully I’ll still be able to travel to new places. Everything’s pretty hectic right now so we’ll see what the next few weeks bring.

3.25.20

Creativity; Time Management Chosen Technique: Incubation. While I’ve utilized “taking a break” while I’m working, (going to take a walk, etc) I’ve never really considered it in the context of “this is my time to let my thoughts marinate.” I really enjoyed reframing my mindset while taking incubation breaks and found that it allowed me to not only work longer, but more effectively.

3.31.20

It’s been an interesting month to say the least. I’m going to have to change my capstone quite a bit in light of the rest of the semester being online and not being able to travel to write my pieces. I’m really not quite sure what I’m going to do, but we’ll see. I have nothing to show at this time. I have my research but I haven’t dived into writing because I’m unsure of what direction to go in. Perhaps after I talk with Heather I’ll have some more direction.

4.5.20

Curation Rapid Prototyping Exercise: essentially, my sketching revolved around the various menu tabs I want for my website.

- An Artist’s Statement/Process page (BTS)

- Research page

- A central page for someone to visit that organizes all of the pieces onto one “table of contents” that links to each pieces individual page

- An individual page for each piece

- A contact page?

Second Advisor Meeting: 4/9/20

I met with my arts advisor (Heather!) over ZOOM today and thank god because I can salvage this capstone. I honestly with I’d reached out to her sooner. We’ve found a way to salvage my research and redirect/reword it to fit the current situation. I’ll be writing about rooms in my house that I’ve changed emotions for. It plays into my research on the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis (our susceptibility of change due to environmental factors) and change itself. I want these pieces to encapsulate a clear before and after, and how that may have negatively or positively affected me.

Second Look Presentation: 4/17/20

Going into the second look presentations I felt more grounded in what I wanted to write about and the literary mediums I was going to write about. However I still feel like I’m lacking focus. Heather’s feedback on my central question really had me think about how I can clarify and specify the focus and the audience of my capstone. I’ve decided to rephrase my central question as: What’s new? It proposes that something has changed, but it allows me the flexibility to offer different answers with each prose. I intend to add some context to this question on my Wix page (perhaps in the process section?). 

4.21.20

For my show and tell I’d like to share a screenshot of the brainstorming process of my pieces right now, alongside a few little rough excerpts. I’ve also thought of doing a mini photo shoot to provide visuals for each of these pieces if I have time.

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Sketchbook Process 3/17/16

Pictured above is my process in my sketchbook. I wrote down ideas, celebrities, designers, and objects that inspire my mood for this collection. I break down what materials I might want to use so I can get an idea of the color scheme, something I think is very important in a collection. Color schemes help fluidity between looks and help the collection flow better overall. The center picture is a sketch that I think I am no longer going to make but this sketch really inspired my other rough sketches that I will be using for his project. These small rough sketches can be seen on the bottom right corner. I am not much of a sketch artist so I really just use theee to summarize the look I’m going for so I don’t forget something o originally wanted. These pages are the guideline for my project artistically.

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This past week, I’ve been struggling to find time, but during the small number of times I’ve gotten to break from studying, I’ve looked at the progress I made before now and I’m actually proud of what I’d written. As I was writing, I knew I wasn’t completely satisfied with how they sounded but now that I’m reading, I think they’re actually pretty good. It’s nice to have some time apart so I can become motivated again. That being said, I need to become motivated much more in order to meet my new deadlines.

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We rehearsed the piece, and I got a decent recording of it. This will help me figure out what I need to rework in the editing stage.

(Recorded on Monday, April 2nd, 2018)

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Am I being too hard on myself: Choosing the right ones

March 16th, 2016: 

I overthink and analyze almost everything, especially when it comes to what I create. I am also a self-proclaimed perfectionist and I can sit there for hours fussing over one detail until its exactly they way I like, or until someone sees me going crazy and intervenes. Each woman had 50-150 photos taken of her, and and after every few photoshoot, I sit and look at all the pictures that I have taken of the models and select the ones that I think are the best, composition wise and do the women justice. I do this so that when it comes time to give them the raw pictures, after the capstone is finished, they’ll have a folder of “20 best shots” that they can do what they want with them and post them to Instagram. or Facebook.  Being the self critical person that I am, out of, lets say 100 pictures, I would only chose 20 of them that fit my personal criteria. 

