Sunday, May 8, 2011

Recycled Childs Toy

I chose to make and airplane piggy bank as my childs toy. Growing up I was one of the few girls in my family and my brother and cousins would always play with airplanes and racecars. So I decided that I wanted to make an airplane some how. First I started with a plastic soda bottle and then found some cardboard boxes (frosted flakes box). Then i started to cut out the shapes for the wings and then hot glued them onto the bottle. I cut out slits for them so they could be glued inside the bottle itself so it was a more durable toy. Then I added on the landing gear and colored stars onto the wings. After looking at the final project it would have taken away from the plastic bottle if the cap was covered so I am happy with the results of this final project. I wish I was able to take more pictures, but during the beginning process of making this plan I didn't have my camera with me and I appologize for that.

Polyhedral Masks/Polyhedral Wall

I really enjoied this project, this one had to be my favorite overall project for this semester. The objective of this project was to make a mask out of polyhedral shapes. It could be any type of mask that you wished. I started with a seven sided flat figure and then built trianglular polyhedrals off the sides to make the mane for the lion mask i was creating. With adding paint to the polyhedral mask




it brought it to life. I wish that i could have added more details onto the actual face of the lion to make it look more realistic. Another porject that we did similar to this one was to make a wall out of polyhedral shapes. I used a simple diamond shaped polyhedral and with each one i cut out different shapes into it. This was not my favorite project that we did in the class but it wasnt terrible.