Skill Growth
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• Assignment Name: Blue Bear
• Objective: To create your own creature or person with newspaper. Then to decorate using gesso and paint.• Prompt: Why are all the steps in the process important?lalalaThis project I really enjoyed, because I chose to do a bear as a symbol of the school mascot, but then I was trying to be unique and creative so I painted it blue. First, we had to form the shape/body of the animal/ person/thing we were going to make with pieces of newspaper. For example to make my bear I had to crumble newspaper in a ball for the head and the stomach, and a small ball for the nose. Than I had to roll like 5 long pieces of newspaper for the arms and legs, and use cardboard for the ears to stay hard. After doing that, I had to tape all the pieces together, then cover it all up with white cloth that you wet and than when it dries it turns hard. Then after all that the bear was covered and dried and I started painting it blue. I decorated it in gold light brown, light blue, and grayish. I put a heart mirror in his chest and a sun in his forehead.
lalalaAll the steps in this project were important, because if I would not have followed the steps I would not have been able to complete the bear how I wanted it. And I would not have known how to make my bear sit and be able to keep it the same way it looked when I first finished making it for a long time. I was happy with the results, even though at first I wanted it brown. But then Ms. Lawson suggested for me to make it different and so I chose blue as the color. Maybe if we would have the option of making it out of ceramics it would be more successful looking, but also more difficult.
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