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Stencils

stencils is a thin sheet of cardboard, plastic, or metal with a pattern or letters cut out of it, used to produce the cut design on the surface below by the application of ink or paint through the holes. Stencil is more accurate than actually painting when it come to mass production or work with less time. 

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Street Art/Graffiti

Street Art is what we can see all over the place today but it started during the 1930s. Street art is art painted on street or city often using spray paint. Graffiti on the other hand is not considered art but scribble of names or writing on walls illegally. The main artist are King Robbo and Banksy both from England. King Robbo's work is considered as Graffiti while Banksy's work is considered street art.

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Color theory
color theory is about what are the different colors and the color schemes
there are 12 colors in the color wheel.
3 primary : 3 colors that make up every other color : red, yellow, blue
3 secondary : 3 colors that are made up of two of the primary color : orange, green, violet
6 tertiary : 6 colors made up of primary and secondary colors : red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet.

Color schemes are the relationship between different colors. There are six main types of color schemes
Complementary: color opposite to each other
Rectangle: two pairs of complementary colors that doesn't have same distance between each of the colors
Square: two pairs of complementary colors that have same distance between each of the colors
Triadic: 3 colors that have equal distance between each other
Analogous: color next to each other
Split Complementary: one color with two analogous color of the complement but not the complement.

Value is the lightness or darkness of colors. Intensity is the brightness and dullness of colors.
Shade is to add black to a color
Tint is to add white to a color
Tone is to add grey to a color

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Pop Art

Facts, History, Major Artists.

Pop art first start in Britain in the 1950s then spread to NewYork in the mid 50s and ended in the 1960s.

Pop Art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. "Pop Art are based on modern popular culture and the mass media."

Pop Art uses a lot of colors. Techniques like silkscreen printing was used by Andy Warhol and was the most popular technique. 

Pop art is the reaction to the ideas of abstract expressionism.

When thinking of Pop Art, we think on Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol was the most successful artist in New York and he was the one who bring the Pop CUlture into life. His Major work like the screenprinted images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories. His first work that catches people attention was the soup can where he put up soup cans picture with little different in each picture.

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When was watercolor invented? 
Watercolor can be described of as water added with color or pigments. The use of water added with pigments goes back to the caveman. There is no exact date of when the caveman starts to use watercolor but it was sure very long ago before us. These Primitive men used pigments mixed with water to create cave paintings by applying the paint with fingers, sticks, and bones.  After that, the ancient Egyptians used water-based paints to decorate the walls of temples and tombs and created some of the first works on paper, made of papyrus. 

Who is a watercolor artist you like?

I like Van Gogh's watercolor painting, the Langlois Bridge at Arles. So my preferred artist is Van Gogh. His skills in outlining and adding details with the water and the bridge. His skills in making the clouds with his techniques and many more.

The techniques for watercolor and your strengths and weaknesses with this media.

In class, we learned around 14 techniques.
1.  Flat wash
2.  Wet on Wet
3.  Graded wash
4.  Wax resist
5.  Dry brush
6.  3 colors graded
7.  Sgraffito
8.  Dabbing with tissue
9.  Wet on dry
10. Straw
11. Salt 
12.  Spattering
13.  Alcohol
14.  Stamping

My worst one will be the alcohol because I cannot make the paint spread out from the alcohol but it will mix together leaving a little alcohol line but not good enough to be seen without paying very close attention.
My favorite technique is the graded wash because the change in value is very appealing and looks very good in my perspective and I think that I have done a good job.

Interesting facts/trivia/info about watercolor
wWater color is not hard to make. You can make your own watercolor by 1. A pile of pure ground pigment on a glass palette. 2. Add gum arabic. 3. Add water. 4. Mix with a spatula. Adding a few drops of rubbing alcohol helps the pigments disperse. 5. The result resembles watercolor from tubes. 6. The resulting watercolor paint applied to watercolor paper using a paintbrush.

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What is the history of ideas?

The history of ideas is a field of research about expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. 

History of Ideas - ART:
Art started long ago as long as the medieval time. Back then, art was used as a form of advertisement to spread religious ideas.  this image shows a picture of Jesus helping a woman. This helps people know about Jesus as kind and caring. Then after that, art was brought into politics, used as propaganda toward certain government. This picture is an example of an artwork that is used for political means. Then came a guy named Théophile Gautier who argues that art shouldn't be use for religious or political means, but instead, should be used as art. "Art must free itself from the poisonous agendas of religions and governments." which he stated in French as 

"L'art pour L'art" which means art for art's sake

What is Art?

Art is how human express ideas or creativity. In visual form such as painting or sculptures.In performing forms such as acting or singing.

L'homme qui te resemble de René Philombe

L'homme qui te resemble de René Philombe

J’ai frappé à ta porte
J’ai frappé à ton coeur
Pour avoir un bon lit
Pour avoir un bon feu
Pourquoi me repousser?

Ouvre-moi mon frère !…
 

Pourquoi me demander
Si je suis d’Afrique
Si je suis d’Amérique
Si je suis d’Asie
Si je suis d’Europe ?
Ouvre moi mon frère !..