On snow day i was going through the most recent pictures from that weekend and I was a bit disappointed in myself. The three women that I shot that day did a great job, but I don’t think their effort was reflected in the pictures that I had taken of them. In my opinion my composition of some of the frames were poor. I started complaining that I didn’t do these women justice in the pictures that I took of them and that there are only a handful of pictures that I like. Alexia overheard me and she looked at my laptop screen and said,”Oooh I like that one, it’s pretty” to a pictures that I had the opposite reaction to. She asked me what I thought was so bad about it and some of the others, and while i was explaining my discontent with the composition and lighting, she shook her head saying, “What are you talking about these pictures look great. Merissa that’s what photoshop is for, you can edit these. You took over 100 pictures so that you could have options. Stop being so self-critical. You did a great job.” 

Over the course of this phase of the project, Alexia has been really great partner when it comes to making me take a step back and look at the pictures for what they are, and not what I want them to be. 

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Advising Meeting 1

I don’t know how to attach a document for Tumblr.

CPSA250:                   Conference Report

Fill this form out in its entirety & submit it via email to all three of the Arts Scholars faculty (Harold, Bimbola and Montse) within 48 hours of your conference. Copy this information over to your Scholars Tumblr site as well (tagged as CPSA Capstone Advising). Failure to submit this form on time will result in losing half the points for the meeting process!

NAME: Michelle Chan

ADVISOR: Montse

MEETING DATE & TIME: Thursday 2/8/18 4:10pm

In 3-4 sentences, please describe what was discussed during your meeting.

We discussed the timeline, for which she advised me to confirm it with my partner, Lily Huang, to keep in mind weekends and life in general. She recommended dividing the animation by characters rather than by scenes, or to make the initial roughs more detailed so we both have the same idea and the animation doesn’t have illogical jumps between scenes. Then, I tried to describe my story and she advised making it simpler and following a narrative of want, so, but, action.

In 3-4 sentences, please explain what the next steps you will take with your project will be.

My next step was discussing the timeline and story with my partner so that we are both on track and each part is clear and included in the timeline. We revised the story so the complicated details are not included. After that is finishing the storyboard drafts and including more details in them so Lily and I can know what the action and its purpose is. I’ll be brainstorming ideas for the main theme of the “beginning of the adventure” story.

Please use the space below to indicate any further questions, concerns, or confusions that were NOT addressed during the meeting.

Should all posts that fall under the “Complete Process Binder” assignment’s description of “showing your progress and process as fully as possible” have the tag “CPSA Capstone Journal” or should they be untagged in the Process Binder Tumblr page?

I’m also wondering if it’s ok if I don’t have a central theme?

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CPSA Capstone Agreement

CPSA 250: College Park Arts Scholars Capstone: Solo Project, Spring 2017 Name: Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Email: kristiemak4197@gmail.com Advisor: Jess Weekly Meeting Time: Wednesdays at 2pm Purpose/Mission Statement: This semester I hope to inform students about African culture. I plan to do a culture comparison of two tribes in Nigeria and Ghana. While comparing the different aspects of their culture I will also discuss their outlook on art and how art is implemented into both countries’ cultures. From this experience I will learn more about Ghanaian and Nigerian culture and I hope to spread some knowledge about these two countries to my fellow classmates. Learning Objectives: I will do research on the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria and the Asante tribe of Ghana. I will discover how both cultures view creativity and how they implement art into their culture/lives. I will gain more knowledge about these two African tribes and spread my knowledge to my fellow peers who may not be familiar with the culture of both countries. Workshop Process: Research on the language spoken in each country is needed, as well as the predominate art forms. I will utilize museums in the DMV area as well as textbooks and online articles. In order to create the finished project, I will do extensive research and post all my findings in a blog/online journal. I plan to document my work in a process binder. I will put captions, photos and my inspirations in my process binder in order to show my audience how I went about completing my final project. Resources: Internet sources---multiple articles, journal posts etc. Books: Customs and Culture of Ghana by Steven J. Salm Museums: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Baltimore Museum of Art Pictures from Pinterest, google images, and photos from my findings at the Museum Project Timeline: -All research will be done by Spring break. The week after spring break I will start to create my blog and post my findings on the website. I will be putting all my research notes/items into a binder.

