FINAL REFLECTION

1. Which project do you consider your most successful? How did you develop your craft with this assignment? What tools, methods and materials were essential to your success with this project? What ideas, feelings or meanings did you want your piece to express? How did you go about expressing it? 
• I consider my texture project my most successful. I used a variety of tools and mediums to really EVOKE the TEXTURAL design within the project. The hammer and hot glue gun were by far my most important tools. They aided the construction project. Paint was important in capturing my color designs. I wanted my piece to express the textures of nature contrasted with the creative design found in the industrial world. I expressed this by using a variety of materials, including shiny metals and rough wood/canvas.
2. Which project was the most challenging? Look at your brainstorming for this project. How does the final work(s) resemble your preliminary sketches? What changed? Why did you make the changes that you did? What problems emerged in the creation of this project? How did you solve the problems?
• The form project was BY FAR the most challenging for me to do. For me, the final work was extremely similar to my drawings. The only changes i made came in detail. It was much more challenging than i previously thought to create the minute textural details that expressed the realist values of a shape. This actually made the project more abstract, which turned out to be what i wanted. Many times i accidentally took off too much plaster, and at one point i had to add back plaster in order to better convey the shape in which i intended.
3. Please discuss three new strengths you've discovered or deepened this year. One formal strength (your ability to work with things like composition, balance, rhythm et cetera), one technical or media-specific strength (working in a specific medium or honing a specific skill) and one conceptual strength (you idea development in the specific project). 
• Evocativity of Balance: I learned to use balance to further develop my projects. I used different contrasting colors, or even opposites, to offset or balance my projects.
• Chisel: I became very good at using the chisel to mold and shape the plaster. The form in which i needed to create was very difficult, and my chisel skill development helped me really evoke the shapes that i wanted.
• Flowing Design: I really pushed myself to use rounded flowing designs in my works, because i enjoy the way it looks. This idea was essential in all of my design processes.