Self Portrait

For this project Miguel and I worked together to create our face. It was supposed to be our faces cut in half and put together, but the bottle caps were too big to add that much detail. We used different colored bottle caps for each side of the face to create a contrast. We had to spray paint the bottle caps before we glued them on because the caps on their own we're not different enough to create a face. We chose bottle caps because I had a lot of them at my house and I thought they would look cool. The caps turned out to be difficult to work with because they were almost too big to make it look like a face. Lastly, we added newspaper and magazine cutouts to the background so it wasn't just a blank piece of cardboard. 

Sticky Situation

For this project I painted a flat tire with tools to fix the flat tire. I used acrylic paint to make the picture. I had some other ideas like a broken bridge and a tornado. I chose a flat tire because it looked like the best idea and I thought it would look the best. The theme was repetition, and I accomplished this with the bike spokes and the multiple tools. I had trouble creating value with the paint and the shadows. And I tried to used many colors so the tools weren't all grey along with the road. The mini lessons helped in choosing which paint I wanted to use and gave me a little practice with using paint again.