I sat outside at the tables near the bus stop. I made a picture book of things that I heard since I am a more visual learner. The watch in the beginning is to signify the time and from there I hope you can figure it out. 
Enjoy!
Walking around the Anderson building I spotted alot of patterns from buildings to keys. There were tons of patterns that I would have never noticed just in the little space that I go to everyday.
The Jack and Jill project was a group effort. It was hard to pin down if we wanted to do realistic or abstract but in the end went with abstract.
Our comments during the critique were that
1. Thought that the lines indicated movement but could have been a different shape.
2. Wished there had been something in the back to contrast the white wall.
3. The composition was good overall.
4. Thought that the story was understandable with the shapes.
50 things was a traveling project. I first starting by walking around the neighborhood where class was but my camera died of battery so I thought I would draw some pictures of what I noticed around the classroom building and the last of the pictures were taken where I live.
When I was walking around the neighborhood around the Anderson building what stuck out to me was how much trash there is everywhere. It got me thinking since the trash was in bushes and near flowers and how opposite they look against the other. It doesn’t go at all and the contrast of the two doesn’t work in my opinion. Even the picture that had the straw in it next to the green bushes should blend a little since it is about the same size and look but it doesn’t go at all. Trash should stay in it’s allotted place unless we start designing trash that looks like the plants and ground so it blends in. 
The other thing I noticed while walking around was the vibrant color of both doors and flowers. I also spotted a random little plastic cupcake lying on the ground that caught my eye and thought it was funny and out of place in the center of the side walk. Reminded me of a blog that I look at called Color Me Katie which does random street art just to make people smile.
The drawings I did were of common things that I saw but I wanted to focus in on just them since I usually just pass them by and pay no attention to them. I noticed the lines and design of each object and was amazed at how something so ordinary probably took a lot of time to design and effort.
The pictures that were taken at my house were of things that I also look over. The type of ground I walk on or what I look up to everyday, even the cat that sits outside on the porch are all things that I don’t take time to really examine or appreciate.
The black square problem was hard for me to pin down what I wanted to do. I wanted to take risks but wasn’t sure how and ended up just sticking with black. It was fun to think of ideas for describing words but had a hard time doing it with just four squares. I tried to play with designs within my four squares for the playful word and for the increase one I tried to make it so that the squares didn’t stick out. So here’s my black squares!
I really liked this project. It was alot of fun working with India Ink and going through the process of deciding which design was the best. I wish I had done things differently with my design but overall I am happy with it and glad it looked clean. I have never used India Ink before so I was very afraid I was going to smudge it everywhere but luckily that only happened a few times and it was very small on my board. Here are my ideas of different options that I could have done and then the final will be at the end. The comments that were said in class about mine were that it looked very checkerboardish and that I could have skipped using the grid lines to open up the piece better. They liked the craftmanship and that it made you keep looking but that the focal point should have followed the rule of thirds and not been at the very top or since it was should have been left completely white.