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Before this project, I never done a large scale piece with paint. I had used paint before, but never as much as I did with this project. It was a challenge to go outside of my comfort zone. I am usually swayed more towards drawing, but I wanted to do something different this time because I knew that I could not achieve the desired affect that I wanted with just pencils. I originally was going to do just a bowl and a plate, but Mrs. Marsh pushed me to do another piece of dinnerware because she said that sets usually come in odd numbers. I quickly adapted to painting once I got familiar with the brush size I was using and the type of paint. Normally I try to do an easy project, but I knew that I needed something more to appropriate the stained glass piece that I was doing.

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Every class period after I was finished, I always reflected on the work I had done for that day. Throughout the project working time, I mostly thought that I was doing a good job at progressing in the project. I was on time with the work days and I was always at hard work to get the majority of one side done per class period. I was very impressed with what I was achieving with paint considering it was my first major scale project with it. The top of the plate was hard because it took me the longest and the top of the bowl was harder because it took a lot of detail. I am very happy with the finished project. Although the plates cannot be eaten off of, they are nice to store things in and look at for decoration.

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Throughout this project, I had to learn how to use paint correctly and how to make sure I was being steady with my hand. In the beginning of the project, I used sharpie to roughly outline where the leaves and branches were going to be. At first, the painting did not go well because I didn't understand that it needed multiple layers to achieve the color that I wanted. Towards the end of the project, my work became more neat and the painting looked more like solid colors because I put multiple layers down. The pictures of progression shows how far my paint skills have come because of how neat the final piece is versus how disorganized the beginning pictures look.

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Originally, the piece was supposed to look like a stained glass window and my goal was to make it look as such. Throughout the project, my idea changed and it became the idea that stained glass windows remind me of church and calm feelings. I wanted my set of dinnerware to be a calming piece. I wanted to also express the free flow of nature and how organic the shapes are (especially with the branches). The blue that is in the background represents a stained glass window because it has panels of different colored blues that go around the bowls and plates.

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Original piece that I am appropriating