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Relief Process The Relief Process is a way you can transfer images by using hand using a small barren. You have to place a thin paper on the wood with the art and apply a little pressure to get your art transferred. People use this type of printing process because it provides a nice grain texture on the black areas. The grain effect allows the painting to not look flat and that gives an artist an advantage. When making cuts on the wood, you often use different sets of wood carvers to get a variety of marks, width, and depths. Then, when you are making the art, you can choose while lines, which is removing the wood, or black lines, which is keeping it. This gives the art a 3D look to the art. Linoleum printing is a type of relief printing that gives it more of a flat look. Linoleum printing has the exact same approach except you remove material from a thick paper not a wood block 1) First, you start by toning your wood block with an Indian ink wash or a wash of jet black film

Our first idea was to do go zones, and the concept we decided immediately is to show the wrong way then show the correct way. Then, once we decided what we are going to do and how we are going to execute it, we moves on to the story board. On the story board, we decided what kind of shots we were going to show and how we were going to show the right way vs the wrong way without blankly stating it. We decided to use sad music vs happy music and black and white vs color. Then, I gave all the parts to people, because I was director. Then, while we were filming, we got people from Mr. Netterville's class to crowed up the hallway more. Then during editing, I leveled some shots, put in music, and changed the clips to black and white. I was director of my group, and I learned leadership, because I had to assign parts, and record, and confirm that everything was going smoothly. Technically, I edited and recorded.  The thing I would do different is edit it so the music faded out, so

I have gone to New York City twice, and both times were because of my brother does a lot with musical theater. At first, I was fine with going to New York, but it wouldn't be my number 1 place to go. But, I heard all of the random things we were seeing and got more optimistic about going. So first, when we arrived, it was mostly all about my brothers theater, and I'm not a theater guy so I won't talk much about the beginning. After all the theater things, I got to do some of the stuff I like with my family. Some of the stuff included the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, 9/11 memorial, Top Rock (thats where I got the 2 overhead pictures), Brooklyn Bridge, etc. I really enjoyed tours and stuff like that, so this was up my alley. We spent about 3 whole days going to random places, and we pretty much walked the whole time all three days. The last couple of things we did was Central Park and the Toys R Us on Times Square. Then we loaded up and left for Ohio right

I started creating my design by changing the style with Nathan. Then I moved on to the background. I chose the filter stained glass and changed the shape size to max to get my background the way it is. Then I moved on to painting Nathans shirt red to add some more color to the project. I chose darken as the style color. Then, finally, I put random colored squares to add a little more to the background. The color scheme I decided on was was more magenta/blue-ish. The reason I chose that was becauseI feel like they are pretty colors and show a nice blend of warm and cool colors. The colors stuck out more that I thought because I added a bunch of rocks that were gray, and the colors really popped out there. The artist I based most of my art of was Roy Lichtenstein. The thing he does with his people is make them into tiny dots, and then he adds color. Thats what I did with Nathan. In the background, I sort of did a Warhol style, because he added random squares in some of his arts like