Pourquoi me demander
La longueur de mon nez
L’épaisseur de ma bouche
La couleur de ma peau
Et le nom de mes dieux,
Ouvre-moi mon frère !…

Je ne suis pas un noir
Je ne suis pas un rouge
Je ne suis pas un jaune
Je ne suis pas un blanc
Mais je ne suis qu’un homme
Ouvre-moi mon frère !…

Ouvre-moi ta porte
Ouvre-moi ton coeur
Car je suis un homme
L’homme de tous les temps
L’homme de tous les cieux
L’homme qui te ressemble !

translation

I knocked at your door
I knocked at your heart
So that I may have a good bed,
So that I may have a warm fire
Why do you refuse me?
Let me in brother!

Why do you ask
If I am African
If I am American
If I am Asian
If I am European?
Let me in brother!

Why do you ask
The length of my nose
The thickness of my mouth
The color of my skin
And the name of my gods?
Let me in brother!

I am not black
I am not red
I am not white
But I am only a man
Let me in brother!

Let me in your door
Let me into your heart
Because I am a man
The man of all times
the man of all the heavens
the man who resembles you

This poem is written by an African man name René Philombe. This poem talks about racism and equality. Everybody is the same. Why do people act differently for different people by how they look, or their nationality, or the color of their skin. This poem promotes equality. All men are the same, all of us are human. I agreed with this poem because I think we are all human, we speak human language, the inside of us is the same, we all, in the end, turn so the same kind of white skeleton and soon decompose to the earth. 

A Triumphant First Launch for Elon Musk's Giant Rocket: science summary

A Triumphant First Launch for Elon Musk's Giant Rocket.

On February six at 3:45 PM, a rocket model was brought to life by SpaceX by Elon Musk.  This rocket is called the falcon heavy and is currently holding the title of the world's most powerful rocket right now over the Delta IV Heavy and the Saturn V. Apart from the strength, the Falcon is capable of lifting more weight than other rockets and have the cheapest launch price at only $90 million compare to the Delta IV Heavy at $400 million.

After the Falcon flies up to space, the side boosters detached from the rocket and land safely to earth just around 10 minutes after liftoff. But the center booster which was supposed to land down on a ship in the ocean went off by 100 meters from the ship, hit and sank into the ocean.  

Before the day of the launch, Elon Musk was feeling confident and happy about the Falcon's launch which came out well. With the booster detached and back to earth, the upper stage of the rocket with the Tesla car inside orbiting. Then the rocket will fire the engine for the Tesla to go to the orbit around the sun between Earth and Mars. Which Musk expects to orbit for millions of years.

Many was expecting the Falcon to likely burst into flames after all those failures like the explosions in 2015 and 2016 destroyed many things.

Long ago since the 1960s, the idea that a company other than the government can work on rockets and launch it to space was impossible. But SpaceX turned into a normal habit.

Semester 2 goal

last semester, my grades are not as high as i like. i think it is because i dont participate enough in class, this semester, i will try to get my habit of mind grade to all E by participating, listening and doing work in school.

S.M.A.R.T goal

LA14/12/17

I am currently reading paper town.
My goal is to finish the book over the break

Coconut chiffon

Ingredients:

• 70g Cake flour 
• 1tsp baking powder
• 1tbsp milk powder
• 3 egg ylok
• 40g sugar
• 60g coconut water
• 40g oil
• 1tsp vanilla

• 3 egg white
• 1/4 cream of tartar
• 60g sugar

• whipping cream
• icing

Procedures:

1. mix everything on the first list together
2. in another bowl, mix egg white and cream of tartar with a beater
3. when it is a little thick, add sugar and continue to beat until it is stiff peaks
4. add it to the mix. Stir well
5. add butter to the pan
6. pour the mix into the pan
7. add coconut meat
8. bake 
9. add ice to a bowl, put another bowl inside it
10. Add whip cream and icing and mix until stiff peaks
11. take out the cake and put the whip on top
12. ready to eat!

Improve :
eat since hot will be better because the cake is fluffy and warm.
add more coconut meat and add flavors to the whip.

Women rights around the world

This week, we learned about women's right. There are lots of country in the world that doesn't have equal right between women and men. We learn about them in Asia, North America, Europe, and Africa. I and my group got assigned to Europe. We study and found out that Europe doesn't have a lot of problems with women rights. But have some in less developed country. One country that really pops out is Andora, Andora doesn't have equal rights in government or jobs. Some sexual violence but not as harsh as in Africa. In Africa, women can't go to school, they don't have their rights, the cant stand up for themselves so over thousands and thousands of women get child marriage and rape, worse of all, they have traditions of genital mutilation which is used to control women from having something with men because men can't control themselves. Or in Asia, men think that women are nothing but a housewife and take care of children. And lastly, in North America, that women are being domestically abused. All these problems happen because of men. They feel like they are in power and women are under them. Or like the genital mutilation, if men learn to control themselves, so to improve this, we should have laws and educated men and women.

ice cream reflection

ingredients
1/2 cup whipping cream
1⁄2 cup of whole milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ziplock bag
1 rectangular storage prism
1/2 cup salt
Ice cubes

Directions:
Step 1:
Combine the whipping cream, milk, sugar and vanilla extract in the ziplock bag. Seal the
bag tightly, so that none of the liquid will leak out. Place that ziplock bag into an
additional ziplock bag.

