Mi Casa

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1. Hay un horno en la casa. 
2. Tiene una ventana en la casa. 
3. No hay dos ventanas en la casa. 
4. Hay un teléfono en la casa. 
5. Hay un ático en la casa. 
6. No hay tres dormitorio en la casa. 

Negative Space Drawings and Reflection

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Negative Space is the space that does not make up the actual drawing, the in between space that's not the forefront of the image. In the negative space drawing I coloured in the negative space, and in the negative space cut-out, the negative space was the on one half of the image was black and the negative space on the other half of the image was the colour of the positive space in the first half of the image. It helps an artist to see in negative space because it helps make  more accurate art -  mostly because you’re not just drawing what you think you should be drawing.

Negative Space Reflection

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Negative space is the space around an object of a picture or drawing. In a negative space drawing, there are always two solid colors for the drawing. Two of the main colors used for negative space drawings are black and white. In my cut out picture of the owl, all of the black in the picture is negative space. In the regular negative space picture, the negative space is is all the black around the objects. If an artist can see the difference between negative space and the actual object, it would make it easier to tell what the object is and it would be easier for them to draw it. Negative space gives the artist different perspectives and point of views to improve on. 

Negative Space Drawing and Cut Out Picture

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Negative space is everything in a picture besides the main focus. This helps define the subject of a picture and draws in your eye to see the subject clearly.

I found negative space in my cut out picture and in my stool drawing by looking through the subject. For the cut out piece I focused on making the complete picture by seeing what was around the subject and not all of the details inside of it. I actually used the opposite technique in my stool drawing. I drew all of the details, also known as positive space, and then erased them as the negative space around it started to appear.  

It helps an artist to see in negative space so that it is easier to draw or paint a subject. When they can see and recognize negative space, they can sketch everything around it so that then they have an outline. From there the artist can easily focus on details inside of the outline and finish the piece.

Negative space is useful in creating art because it allows you to see what you are creating in a new light and different perspective. For example in my stool and table drawing, when I first started drawing I drew every detail. Then as I began to erase the positive space, I saw everything morphed together to form one cohesive picture. It is really interesting to first see a picture one way, and realize it can be something completely different. Negative space has the ability to draw in someone's eye to a picture and make them really see what is there.

Q4 Artículo #6: Cerveza

23/5/14

Quarter 4

Alejandro Marothy

Señorita Manuel

Cerveza


Este artículo se trataba cerveza. Es la semana de la cerveza de Filadelfia, y esto significa que cada uno bebe mucha cerveza. Mmm, cerveza. ¿Quién no le gusta una cerveza fría al final del día? Espero que nadie. Filadelfia les gusta la cerveza, eso es definitivo. Muchos viejos borrachos pasar todo su tiempo en un bar llamado “Monk’s Cafe” y beben cerveza con 300 opciones diferentes. ¡Vaya, vaya, vaya, vaya! Estos hombres saben cómo vivir. Tienes que amar a Filadelfia. Nos gusta la cerveza, tomamos mucha cerveza, cerveza cerveza cerveza cerveza cerveza. ¡Filadelfia es fantástico! 

¿Pero este es el significado de la vida? ¿Si hay un GOD, nos puso aquí con cerbeza para nosotros a beber esto y nos divertimos y vivir en Filadelifa? ¿O es un pecado mortal, es un acto castigado por sufrimiento ETERNO en fuego? Sería mejor si fuera la primera. Permítanos ignorar le segunda opción. Gracias a GOD, gracias por darnos vida y cerveza, porque sin cerveza, la vida sería Infierno. ¡Jajajaja, es una broma! ¿Entiendes la broma? Porque podríamos haber ir al Infierno porque beber cerveza, pero sin cerveza la vida misma sería Infierno. Es una idea muy gracioso pero también muy inteligente, porque se trata de si algo que vale la pena, y cuál es el reisgo. Interesante. Interestante.


Número de Palabras: 215


Trabajo Citado

Ana Gamboa. "Latino News and Opinion." Una No Es Ninguna. Al Día, 22 May 2014. Web. 22 May 2014. http://www.pontealdia.com/philadelphia/una-no-es-ninguna.html

Environmental Justice- Au Team 1

​        Ecoliteracy is defined as being able to understand the principles that govern the organization of ecological communities.  This is a topic that must be addressed in general, and is being closely looked at in our classroom because having a grasp on ecoliteracy will help all of us respect and understand the environments we live in. 

        Humanity is slowly bleeding the Earth dry. We abuse the resources of the Earth and take it from it without giving back. For example people think that one cut down tree is nothing, they don’t understand that in that tree lives hundreds of organisms and that the tree is a basis for life.

