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I actually like how this one turned out, as I liked the first one more. I "learned" my mistake and I used shapes that aren't so tight with cutting.

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For this 2nd Notan I went to the opposite colors and make it look sharp, and used more shapes that used corners. Having a ruler would be good here to line up the paper.

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I cut out a bird, hearts and other shapes as it makes it look more pleasing to look at. And blue and white is a good combination to make it seem calm and peace.

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So, when I realized that I had no pencils, I used a color pencil. It was very difficult to cut out the paper as I had to get small corners. (a ruler would've been helpful as well)

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This is the materials that I bought, I got new glue, and construction paper. I forgot to buy a pencil but I just used color pencil.

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As you can see, this is my final result.

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After I drew on the black piece of paper, I started cutting out the shapes and gluing them on the pink piece of paper.

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For the next step, I drew a wave kind of like a river, a flower, a heart, some triangle and half circle shapes on the side.

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Next step, i cut out a square 4x4 inches

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This is my final result. As you can see that the drawings like the star used to be only half, now that I glued and put it together they became a complete drawing.

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After I started cutting out the drawings and gluing them to the white paper.

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Next step, I drew a tree, a star, a flower, a butterfly, a heart, and a cloud.

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The materials I used to make the notans were: construction paper, scissors, a glue stick, pencil, white color pencil and a ruler.

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I wish this came out a bit better... but I'm also proud of myself because I took a long time on this sucker. I wish I had a different pair of scissors that could handle thin lines but I had to make do. I really love these patterns and hopefully if I ever have the opportunity to do this again, I'll be more prepared. Either way I really enjoyed the experience and the challenge!

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I thought I'd go with a cool ocean-esce, spiral theme. Well...once again, a different pair of scissors would of come in handy. I guess I unconsciously like to challenge myself because boy was cutting this out difficult.

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here are my supplies for my second Notan. I used the same supplies as the previous one

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And bam! I'm pretty proud of this. Unfortunately I didn't have an X-acto knife so some of the lines look jagged but I think its cute.

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For my first Notan, I decided to go with a cat theme because I love cats. Well, I'm not the best drawer so my cat's head turned out pretty silly. The right side, middle shape is a fish! I thought that was pretty clever. I enjoyed making this one.. cutting it out was somewhat difficult but the process was enjoyable

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not featured: black and white construction paper

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here are my supplies for my Notans. I used a classic glue stick, a strong pair of scissors (which I later regret), and of course a trusty pencil and construction paper

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This is the completed second Notan. To be honest I kinda like the first one more, but this one is still nice.

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While making this Notan, I tried to go for the letter E since my name starts with it. However, I didn’t end up liking the final result of that. The other shapes look really nice though. I prefer the first Notan still since I think the round shapes felt more balanced and nice to look at.

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The making of the second Notan. This time I decided to go with sharper shapes. I also decided to try and do a letter E. 

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This is my first Notan completed. I actually was surprised by how it turned out, I didn’t expect it to look that cool. 

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While I was creating this piece I didn’t have high expectations since it was the first time I was doing it. Yet, it turned out better than expected. I had an especially hard time with the bottom part. The cuts were so tiny and it was so hard to glue, but in the end I managed to complete it.

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At first I couldn’t really think of anything. Then I decided to try and go for rounder shapes. 

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These are the materials I used for both my Notans. Glue, scissors, mechanical pencil, ruler, white construction paper, black construction paper.

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Here is my finished 2nd notan. I really do like it but it was pretty messy and the cuts are not good. I do love how the pink looks with black. I do like the other one better.

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This is the final product of my second Notan. It was a lot harder than my first since there is more going on and a lot more shapes within each other. Drawing and cutting more shapes that were within other shapes were more difficult in the placement process but I was able to make sense of technique and appreciate it a lot more doing so.

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For my second Notan, I wanted to challenge myself a little more than my first. I included more nonlinear lines as shown in the wave like shape at the bottom and also included smaller triangles that resemble a sun at the top.

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This is the final result of my first Notan. Although I wanted to try to be simple, I found a way to use a half square, or triangle, instead of the traditional square shape foundation. At first it was a little confusing using a triangle as the base but I think it turned out pretty good. It was nice to see the balance of it all and watch it come together once it was finished.

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For my second notan I decided to draw it out first. This one I thought I would use pink because it is my favorite color. I did not really enjoy cutting this one because of the small point ends in my design.

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After cutting out the shapes and figuring out placement.

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For my first Notan, I wanted to start off simple since I have never done this kind of art before. I incorporated simple shapes such as circles and triangles but also included a cross. I decided to use circles and triangles as base shapes to get used to how to construct a notan, while also including a cross as religion is a big part of who I am.

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I am really proud of my work for not knowing what to do. I thought I was going to hate it because I was not getting clean smooth cuts. But after it was all done it looked pretty cool. I wish I could add more designs to the empty areas.

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Materials I used were regular copy paper, black construction paper, pencil, silver sharpie to outline, scissors, and tape.

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For my 1st notan I did not really know what to do so I would just outline one thing and cut it and glue it right away until I was satisfied with it. I really did not know what I was going for.

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These are the materials I used. I wish I had an xacto knife that way I could do more detailed designs and have a better cut. The scissors I used were not too great. I preferred using the regular pencil over the white pencil because it was easier to erase. I did not have a ruler but it would of been really helpful if I did.