Step 2:
Fill the prism halfway with ice cubes. Sprinkle salt over the ice cubes.

Step 3:
Place the whole ziplock bag filled with ingredients into the prism of ice and salt. Seal the
prism. Wrap a towel around the prism to reduce the mess.

Step 4:
Shake the prism for 5-10 minutes until the ice cream mixture begins to harden.

to improve: shake better and don't spill, use a lot of salt.

lets make an alfredo spaghetti

ingredients

1. spaghetti - 1 bag
2.  milk - 1
3. butter - 1/2 cup
4. cheese - 1 pack
5. garlic - 3 clove
6. salt - 1 teaspoon
7. oil - 1 teaspoon

steps

1. boil water with salt and oil 
2. boil the spaghetti in that water
3. melt butter in pan, add crushed garlic 
4. add cheese and milk
5. add salt 
6. dry the spaghetti when its done
7. add it to the sauce
8. mix well and ready to eat

to improve

• use less cheese
• make more spaghetti 
• make less thick

make la-sag-ne? La-sag-ne!

Ingredients:
-Lasagna pasta
-tomato paste
-mushroom
-onion
-water
-cheddar
-mozzarella
-salt
-olive oil

steps

1. boil lasagna in boiling water and add a pinch of salt
2. shop mushrooms, tomatoes, and onion into little cubes
3. add a teaspoon of olive oil then add the mushroom, tomatoes, and onions until cook
4. after cooked, add the tomato paste until it is mixed
5. add water so that it is not too sticky 
6. add some salt and pepper for flavor
7. start putting the lasagna together start with the pasta, some sauce and cheese then more pasta, sauce, cheese, and pasta then top the last layer with a lot of CHEESE!
8. bake for 210 degrees celcius for 50 minutes and your lasagna is ready

To improve, we should make it sweeter, not by adding sugar but add more onion to get the natural sweetness. Also, add more meat because we cant feel anything but sauce.

YumYum!!

My way of annotating

When annotating, I use highlighter, sticky notes, small bookmarkers and pen or pencil. When I annotate, I divide my highlighter into different colors that mean different things. Some to highlight the main idea, the conflict, the character name, the shocking things or the development in the story. Then I/ use my sticky note to write my opinion about the text or use to a summary a little bit if it gets complicated. Then I use the small bookmarkers to mark the important pages such as the conflict page or other interesting pages so I can see easily. Also, I use the same color of highlighter and bookmarkers for the same topic of use so it is even more clear and easy to see and find.

                                   

Making Quesadilla!

Quesadilla

Ingredients for the shell--

1 and 1/2 cups of flour
1/2 cup of water
1 and 1/2 tbsp of oil
1 and 1/2 tsp of sugar
1 tsp of salt

Ingredients for the filling--

chopped mushroom
chopped cheese
chopped tomato
lime

Procedure

1. Mix the shell ingredient into a dough
2. Roll the dough until thin
3. cut it into a circle
4. heat the pan and put some butter in it
5. cook one side of the shell and flip it
6. add the filling while the other side of the shell is cooking
7. fold it and cook both sides again
8. your quesadilla is ready

To improve: 

• Adding lime and cheese is not a very yummy and good texture combination as the cheese all get too weird pieces with water in it
• sour and salty doesn't go together that well
• our dough is also too thick and it turns into a very thick bread

Future profession

I want to be a businesswoman. Because you improve business and help the country to have more money and improve. Lastly, you get lots of money :))))

Salsa invension

Today, we are making Salsa!!!!!!

Let's start with the ingredients, we need the salsa sauce and the tortilla chips

For the salsa, we need

• Some mushrooms (not cooked)
• Tomatoes
• Limes
• Cilantro
• Garlic salt
• Sugar

Procedure:

1. Cut the mushrooms and tomatoes into small little pieces
2. Add lime, garlic salt and sugar and some Cilantro 
3. Mix them together and the sauce is ready.

Mix all the ingredients together.

Note that the ingredients for the salsa sauce don't have to be fixed so you can adjust how much you want.

For the tortilla chips, we need

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1 1/2 tsp of sugar
• 1 1/2 tbsp of olive oil
• Pure drinking water

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together
3. Add drinking water until the mix forms a hard dough.
4. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough until it gets very thin
5. Cut the dough into triangle shape
6. Bake the chips until it is cook
7. Eat your chips with the salsa

Some things that could be done better is adding maybe some grains or other things to the chips so it looks better and tastes better, the salsa is also a little too Thai-ish which makes it taste like tom yum adding less sugar and lime will help. Also, our chips were not thin enough which makes it very hard to eat.

The Enlightenment

The enlightenment is the period where there is a smart movement that people learn about reasons instead of god. Humanism instead of superstition things. Study about individualism, skepticism, and science. The period of changing in politics, from monarchy, kings, and queens into Democracy where people all have equal rights. Mainly a smart change that help the world