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Out of all of the pictures I could have done I chose to do this one because it was a calming and simple picture that wasn't busy and difficult to complete. I think that my most successful piece is my line drawing. It is the basis that I made all of the others from. I feel more confident in that fact that I didn’t have to worry about the shade or color of the picture and could focus on where each line matched up to one another. My tile, I think, is my least favorite work because I hade a vision of what I wanted it to look like in my head, but when I was making it, I couldn’t seem to mold the cay into the shape I wanted. This is also true because I hurried to get it done when I was behind in my schoolwork. The first problem I encountered while constructing these was when I finding a picture to base my project on. I liked surrealism art, so I naturally looked it up on Google and found M.C. Escher. I planned on doing one of his, but when I asked he was already taken. Then I kept my search for surrealist pictures, but couldn’t find anything that I wanted to do or felt that I could do. Feeling the pressure of time I decided to type in art into Google. After many pages of famous art works I stumbled upon Marinella Owen’s flower. Even though it wasn’t surreal I liked how it was smooth, calm and relaxed. Another Problem that I encountered was during the clay portion of the project. I had trouble getting the clay out of tight spaces in the tile. What I ended up doing was after I let it dry, used a thin metal tool to scrape the extra clay out. The tile afterwards turned out fine. Not exactly hoe I wanted it, but well enough that I am proud of it. Now that I have completed many different works of art using different I look at for its components, such as lines, shape, and the use of light and dark. Before I would look only at the detail that the artist put into their artwork. Now I analyze how they used their space, the lines that were used to create structures and other objects within the art. media type="custom" key="10804214" Marinella Owens March 8 1975 I decided to make my pinwheel about what I thought peace was. To me peace is balance. If there wasn’t balance, then an object would fall or a group of people would feel mistreated because of it. This is what brings on war and violence toward others. If balance is maintained then peace kept. With all of this in mind I made the front of my pinwheel a black and white ying yang symbol. On the back I drew the earth, sun, and moon. The sun was added because it is the source of what gives us light in the day, while the moon was added because it acts as the opposite force for the sun. During the construction of my pinwheel I ran into some problems. The first one was what to put on my pinwheel. I thought about things that dealt with nature and what gives us peace, but they didn’t really connect with me. So I asked my self how is peace kept. And then I conjured the idea to create a pinwheel about balance. Another problem was finding the right object to hold my pinwheel up. I was stumped so I asked my mother and we spent a half an hour looking for something that would work. Sense it was getting close to the dead line, we chose to use an old blind closer.