Project Overview
My Project Overview
- My project will be something that represents our grade. This will have something to do with how our senior year went and what we had to deal with in our high school experience. Something that comes to mind is this pandemic. We lost the last few months of our junior year and now we are pretty much-getting nothing for our senior year. I want to do this project because it is something that is a special connection for each grade. This is a great building experience for me because this painting is so different from my other paintings. This is because there are so many different steps that go into this. I can not just come up with an idea and paint it.
- I hope that this helps me become a better person and become more mentally healthy. I think that this project is a great thing for me to do because it is something that has caught my interest for a while now. This project will have detail and it will have different elements that represent my class and myself personally. The mural for the school will be something for me to look back on and say “yeah I created that” and it will be a good high school memory for me. I am not completely sure what it is going to be but I am going to try my very best to create something that will represent the school and my grade.
- I picked this area of study because I like art and it helps me calm down. I hope to learn more about what goes into this project. This project will be good for me because throughout my high school years I have been very quiet and I think that this will help me learn how to express myself. I also picked this area of study because it is something that I have an interest in and I have been thinking about doing the mural for a long time. Even though this does not really relate to my career I think that I will still learn different things from it.
- My background on this is that I have done lots of art in my life. One thing I already know about this project is that I will have to design it and then send my design to National Fleet Graphics. They then will create something to go on
- This project is a stretch for me because I have never really pained anything that has to be based on something. Doing the class mural helps me go out of my comfort zone. Going through what I have gone through these past 4 months will help me express myself. This is a way for me to express emotions in a way that will connect with my grade. I feel like the mural is also a big stretch for me because when doing this there is a lot of pressure. There is pressure from my grade to make sure I create something that they like and there is pressure from the school to create something that is fitting for our school. Even though this is out of my comfort zone I believe that it will be good for me.
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Best and Worst of Senior Project/Senior Seminar?
- The best part about my senior project was seeing the finished product and seeing what my class mural is going to look like. This was such and exciting feeling and it made me feel so accomplished
- The worst part was being rushed to finish my project because I am a perfectionist and when it comes to painting I like to make sure that everything is perfect.
- One thing that I know after finishing my senior project is that this process is a lot more complicated and stressful than I thought it would be.
- When doing this project I learned that
- When it came to the last step of meeting with national fleet graphics I would say this was the most challenging part. This is because I painted the mural on three separate canvases to make the size right for when it gets put up and I sent the idea to national fleet graphics. After they received my idea they came up with a layout of what it was going to look like and I did not like the idea that they came up with because it was not my design. I then emailed Mr. Lutterman and the person from National Fleet Graphics and asked them if it would be possible to remove the black likes that separated the difference canvases. I gave them different ideas I could do to get it the way I want. One idea was taking the canvas material off the canvas boards and line everything up to make it work the way I wanted. They took my idea and they made it the way I wanted and then the mural turned out good.
- Doing the class mural definitely changed my perspective on art. I went into this thinking that it would be easy because I have done a lot of art before but, after finishing this I realized that it was a lot more complicated than I had anticipated. I give credit to all the people who do this for a living because it is hard to come up with different ideas for things and it takes a lot of imagination to come up with something good.
- After taking the Senior Seminar class I learned more about how to finance and how to use skills we know to help us with the future. This class also helped me with my presentation skills and it gave me more confidence when it came to presenting.
- I would not say that this experience influenced nor changed my future. This is because I have always wanted to go into nursing and art has always been something I have been really interested in. I think that maybe in the future I might want to do something with art such as photography for fun but not change my career totally. I like art and I want to work with kids so this might be something that would work good together in the future.
- Something I would do differently if I was to do this project again is I would make the things in the sky with a bit more color because they are kind of plain but that is the point. They are supposed to represent clouds in the sky and they are very minimalist. having too much color would have made it really hard to focus on anything because the background is already really colorful. I would maybe also do the painting on a different canvas so that it is easier to have everything because having it on three different canvases made it harder to connect everything to see how it would look. Overall, I like the finished product and these are just very small things that I would change if I had to.
- Some advice that I have for next years seniors is pick a project that you are actually interested in and then this will make it easier for you to get it done.
- I would also recommend that you do not procrastinate and just get everything done before the end of the year. This will relieve so much stress and you will have a better project.
- I would give myself a 10/10 because I tried my very best on this project and I am so proud of how it turned out. I made sure everything was done to the best of its abilities and I did not half do the project. This project was a challenge for me and I did not give up half way through I finished it and I made sure that it was something good that would represent my class.