        Due to the dangerous nature of mankind's actions we are affecting various ecological principles which are key to ecosystems. One major one is flow of energy. We disrupt the flow of energy in ecosystems when we harm the communities environment. For example the fish in the BP oil Spill. We also affect the networks which coexist in the biosphere. When we cut down tree’s we are destroying the habitats of organisms who live in the tree and likewise those that survived on the energy of those organisms. It disrupts the entire system. By affecting these two principles we are also ruining the dynamic balance of these ecosystems. When the tree’s are chopped down eventually the numbers of all populations there die down in response to the loss of tree’s. 

        Humanity needs to change, we are making the biosphere uninhabitable. If we want to survive then we need to change how we treat this Earth. This is the only planet we have. We need to make it last as long as possible because there is only one Earth. Ecoliteracy is defined as being able to understand the principles that govern the organization of ecological communities.  This is a topic that must be addressed in general, and is being closely looked at in our classroom because having a grasp on Ecoliteracy will help all of us respect and understand the environments we live in. 

http://ecoliteracy.wikispaces.com/Au+-+Team+1

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deforestation and lungs

Negative Drawing and Cutout

Negative space is the empty space around an object or the objects surroundings.  It allows the eye to see the main part of the drawing.


In my cut out, I found the negative space by cutting out the pieces that were shaded in darker and using that on the left side of the page so that the blue would be the focus and the black paper was the negative space.  For the other side I did the complete opposite by cutting out the other part and then using the blue as the negative space.  For the stool drawing, I drew the still life first and then colored in all the space around it.


It helps an artist to use negative space because it makes their illustrations more accurate.  It also allows artist to focus themselves and their drawings.


Negative space is useful in creating art because it makes your drawings more precise and accurate.  It also allows you to see what you’re doing in a different way.


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Card Q4 Benchmark

  • What did you set out to do? - I wanted people to know more about my mom and all the things in which she does in her life.
  • How does your work incorporate the art of storytelling?- It gives people a look at someones personal life and lets them be able to explore deeper into this persons thoughts and possibly make different stories and get different ideas from it. 
  • What do you hope your audience gains from your work?- To see the life my mom lives and see how it effects me.
  • What did you gain from doing this work. - Getting a deeper understanding of what my mom actually does.

Negative Space Reflection

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A. What is negative space?

Negative space is the part of a drawing or photograph that surrounds an object. It helps to highlight the image and draw attention to multiple parts of it, in a way that makes it look simple. Negative spaces lets you see the outline of the  

B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?

1. In my cutout, I was able to find the negative space by looking at the stencil and identifying the two different colors. Based on those colors, I could see that the white shapes were the negative space and the dark grey areas were the objects. This helped me figure out what I should cut and how it compares/fits in with the other spaces.

2. In my stool drawing, I found the negative space by looking at the things behind the still life. This made it so that I was able to focus on the outline of the shapes. I shaded in the space that wasn’t part of the main objects in the drawing, which is the negative space.

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?

It helps an artist to see in negative space because it adds depth to the drawing or photograph. You get to see some parts of the drawing that you wouldn’t usually be looking at.

D. How is negative space useful in creating art?

When creating art, you can do some very creative techniques with negative space to add depth and interesting aspects to your drawing. One thing that an artist can do is utilize the negative space to make the viewer see multiple images in the drawing.

A Chapter of my Life


  Growing up I never really had the childhood I ever wanted . When I was 5 my parents got a divorce. They went their separate way. My father went to stay at his sister house. My mother moved back with her parents. And as for me and two youngest siblings, we stayed with our mother. When my parents separated we was too young to understand or know the reason why. We just know that my parents hated each other. They never spoke about it. Nor the family. All i ever saw was when my father came to visit my mother never spoke to him. She acts if he’s not there. As days passes my parents never spoke to each other. My father didn’t come as much and my mother moved on and didn’t care as much.

   When my father left I never understood why he had to. He and my mother should of slept in different rooms. It would of made things better.  When he came to visit the only time I ever saw him was every two weeks or every other month. Whenever he came he would take me and my brothers out shopping, out to eat and do all the other stuff. When he was done he would leave and we would not see him until the next two weeks or month . He always told us before he left that he was going to work to make money to take us out again. The hours we spent with my dad were the best times ever. We did so many things and it was one of the most unforgettable things ever. Even though he wasn't around like he was suppose to he would always talk to us. Tell us how we should be. Don't be like him and my mom . He wanted us to Grow up and be somebody. Have a good life . Go to school . And to make sure I listen to my grandmother"Everything he told us,we would listen . My father wasn't a bad father, even though he wasn't around he would tell us right from wrong .

