Art in Technology:
Because we're in AOIT Art (weird, I know, >.<) but we had the opportunity to use the iPads in the media center. In making the "technology" piece I used art in the actual making of the shape, and in the paint brushes that gave it more texture and more of a real cactus, (I mean, it was based on a short story "The Cactus" where it was a non-real in life cactus called a Ventomarme, that the girl who got married and the guy who though he loved her was sad and a dude told him it translated to "come to me" 'cause of the weird "beckoning" leaves and it was basically encouraging affairs, which aren't good)...but anyway, I was really proud of the final product, and still am, it was my first attempt at computer art!! And art in technology!! Yeah!!
For one of our past Photoshop projects (not in the 12 days) we took pictures with photo frames, and put something that represented ourselves inside of it. In the end it was a piece of art (or at least I should hope so, because although I never saw it, my friends *sigh, yes, I do have some of those* told me that it was featured on a TV screen at the front of the school or something like that). Without the use of Photoshop, it would of just been an ugly picture of me, instead of a masterpiece! (not really) (but really tho.) JK I don't do good art, I mean this is kinda passable. I searched the interweb for colorful paint splatters, and used the transform tool to place the art in and around the frame and under me feet, to make it look like (or atleast close) to it have always had been there.
For the third day, we had to scramble up body parts and put them in different/wrong places. Being the basic person I am, Carly and I took a picture together, and swapped our faces. Carley's face looks great, and mine looks so ratchet. In addition, we each have three feet, 'cause why not?
For the first part, I did a sunflower to morph it to the perspective needed, on the computer and then griding it and drawing it with the grid in my sketch book. On Thursday, our whole squad went outside to the parking lot and drew Kara's picture, Patches from 101 Dalmatians. Instead of keeping to black and white, we used all the color of chalk we could find, and yellow for the body, which we blended and paled with paint brushes. We left a masterpiece of chalk art for everyone to admire, before the rain washed it away. 
For our final project as part of the illustration unit, we chose a few pictures to compile together to create an original painting. At first, my initial plan was to draw silhouettes standing on the mountains, but the perspective would've been off, so I scratched that plan. I used kind of small strokes on my painting as opposed to the long horizontal strokes, hoping it would help with the blending I hoped to achieve, and it ended up looking pretty cool. For the stars, I used white spray paint, and it turned out better than I would've hoped. I messed up one of the starts...but shhhhh, it's the north star now :). 
