Shutter Speed

Shutter Speed is about movement and light. Shutter Speed is also about how much it takes for it to let light in. The place where we took the shutter speed pictures at was a really dark room with absolutely no light inside of it. Our teacher, Ms. Cook, did the settings for us to make the pictures last longer. I would rather keep using shutter speed rather than ISO and Aperture because it makes the pictures more original and much more interesting for people to look at. My favorite picture is the second one. I liked this one because you can truly see the different movements we did while taking the shutter speed picture.

Surrealism-"Enchanted Change"

In my surrealism I included most of the objects I constantly see in my dreams. Lately I have been seeing many teeth in my dreams. According to dreammoods.com, it said that when you dream a tooth in your dream it’s because you are sick mentally and or physically. It is recommended to go and see a doctor as soon as possible. In my dream I also saw many difficult and tremendously rainy and windy storms that eventually created thunder. Dream Moods said that falling rain may be a metaphor for tears, crying and sadness. In my dream I also saw many animals but especially the cheetah, dreammoods.com said that when you dream of a cheetah it’s because you need to get moving and be more active in pursuit of your goals. Strangely in my dream I saw a baby, a shell, and a swamp. My dream was kind of like enchanted you could say, but mysterious at the same time. To see a shell in your dream, according to dreammoods.com signifies your inner desire to be sheltered, nourished and protected from life's problems. It also indicates that you are closing yourself off emotionally; you are holding your feelings inside. As I brought together all of my dreams to make them into one I could see that all my dreams are trying to tell me that my life is going to have irreversible changes occurring. I must just prepare myself for when all these changes begin to occur.

Surreal Practice Tutorials

For the desert landscape we did a lot of things. We stretched the ground first making it seem more realistic rather than just having it being flat. We added a sky to it. The way we did this was that we added a gradient and then painting cloud brushes over it . We inserted a light pole into the picture and then we made a shadow to it. These tutorials gave me insight on how to be more creative on my surrealism.

Art Show- Social Issue

For my social issue I took a picture of a young teenage girl who is blindly in love and doesn't realize that she is being harmed incredibly deep by an abusive boyfriend. I took this picture in black and white. My statement was made in red, to alert and make people understand that she is in a risky and dangerous relationship and that she should just get out of it. I chose to do it on a young teenage girl because as teenagers we are blind and haven't yet woken up to see everything. We think we have seen it all but we haven't yet seen anything. Many girls allow having an abusive relationship because they saw their parents go through it and saw that everything was going well, although a violent, abusive, jealous relationship is never right.
I interpret my social issue as something I wish would stop amongst us girls. I relate this issue in my life because I have seen maybe not as much as domestic violence but enough. This has always been an issue for me and it would be something I would love to see stop. This issue is extremely important and it is something I feel very strong about because simply it is something that should not be happening at all.

Student Handbook

After looking at other students programs I think my student handbook is different because it has a different style. My student handbook is more like a collage I could say. I think my student handbook could have been better if I would have soften my edges and used other different classes
of fonts. Indeed I think I could have done a better job.

Graduation Program

After looking at other students programs I think a strength my program had was the brushes I used . I think something I could have done better was not used too much purple. Graphic Design is kind of difficult, because you are not pleasing yourself, but you are doing it to try and grab other peoples attention that sometime may not have the same interests as you. Graphic Design is very important in today's society because it is everywhere. Graphic design motivates us to do the choices we sometimes do.

Personal Quilt

When beginning to create my quilts I had in mind to do something simple, but that yet tells what it is that is going on. As I began working on this project I wasn't sure yet of what it was I wanted, my idea developed later on when I started when I began working on the Inside Me Quilt.

Out of all Four square quilts I made, my favorite one was the Inside Me quilt. It was my favorite one because in that specific square I was able to express myself deeply. I believe the hardest part where I struggled was developing an idea.

I wasn't so surprised to hear what other people said about me, because what I said about myself is mainly what people said about me.

Some of the symbols I used were clouds and the bright light I used in everyone of my quilts. I used this symbols because although life seems like a storm there is always a light and an opening when something goes wrong.

I was honest with what I placed in my quilt squares, however I do wish I would've been more detailed. It was hard for me to express myself visually, because I don't know how to do so in a way where it wouldn't be too depressing.

If I could be able to repeat this project I would change my quilts a bit. I would add more details and more objects and creativity by not taking the style I have chose away.