The strongest part out of all my art pieces is the symmetry. All these pieces once started as the top picture. I cut them into different shapes and made different designs. The pictures are all symmetric and none of them are off. To improve my art pieces, I would just mess around with different things that are available on the photoshop application. To make my pictures more diverse I could have changed the colors. Since they come from the same picture to me they look similar but the patterns are different. To create my work I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool and I used the ruler Borders. I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool in order to cut the picture into a triangle shape. Then I copied the piece I cut and inversed it so that it would be like a reflection of the first piece. Then I copied those 2 pieces and inversed those too so that they would also be a reflection to the bottom piece. I used the ruler borders to make sure that each time I cut the piece, all the pieces came out even and lined up perfectly so I wouldn't have any symmetry issues.

The easy part of this activity was doing my second and third kaleidoscope because I had got the hang of it after the first one. It was also easy thinking of how I was going to create them with different shapes. In order to get different products I had to cut pieces and copy them in a different way than before. The difficult part of this activity was trying to actually figure out how to make a kaleidoscope. For a whole class period I was looking around, and watching other students create theirs. It wasn't until the end of the class period that I asked my teacher for help and from then on I had fun creating all of my kaleidoscopes. At first, it was also difficult for me to find a picture I liked and a picture that I thought would come out great. I didn't really have any pictures to use until I went on Facebook and looked through my old pictures and saw this fallen-over tree.

I demonstrated the objectives of this activity by making multiple kaleidoscopes using only one picture and by making each one of them different in their own way. If I could do this assignment again, I would change the colors in each of them and I'd continue adding different shapes so i could come up with different ideas. I would also use a different part of the picture instead of the one I used because the kaleidoscope would come out completely different, it would come out a different color, and there would be a different pattern. For this project i would rate myself an 8 because i tried really hard but i didn't go as hard as i could have. I could have done much more instead of following the same route i took the last time. At first it was difficult understanding how to cut the pictures but after i got the hang of it, i really enjoyed it and had fun doing it.

Typography Project

I think the strongest part of my art piece is the different colors and designs. The colors are all bright and they look like they blend well with each other. All the colors pop out like they’re neon or like they’re glowing. One part of my art that can be improved on is how much letters are placed on the picture. In could have changed the font and made each “y” different from each other. Instead of making them all yellow I could have changed the colors maybe to: white and orange or pink and baby blue to make my piece more “unique”.

Some tools I used to create my piece were the gradient tool, the lasso tool, and the move tool. I used the move tool to move the letters around and create a design that I liked. The lasso tool was used to cut out things that I didn’t want to show in the final piece. I used the gradient tool to change the background to make it look really cool. I also did something that made these different colored rainbow circles and wherever I clicked it added another rainbow circle. They really go with the piece and they made it look really amazing.

What was difficult about this piece of art was trying to come up with an original idea. I literally started over like 10 times and used different letters each time. First it was the letter x, then l, then v, then t etc. If I could do this assignment again I wouldn’t change it because I’m really satisfied with it and I didn’t expect to get to where I did. I was just going by trial and error. Creating this was completely random and not intentional. For this project I would give myself an 8 because I could have put more content. By content I mean the amount of letters I put. I only used about 7 or 8 y’s and then copied the whole row I had on the piece.