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Learning Agreement

CPSA 250: College Park Arts Scholars Capstone: Solo Project, Spring 2017

Name: Rachael Griffin

Advisor: Jess

Weekly Meeting Time: Wednesdays 2pm

Purpose/Mission Statement: In today’s society, the female body is scrutinized and examined in a very harsh light. For many women, body positivity is a daily struggle, and is hard to achieve with the constant push of “the ideal woman.” For my project, I’d like to photograph women in places, situations, or engaged in actions that inspire positive body image. I hope to learn the true definition of empowerment and discover new ways to foster body positivity in others and in myself.

Learning Objectives:

I will capture at least 10 females actively engaged in a task, space, etc. that makes them feel confident about their bodies.

I will interview the women (with audio recordings) and inquire how they discovered their personal methods of body empowerment.

I will journal about my encounters with each woman and reflect on how my definition of empowerment shifts, changes, or grows (or doesn’t).

I will research photographic styles and techniques to utilize in my photography.

I will learn the mechanics of a camera and how to use different settings, controls, and so on.

I will learn how to edit photos with a professional editing system. 

Workshop Process:

To begin, I will do research on basic photography skills, styles, and techniques to determine how I will take and present my photos. I own my own camera, and can access free editing systems through my mac and the university. I can find participants by word of mouth, friends, and through organizations I am associated with (such as the female fitness group CHAARG). I will insure my participants are comfortable and feel safe when we work together. We will do the interview first, and have them explain their methods of body positivity, how they discovered it, etc. Then we will take the pictures. To create the finished project, after I’ve taken all the photos, I will compile them in a video with quotes from the interviews. I will document my work and research through journal entries on Tumblr.

Resources:

-       Demi Lovato, Warrior (song)

-       Ashley Graham, plus sized model, several interviews/quotes/photos

-       The Body Project (novel)

-       Female Body by Atwood (essay on female body)

-       Plastic Bodies Project

-       Homage to my hips (poem)

Project Timeline:

3/1 Select 10 people as participants, begin interviews

3/1 First Look presentation

3/15 Complete at least 5 interviews/photo sessions

4/5 Second Look Presentation

4/12 Complete final 5 interviews/photo sessions

4/27 Finish final 2 pieces, compile portfolios

5/4 Academic Show Case

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4/5/2020: Week 8

I kept trying to draw out what I had planned but i really wasnt feeling it. I think I will have to rethink a couple things so the focus can be more on internalized homophobia and less on me. I’m not going to start all over but I will have to cut some things and re work what I have.

When sketching out ideas for how to display thing on the site, the first two ideas were pretty standard. However, with my knew idea I want to sprinkle in other peoples stories at the side of mine. I am worried that it might be a bit cluttered or break the flow of the comic however.

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Process Journal 9

4/11/20

Show & Tell. 

This past week, I worked on putting together my website exhibition. I actually really like putting together the website because it offers me a lot more ways to impact viewers with my capstone. I am able to accomplish so much more than what I could have with my animation alone, like offer ideas about maintaining one’s mental and physical wellness during this time and resources for DIY cloth face masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant wipes. I am excited to continue working on the virtual exhibition.

Advisor Feedback.

I got really great feedback from Harold this past week. He felt that my animation was effective in accomplishing my goals for it, like evoking an emotional response from the viewer and acting as a PSA about the coronavirus. He liked the things I changed in response to our first advisor meeting and the ideas I had for my website, which was great and motivated me to start working on my website and implement as many of those ideas as possible.

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Process Journal #8 : Curation Plan (due 04/05) 

Show and Tell 

Shots / Scene List 

(Voice only) I feel like this world is against me

Steve wakes up in an unfamiliar world

Steve tries to punch a tree but it doesn’t work (Voice narration)

Steve complains to Alvin about his situation (Lip Sync)

Includes a flashback on how he came here. (Portal VFX) (Lip Sync)

Steve thrown out of portal into real world

Steve meets Suspicious Minecraft Character (SMC) and gets his butt kicked (Lip Sync)

(Cuts to) Alvin shows promise of sending Steve home (Lip Sync)

(Cuts back to) Steve gets kicked around

Portal opens in Alvin’s room and Alvin waves goodbye to Steve; Steve walks through; Alvin closes the portal with his hands

Steve arrives in a desert world; SMC waits for him and says “you thought that was it” (One word lip sync)

The past week has been a wake-up call about the quality I want in my final video vs what I’m headed towards. In my preliminary edits using storyboard drawings, I had the video planned to be almost 3 minutes long. However, 3 minutes was barely realistic with the amount of free time I had during spring break, and now I don’t think I can make it at all without significant corner cutting. The video itself also wasn’t interesting the way it was edited. That took a toll on my overall motivation levels to work on it. 

