Randi

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“VeltKamp’s Vacation” My Mask Project Randi VeltKamp Art 5th Hour W hy? I picked to do my mask project on my family’s vacation because it means a lot to mean and we do it every year. My mom, dad, two brothers, uncle and grandpa go camping in a camp-site that is right on Lake Superior. Sometimes we go see Tahquamenon Falls and some lighthouses. Last year my mom and I went to the falls and Crisp Point Lighthouse. My family and I always have a lot of fun and make tons of memories while we are up there. P rocedure. My procedure for this project definitely took some thought. From the very beginning I knew what I wanted to do and how I thought it would look like; but by the end it didn’t quite look the way I thought it would. I knew that I wanted to paint my mask to look like Lake Superior but I wanted more then that and I didn’t know what. Thinking back to my past vacations, I remembered that some of my favorites things that we seen was the falls and different lighthouses. I didn’t know how to make a waterfall or a lighthouse but I knew that I didn’t want them to be made out of the same materials. Clay seemed like it would be a good way to make a lighthouse but I didn’t know how to make the waterfall yet. This took a lot of thinking; I finally decided that I would somehow use rocks that I got in the UP to make it. When I got home and got the rocks that I used I figured out the best way to stack them and glue them together and from there I just placed the rocks where they looked and fit the best. I made some mistakes during the process that turned out to be better then if it didn’t happen. For example, I accidently got mod-podge on the wrong place I my mask. When I was mod-podging the picture of my rocks on to my mask after I had already painted the lake and sky, I got some mod-podge on the lake part so I was forced to put it on the rest of the mask. I didn’t plan on putting mod-podge on it so I was upset at first and worried it would mess it up but when it dried it looked really great. It made the sky and lake shiny which made it look like the picture like I wanted it to in the first place. As I went on I thought of more things I could do to the project to make it better. For example, I added little signs that say where the places’ are. I think this really pulled my project together because it tells people where the places are and those places have a lot of signs similar to the ones I made. E valuation. Like I said early, my project did // not //turn out like I had planned for it to, I made a few mistakes that made it better then what I thought it would. I am extremely happy with the way my project turned out. I think I did a good job pulling the whole project together: everything from the colors, to the signs. The only thing that I would change is the rocks on my mask. I mod-podged them on so they got wrinkled, if I could do it again I would try to smooth the paper out more. Overall I am very proud of my project and I’m surprised that it turned out as good as it did.