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my artwork is outta this world

7 Reflection Time

As we come to the end of the school year I must do a reflection for the English class that made this all happen. Here are the questions I answered.

• What did you intend to accomplish with your 20time project? What did you actually accomplish with your 20time project? I wanted to explore painting things that you can't really see/ feel.
• Describe the impact of your project on yourself and others. How could you use what you learned to create a positive change in someone else or the community? My project hopefully impacts others by inspiring them to explore the world around them (or not around them).
• What roadblocks did you run into? What were the areas of the project that were more difficult than you expected them to be? I could not get the blending effect right. There is too much black in one place and not enough black in another place etc.… The white specs are some times to big and I was looking for some consistency
• What new learning, if any, did you gain because of the roadblock? Did the roadblock give you new insight, change the course of the project, etc.? How? I think it would benefit me to get a smaller paint brush. And I should do this project exclusively with oil paint. Because the nature of oil paint is a blending medium.
• Finish this sentence: The thing about this kind of learning that works best for me is….It’s something I do alone, and I can have a quiet environment all by myself with no one watching.
• Finish this sentence: The thing about this kind of learning that is a challenge for me is... It’s hard to come back to painting. It’s hard to stay motivated when things just aren't looking right.
• Would you consider your project a success? A failure? Somewhere in between? Explain your answer. Somewhere in between, I was successful in ways of investigation. But one painting I had very high hopes for and when I couldn't do it, I got discouraged
• Estimate how much time you spent on your 20-Time project per week: five hours about per painting. Sometimes I would spend the full 5 hours on it in one night and sometimes I would do it hour by hour. But I’m very lazy so I rather do it all at once because I hate cleaning my brushes.
• How does what you did in 20-Time connect with the IB Learner Profile (see Moodle or Intro Packet for the IB Learner Profile qualities)? Discuss any and all qualities that apply. Inquirers, I have the skills to paint and I researched by experiment with the paintings. I enjoyed painting and I’m going to give them away as gifts.
• How does what you did in 20-Time show relevant learning in your English class? Things that may apply: written communication, oral communication, collaboration, research skills, technology/digital media skills, reading skills, etc. By blogging with words and pictures I used multimedia to communicate my idea and voice to the world.(or whoever reads my posts)
• What advice would you have for teachers who are doing 20-time projects in the future? What would you tell them that would make the project go more smoothly or more successfully? Do the blog at home and the actual project in class because I had to do most of mine at home which restricted my access to materials. And the blog is just a way to document so maybe a really small word count.
• What advice would you have for students who are doing a 20-time project in the future? What would you tell them that would make the project go more smoothly or more successfully? Pick something that you think is cool even if it’s lame or stupid to others. Because when you’re rich and famous for this they will see how much it means to you and them they will think it’s cool to.
• Will you continue with your independent learning/creating beyond this class? Why or why not? If I do I will have to buy my own materials.

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The 20 time pitch was awesome! I had seven cookies and many cupcakes. If you want me to go someplace make sure there is food.

Here is where I avoided social interaction and just painted. My friend Carolyn Chang (on left) is sitting next to me painting. She grabbed 17+ cookies on the way out and we ate them all... Sometimes I get a little jelly of her work but then I remember the advice of my late great grandmother "She is better than you because she is Asian". Never was a truer word spoken. Carolyn being the smart person she is brought a water cup to rinse her brushes in.  I bought a single water bottle and I proceeded to accidentally take  a swig from it not once but three times, during the hour long event.

This is my latest masterpiece, I don't know what it is supposed to be but, give me a second to make something up. While this watercolor cloud kingdom is not finished yet, it still symbolises the struggle for humanity to explore the world unknown. The human mind continues to fathom the farthest corners of the galaxy. Legend says the gods understand the entire universe. The supreme creatures completely comprehend all the cosmic mysteries. As myth states the mighty deities peer down on lesser beasts and laugh at their ignorance to the world around them.The all powerful beings can see through the fourth dimension and understand what is and what's going to be. This painting is what they actually see.

(heaven has no windows)

5

welcome back to my project I have finished my second Acrylic painting.

"Scotty, beam us up"

 But I'm not really happy with it :/ I don't really know whats wrong with it, but it didn't turn out as expected.
 I have decided to do a abstract watercolor painting. im pretty much done with acrylic im getting a little bored with it.

 Here's a sponge to get a different effect from just a regular paintbrush, but it didn't really work. so I went back to just a simple paintbrush. the sponge soaked up to much of the paint so I had to do a second coat to get the desired darkness.

and you have to stretch the paper so when it dries from all the water it is still flat and not crinkly.

I put rubber cement to repel the watercolor. when your done with painting you can just rub it off and the watercolor painting is still white.

The way I paint abstract watercolor is a special way... (not really) but I get the paper really wet then add the color. It all blends together, I let it dry a bit, then I add detail and definitions. Then if that fails add more color and water. to get the colors I mixed a little bit of black with the color I wanted (like green or blue) to get it very dark

I added white acrylic paint to the white parts to enhance the white stars.

the only thing I need to do now is get a frame/way to present it. 

One day I hope I can paint my ceiling this way

~~Rachel~~

4.5

Here is a quick update! 

Rachel Celeste over and out 

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I really procrastinated this painting and my orange paint dried up. So I am sad.

Here I have fixed the thing that I messed up on

AND THEN I MESSED THE SAME THING UP AGAIN!

I added way to much black and then I got angry. I had to give myself a time out.

added the staircase hence the name "stairway to heaven"

decided on brown stairs, but I need more orange to finish them.

I grounded my paintbrush for messing me up so I can't finish this painting tonight.

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I started a new thing

 painted the background black hella

 here is me messing up.

IM NOT DONE
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