Final Class Summary

On our December 17 meeting, only three students were able to attend the class. Therefore, only three presentations were made.

    Orsi, the first student to present, chose an Escher-like repeated tessellation. She explained that she first drew a shape on a paper, and then cut out that shape to use as a tracing tool to repeat the pattern. After the repeated pattern was complete, Orsi gave some of the shapes faces. Then she colored her entire artwork and gave particular colors to those shapes with the face. Some of us saw Cookie monster in those shapes with the face, while others saw Marge from the Simpsons, without the necklace and the tall blue hair.

Professors Hamman and Carter asked questions about Orsi’s artwork. One of the questions they asked her was what she would differently if she had to redo her work, and Orsi replied that she would have made the shapes a bit smaller.

    I was the second person to present after Orsi. I chose to use one point perspective. My drawing depicted a road to infinity beneath a repeated chain of floating boxes. The boxes seemed to be stacked in front of one another and disappeared into the horizon line as they got further away. Professor Carter asked why I left out the tiles from my previous sketch, and I explained that I had tried to do one drawing with the tiles, but that the proportions of the tiles did not come right and the final drawing had looked more like a cobweb. Professor Carter then demonstrated how to connect lines when trying to make tiles.

    Finally, Sara, the third person to present, demonstrated her art work. She also chose a one point perspective. She drew a box with lines that were getting smaller in the middle. She then colored her art work four different colors, and manipulated the colors to be darker as they got closer to the middle. This way, the box appeared to get deeper and deeper infinitely. Sara also shared how she drew her lines and all the steps she took in completing her drawing, including photocopying her drawing onto a different paper and coloring the final copy.

    After we finished our presentation, we ended the class by enjoying the snack Professor Hamman brought. I left the class feeling like Norton Juster when he said about trying to reach infinity:

 “You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.”