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This is the finished Notan #1. I used a photograph and cut the negative space out from the black paper to flip the design. It reminds me of a playing card. I think that by including the tie detail that I was able to improved the visual interest.

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In Progress Photo for Notan #2 (by Ha, Spring '20)

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Notan #2 Example shows the use of bright, contrasting paper.

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This one was fun to do, but a little tricky. I had to use an exacto knife to cut the strips. It was hard putting it back together. This one took me a while to get everything to stay in place and glue it down. I used black and white card stock for these.

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I love pink, so I thought I would use two different shades of it. I was thinking this would be a little easier to do, but it wasn’t. Cutting the edges of the feathers and the sun were a little tricky, so again I had to use my exacto knife instead of scissors. I used card stock for both of these as well.

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NYC is known as the Big Apple. I want this Apple to signify the Twin Towers before they were attacked and collapsed.  A moment in time of peace before the World was changed forever on 9/11/2011.  It goes to show how life can change in a blink of an eye

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I used several old newspaper articles that I cut and tediously put together for my Notan. It was extremely time consuming, but the end result was worth it. I personally will never forget watching it all unfold on TV and that helpless feeling I had thinking the West Coast was going to be attacked also. I was scared, sad, and felt so angry. One thing for sure is this planet was changed forever.

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Found it hard to decide what pieces to use and put together.

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I just used orange and green construction paper. I had outlined the shapes and cut them out to make it look like a shadow.

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This is the piece that’s all finished. I wasn’t sure I could do it but it came out better then I expected.

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This one was my favorite even though the first one and this one has a lot of similarities. I just loved how this one turned out because I had knew how to fix my mistakes from the first one.

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Ahh it came out so beautiful I loved this one it is so pretty. I can’t believe I was able to do it a second time so crazy!!

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For my project I used black construction paper and printer paper which I glued with a glue stick.

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I drew two rough sketches for one potential notan design. I ended up doing the one on the left.

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I was cutting out the paper to get started on my first notan

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This took me about 15-25 minutes to create.

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Everything just needed to be glued for the finial product.

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This took about 15-25 minutes to be created.

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Over all this was pretty fun! I realized I needed to head over to Micheals to buy some craft paper and glue since I didn't have any at home. I didn't know I could be such an artists I really like the outcome of both of these projects. I will definitely be teaching my nephews about this. I have to say that my favorite Notan was the first one! I really like how well orange and green go together. Also, orange is one of my favorite colors thats why I used it on both of my Notans.

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The final product. I used a stencil for the lion.

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I didn't have colored paper so I made green paper with marker. I wanted to draw an intricate pattern on the paper I was going to be cutting, but I decided to keep it simple and focus on the cut outs.

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The beginning of the Notan

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For this Notan I again colored paper with marker to make it black. I wanted to make this one more simple and balanced. I decided to make the subject a cat so it would resemble my pet black cat, Jasmine.

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For the first one i wanted to make something that resembles the mexican flag with the eagles wings and a frog at the same time, but also using my favoritecolor pink to give it a cool look. The second one i know looks like i gave it less effort but i was actually thinking about how i watned to show myu house in a minimalistic look with a kids drawing look. I also wanted to give it some texture wich made me crumple it up but im not sure if it looks cool or if its just dumb, but i like it so i put it in

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Overall, this project was very fun to do. The first notan I made was the Mickey Mouse one. I made this one to represent mine and my families love for Disney. The second notan I did was a collage of different shapes and details. For this one I wanted to try doing something a bit more difficult than the first one. Materials I used were a pencil, black and white construction paper, scissors, and glue.

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Made this out of a Journeys bag, including the stencil for the hand. There was a bit of a learning curve for using the scissors so as not to leave cut marks.

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This was made from old construction paper. I used a double-edged razor to make it easier to cut out the smaller pieces. It was still a little over-ambitious: as you can see there are some parts that didn't turn out quite right. That being said, I learned a lot about how to handle paper in the process. I'm a little proud of my solution to the pieces that went off the ends of the page. The razor felt like the answer to all my problems for a little bit

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By this stage I wasn't quite sure what to do with the hand, but I knew I wanted to make my notan with that shape. I didn't like the idea of having the whole hand flipped out of the square, though. Besides, that would be too big to fit on the background.

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By now I had a strong plan. You can see the line I drew on the stencil to define where the different outlines should be made, and the outline that I would eventually cut out.