The main issue was that I was stuck between having the video as a trailer or as an animated short with a more coherent story. Unintentionally, I had the video a mix of both which made them terrible at doing either job. I eventually chose the trailer option and edited the video down to 1:30~ long, removing anything I saw unfit. Above is the current scene list I have to complete and the scenes I’ve completed at this point. I feel a little more confident and motivated about animating this now. 

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Final Learning Agreement

CPSA 250: College Park Arts Scholars Capstone: Solo Project, Spring 2017

Name: Justin Lehr

 Email: jlehr97@gmail.com

Advisor: Harold

Weekly Meeting Time: Thursdays, 2 – 2:50 p.m.

Purpose/Mission Statement:

           My goal for this semester is to learn more about the structure and history of the trumpet in hopes of incorporating this knowledge to better my overall performance. In addition to improving playing the trumpet, I also hope to familiarize myself with AutoCAD or SketchUp (whichever is easier to work with), the computer aided design software I plan to use. By the end of the project, I will have 3D sketches of mouthpieces that lead to a 3D printed mouthpiece, and research and sketches of the construction and history of the trumpet. Finally, I will have a short audio clip that is me playing on the 3D printed mouthpiece and my regular mouthpiece to allow the audience to hear the differences construction has on tone.

Learning Objectives:

1.     I will learn how to use CAD software (SketchUp/AutoCAD) in order to replicate a mouthpiece that is based upon my research throughout the semester.

2.     I will have a video of me performing a short etude with the 3D printed mouthpiece and with my current mouthpiece to see the differences in tone and quality. This will be presented at ArtsFest for people to listen to and vote on which they think is the 3D printed mouthpiece, and which one is the regular mouthpiece.

3.     I will gather research and sketch trumpets from different time periods to note the design differences between each and explain why these changes were made/what was the purpose for them.

Workshop Process:

I first need to pick a time-period to focus my research in; this will make sure that I am not too broad in my research. Then, I will find various articles describing the trumpet during that time and what it was used for. I will not only take notes on the key points, but also sketch out images of these trumpets to showcase at Arts Fest. After research comes the 3D modeling of a mouthpiece. I hope to use the research and further articles on construction of modern day trumpets to aid my design. In addition, there are many pre-drawn CAD images that I can base my design off if I need help getting started.

To document my research, I will be taking pictures of the sketches from each century or so and posting them on my Tumblr site along with the research I have found associated with that sketch. In addition, I will take pictures of the 3D printing process and make sure to note any failures that I may have while going through this process.

Resources:

Macaluso, Charles A., and Jean-Pierre Dalmont. "Trumpet with Near-perfect Harmonicity: Design and Acoustic Results." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

        129.1 (2011): 404-14. JSTOR [JSTOR]. Web. 16 Nov. 2016.

Blaikley, D. J. "How a Trumpet Is Made. I. The Natural Trumpet and Horn." The Musical Times

        51.803 (1910): 14-16. JSTOR [JSTOR]. Web. 16 Nov. 2016.

Baines, Anthony. Brass Instruments: Their History and Development. New York: Dover, 1993. Print.

www.thingiverse.com (website with CAD drawings that can be downloaded from)

3D Printer (at home)

Project Timeline:

February 17th – research and sketch done of 14th and 16th century trumpets

February 24th – research and sketch done of 17th -18th century trumpets

March 3rd – research and sketch done of 19th – 20th century trumpets

March 10th – March 12th – research construction of specific mouthpieces in prep for printing

March 12th – 26th – work on CAD drawing of mouthpiece

March 26th – have printed mouthpiece!

March 31st – Record etude on regular mouthpiece and printed mouthpiece for Arts Fest

April 7th – compose research and sketches together for Arts Fest display

April 14th – create poster for Academic Showcase

April 14th – April 27th – BUFFER ZONE (in case I run behind)

April 28th – set-up for Arts Fest!

May 4th – Academic Showcase!

[julielcpsarts-blog]

During the past weeks, I focused mostly on inspiration but also made a small amount of progress on the book itself. I was able to sit down and sketch out something that took time and a bit of concentration, which was a small victory since I wasn’t able to do much like this after this one time. I also figured out that Crayola markers don’t bleed through the pages as much, but that colored pencils also work. I’ve decided to do a bit of a variety when it comes to writing utensils in order to make the pages unique from each other.