The overall composition of my final print is balanced. The amount of negative space is similar to the amount of positive space in the foreground, middleground, and background. The print also has unity, each part of the print flows to the next instead of just being a bunch of random shapes. I added texture and contrast to my print by carving lines of different size into the bark of the log and carving lines into the shell of the snail. I added contrast by carving different textures into each part of the print and switching from positive to negatve space so that there wasn't any positive on positive or negative on negative. This is important because it makes the print more life lke and makes the snail easier to see. I used positive and negative space to show my image by surrounding positive space with negative space and negative space with positive space. I think that the craftsmanship of my print is neat, although some of the prints are smudged. I added texture and contrast and carved all of my lines neat and straight. I don;t think that I was able to achieve depth because in real life the grass would be much bigger than the snail if it was in the foreground. Also, the rocks are too big. Since they are in the background they should be much smaller. While printmaking I had trouble figuring out how to show texture because I had never drawn texture before and I didn't know what it was supposed to look like. An advantage I had during this project was that I knew how to carve and print becasue I did printmaking twice in middle school.
I like that we got to work on a team for this project because it would have taken a painfully long time to finish the chalk mural if we did them on our own. We all shared our ideas about what to do a mural on and then shared our ideas on how to make each one better. We each worked on different parts of the mural and then at the very end we discussed how to make it all come together. It is important to collaborate while working on a team because it allows ideas to be improved. It is also important because if you don't collaborate everybody will end up doing something different. If you collaborate while on a team then you can get things done faster and improve the quality of your work. This project was fairly successful in my opinion.The leaning tower turned out good, but the colors were a little off. I also think that the mural wasn't as realistic as it could be, but it still looks nice. I like making artwork that people can interact with because it's nice to know that my art is being used and isn't just something that hangs on the wall. I also like being able to make something that other people can use and have fun with. It is also a lot of fun to make something that you can mess around with when you are finished.
It is important to have texture in your sketches because it brings the animal and background to life. It shows the details in the object you are drawing in order to show what it really looks like, not just have an outline. It is necessary for you to have several references of each animal and background because it allows you to combine them in order to make your own unique drawing. When I look at my skecthces I can see that my hedgehog will make the best print because it has the most contrast and the most texture out of the three.