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These are my materials for Fire, you can see the razor I used. I think I'm more comfortable with that tool than the average person because I'm a barber, and I'm familiar with how to hold them so as not to cut yourself. The cutting board helped immensely as well, it was an excellent surface for this purpose.

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My wife took this shot of me gluing late at night. You can see the pieces I cut out at the top of the board, arranged by which side of the square they belong to. I actually numbered each of them and their corresponding side on the part that would be glued down. I'm not sure it actually helped me organize them but it helped me worry less about getting them mixed up.

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All my pieces.  I used an Xacto knife that was a bit dull, and I used a pair of scissors.  

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Complete, some of the edges look a bit rough because the Xacto knife was very dull.  

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So first attempt. I opted to go with a 4x4 square and go for more abstract shapes. I was able to get lucky that all of my materials were at the CVS right by my house. I don't normally engage in art, so I don't have art supplies readily available.

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This is my completed first attempt and I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out. This was clearly a mistake though, my overconfidence and happiness with my work could only lead to future disaster.

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I completely forgot to take a photo of my work in progress, so here is my first notan when it's just about to be finished haha

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And here is the 100% finished notan

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this one is my second notan. I actually managed to take a photo of me working on it

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The second piece of art, completed

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Although the design looks very basic it has a deeper meaning the Heart and Star represents Love and Achievements; The Crown and Fire represents Good and Evil. It is kind of like a chart you can be in one of the 4 corners. You can have Good Love or Good Achievements. Or you can have Bad Love or Bad Achievements.

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My 2nd Notan I went for a bit more complicated design with the double cut triangles and with the boots I wanted to show off my more country side of me. The arrows would represent how I could’ve gone any way in life but I ended up in the country.

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In the process of creating of making these two notan I used two square pieces of black construction paper and 2 white paper bases. However I used two more pieces of white paper as my bases were not large enough to contain the whole notan. Overall, making these two notans was quite relaxing and fun and seeing the finished product after planning it out made me feel pretty good about myself and my art, even though they come out nearly as good as I had imagined.

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For this one, I opted to do side by side 4 1/4" squares in order to incorporate the already straight edges on the paper. I was clearly going with a Halloween theme, but due to space constraints I was unable to add in additional objects other than the Jack o'lantern. Another mistake that I made was grossly overestimating my ability to create a coherent drawing. I probably should have just stuck to more abstract drawings, but I did want to try something different for this one.

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The "finished" product. I definitely feel that I could do better with this one. A couple things I learned is that it is best to do it in halves, instead of going for a whole. If I were to do this again, I would only do half the pumpkin. That would leave me more space to add some other Halloween objects in such as bats and ghosts. Additionally, the symmetry is messed up in this, due to attempting to do it as a whole. Overall, I am not happy with this one.

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This reminds of nature a bird on a tree branch close to a bunch of leafs

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I was very unsure of what I was doing here but trying to make everything make sense and be cohesive. I wanted this to look more geometric. I’m not sure I accomplished what I had in mind, but I did my best.

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My Process of the bird and materials used scissors and black and white paper sheets and glue sticks

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All done! I would do this again with only minor changes. I would plan how to balance her suit better. But I am happy with the shapes I got close to the center.

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Wow, gluing all these little pieces and separate teeth was a challenge. A very good learning experience. At one point I tried to blow some eraser shavings off my work…bad idea, I had to find all my small pieces.

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This one might just go up on my wall! I’m pretty happy with this but I noticed that it was very time consuming and I think next time I could draw more of the teeth together because I feel like my lack of x-acto knife skills took away some of the shape I had intended for many of the teeth. Overall a cool piece that Marvel buffs might notice the irony of right away.

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Here is a mixture of shapes hearts and stars 

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This one reminds me of mixed Emotions there are always two sides of the story from an empty star to a half filled heart a hand that reachs out this was my favorite Notan because I cut out the shapes and then other ideas of how I should create this came to mind.

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Cut out the shapes first and after looking at the big X other ideas came to mind.

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Started by playing around with the shapes

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Not what I was going for, but I imagine it as a spinning top

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These are the materials I used. I only had this type of glue and I stole some construction paper from my nephew along with a pen.

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This is the process of the first notan that I created. I was just experimenting with different curves. The color of the construction paper gave me a beach/ocean vibe so I wanted to incorporate that.

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This is the final product of Notan 1. I love how it came out. It was a bit tricky but I still liked the process of it

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For Notan 2, I went with lighter colors.