Stencils

For this project we had to find a picture on the computer and put it in photoshop and change the picture to black and white and print it.  Then I projected the picture onto the wall and traced it onto a bigger piece of paper.  We had to either cut out the white or black in the picture with a knife. I had to cut out the white on the picture.  It was hard to cut out because it took a long time.  I had to cut the picture out slowly so I wouldn't accidently cut myself or cut out something I wasn't supposed to.  Then I had to get a piece of wood.  The wood had to be cut into four pieces. We had to use a saw to cut the wood.  It needed to be cut into  two twenty-two inch pieces and two twenty-six inch pieces.  Then I used a hammer and nails to make it into a frame.  Then I took a piece of cardboard and used a staple gun to attach it to the frame.  Then I painted the cardboard and the frame and after it dried I got to spray paint my picture onto the cardboard.  To spray paint it on I put the paper with the picture over the cardboard and sprayed where the picture had been cut out so the picture would then be on the cardboard.   Spray painting the picture was my favorite part of this project.  The picture is of Dobby, the house-elf from Harry Potter.

We made brick pixel drawings.  We worked in groups and each group drew an animal on the wall in the courtyard.  We used chalk to draw the pictures.  We got an image from the computer and pixelated it.  We then drew the picture onto the wall using pixels. One brick would have three pixels.  It was hard to divide the bricks into three pixels because some bricks were smaller than others.  One person would tell the others what color to draw the next pixel.  Two others would color the bricks and the other person would use a paintbrush to brush over the chalk to smooth it out.  When we got towards the top of the picture we had to move the table over and stand on it to be able to reach and only one person could reach so they had to color and brush.  This project was a lot of fun.  I liked coloring with the chalk the most. But the chalk would get all over our hands when we were coloring and and it would go everywhere when we would brush the chalk which we didn't like.  My least favorite part was when we had to pixelate it on the computer because that was really confusing.