  I remembered when he took us fishing it was something really unexpected. Before we got to the place I pictured it with trees,  the lake and a deck where we can sit and fish. But Instead of that when we got there, comes to find out we were at the back of the airport at a dirty river fishing for fun. We never really caught anything. But we did still enjoyed ourselves. Another time was when we went to his sister house. She had a party and he thought us how to climb on the walls in the hallway where we would put one foot up against one side of the wall as the other foot on the other side of the wall . And we would repeat the same steps until we touched the ceiling. We kept doing until we grew tired of playing. That night when we stop his sister started to scream out my fathers name and it scared the hell out of us because we thought something had happen to her. But instead she was screaming his name because there were foot prints all over the side of each wall from our dirty feet. She just kept yelling and yelling and yelling until my dad agreed to buy paint and repaint the walls.  It was hilarious because as my father was painting he still would crack jokes and make everything more exciting.  Although my father wasn't around as he was suppose to, he still acted like one. He would still come around take us out, and made sure we make the best of it.

 My mother on the other hand. She wasn't around as much as she was suppose to nor how my dad was . Even though we lived in the same house. When we moved to our grandparents house I barely saw my mother . She would work, And after work she would go out and get  a couple of drinks with her friends. On the weekend she would go out, come home late, and sometimes she would not come back home until the next day, or sometimes weeks. I remembered when she took us out over her friends house and we slept over there because she was too drunk to come back home. When we got back to our grandparents house my grandmother was screaming because she was worried sick about my brothers and I. I remembered he saying “why would you take the kids with you if you know you wasn’t gonna come back home. You are drinking and taking your kids with you something bad could of happen. My grandmother used to get mad everyday and every night, because my mom would always go out. She would scream at everyone because my mother would never come home . It was like ever since my parents split my mother was a different person. She drinks more, goes out everyday, she was never home. I never understood her feelings at the time or how she was reacting at that time. But not only hurting herself but she was hurting my grandmother.

  My grandmother would be very stressed because at the time my family didn't have much . She went to work, she made sure my brothers and I was well taken cared of. But other than that living in a 3 bedroom house apartment with like 10 people living there was really difficult. My grandmother was a family person. It didn't really matter to her how many people was living with her. She just love the family being together. My grandmother loved her kids and her grand kids she did everything for us and was very over protective. It used to drive everyone crazy. Especially me. She never wanted me to go outside because she thinks something bad might happen to me. Even If she would go to work she would tell our neighbor and her friends to make sure I stay in the house. But I really didn't care because I always had my brothers to play with. I never blamed my grandmother for doing the things she did because she always wanted to make sure I'm on the right tract and don't end up like my mother and father. My grandmother practically raised my brother and I growing up, after my mom left and father. She taught me many things, showed me how should I handle and do things. How I should not end up like my mother leaving her kids.

As I got older I started to realize that I don't need my parents anymore. Even if they came around once in the blue moon. I would go to school, come home, eat , do my homework, help my brother with his homework and play with my baby brother. My grandmother always told me "As a big sister , my duties are to go to school, come home do my homework, eat, and make sure my little brothers are ok because I would be like another mother to them" and I was only 12 when my grandmother told me that. I know that it may sound weird but it was really true.

  As years come I was about 15 years old my mom and dad started to come around more they started to show my brother in I more attention when we didn't need it anymore. It was really hard really hard for my brothers and I to reconnect with parents. I till this day don’t blame them for leaving us. They was young , married,  having kids , going threw a break up.

  Now as years comes my parents has gotten along, but they are still split. My father has his own house and mother has a new husband and a child. And she does not live with us anymore.  My brothers and i are still living with my grandparents because we chose not to live with any of our parents. Everything is not that confusing anymore now that i am older and now that I am a young mother, who is married. about to graduate high school  , and have a baby, I don't want to follow the same foot step my mother and father has done.  I want to make sure even if I gone thru a break up I would not let my emotions, feelings, or anything affect my relationship with my child. Or even if it stresses me so bad, to the point where I'm about to lose my mind I will never leave my baby. Everything that I have gone thru with my parents barely around has taught me to be a better parent to my child.  Looking at my child grow each day sometimes makes me question myself why would my parents want to leave my brothers and I . Do they love me , as much as I love my child. No because they actually left my brothers and i with my grandparents. Than decided to come back in our life when we are old enough to understand things and how we are able to take care of ourselves and live on our own. Everything does not matter to me. The only thing that those is my own little family that i have. I would always remember those words that my grandmother told me. To never be like my parents, to be strong, and believe that their are better.