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So, with my two notans, I really wanted to do something season inspired. As you can see, my first notan I was inspired by Halloween :) I love Halloween, I think it's super fun and it just makes me feel like a little kid again (yes I still go Trick-or-treating). The pumpkin was especially hard because it was difficult cutting the little eyes and mouth out. But also, I tried to make this as symmetrical as possible within the triangles that way it has a nice, clean look. The second notan is inspired by fall, I attempted to make a tree without leaves (because leaves fall off a tree). I also tried to incorporate a little river underneath the tree too. I chose a circle because I associate trees with nature, and what's more naturistic than the shape of our planet???

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For the second one I added little of a heart and a mountain, I’m not very good at art but I am very happy how it turn out! For the second piece I wasn’t as worried as I was for the first piece!

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For this first I decided to do something simply just because I was worried that I would mess it up so I just made two triangle to test out how the reflection would be.

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I feel like I could have made the shapes a little thinner. All in all I had fun with this project. It is definitely something I will be showing my two youngest kids how to do.

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This time, I went a bit simpler with the shapes I drew.

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Material used:
- Cardstock
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Ball point pen

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I am not going to lie, gluing these pieces was more difficult than I thought it would be. But I am happy with the results. To me, this notan kind of reminds me of a jellyfish.

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Here I put my best drawing effort in and played with different lines and shapes to create to the finished product.

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It was really cool doing this. I had so much fun experimenting and trying different shapes. It was definitely a different experience, I'm really happy I did 

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Materials used:
- Cardstock
- Glue stick
- Ink Pen
-Scissors

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This activity was actually very satisfying and stress relieving. My favorite part was cutting out the designs with the x-acto knife and peeling it off of the original black paper. I would definitely do more of these!

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This is my final piece for notan #2

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In this picture, I have began laying out the pattern.

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This is my final piece for notan #1

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In this picture I have laid out the pattern, but have not glued down the final pieces.

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For materials, I used black and white paper, scissors, a pencil, an x-acto knife, a ruler, and a glue stick.

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I decided to try a completely new set of colors to see if I could make something look cool and interesting. I love the contract between the red and black construction paper, I think it makes the art piece look more intense and dramatic. I think I had more fun making this notan than the second one, probably because I had a better idea of what I was doing haha

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I messed up a little bit creating my first notan in fore-sight, I had not realized it at the time. I still had a lot of fun putting it together though

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Here I am working on my 2nd Notan. I did draw some more complex shapes that I did not like, therefore I  decided to do another simple shape. 

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Here I am thinking of my shapes and chose to do the shapes of cards. I wanted something simple and clean. 

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The second notan was the easier one to complete, since I knew what to do. I had a rhythm on what to do so it took me a shorter time to complete. All in all, this project was very fun with it allowing me to bring my creative side out. Very fun!

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I used the same materials as the first one, although I used a white crayon for both (I just forgot to mention it).

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The first notan was honestly the hardest one and longest one because I didn't know what I was doing in the first place. Also, I constantly had to second guess myself with the cut outs and the placements of them.

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This is the process paper for my first notan. The materials I used were black and white construction paper, pencil, glue, and scissors.

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This is my second notan finished. For this one. I tried to do multiple cuts and layer the cut outs. I think it turned out really good. I used the green construction paper for this one instead of the white because they remind me of plants. So I was creating the effect of green plants.

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This is my second notan in progress. I am trying a little more complicated one then the first. I am making some of the shapes have 2 cuts. 

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This is my finished Notan 1. When doing this one I was still trying to get the basics down so I drew random shapes. I really like how it turned out and I found it very relaxing in the end. For my next one I am going to try and make it a little more complicated.

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This was after drawing my sketches on my black paper. I am just about to cut my shapes out and get ready to glue them! 

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I used scissors , glue, a pencil, and white/ black paper. 

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My second Notan was a little harder. I tried to create abstract shapes. I messed up on one piece and didn't realize until after the glue dried. Like I said in my material post, it would've been better to use an x-acto knife.

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This one was my favorite. I used simple shapes. I also tried to make shapes inside of shapes. In the right hand corner I was trying to make an octopus but the head came out looking like a heart. I used mostly curved and straight lines, nothing too hard since it was my first one.

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This is my in progress photo of my second Notan. I used red and orange colors because I wanted darker shades and they remind me of fall, my favorite season. I still had a few shapes to cut out.

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Here is my in progress picture of my first Notan after I cut out all my shapes. I chose pink and purple because they have great contrast and are my favorite colors.

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For my materials I simply used; construction paper, scissors, a ruler and a glue stick. After completing the project I believe it would have been better to use an x-acto knife instead of scissors to make more intricate shapes. I had a hard time trying to cut the smaller pieces.

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Completion for Notan 2. For Notan 2, I decided to take up more space than the previous one because I realized that I had enough room. Although it did take a little bit more time than the first notan, I really like the second one better than the first one since it is more detailed.

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This is my second in-progress notan with materials which were the pencil, ruler, scissors, glue stick, and the pink and yellow paper.

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The completion of my first notan. I tried my best in cutting inside of the lines I drew with pencil, but yeah I am not that perfect when cutting with scissors. I decided to draw shapes and cut out shapes that was interesting for myself.

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The materials I have brought for this 2 Notan art assignments are glue, pencil, ruler, green and blue paper and a pair of scissors. My experience with this assignment is somewhat difficult, but in the end I was able to manage. If I were to say if I do this everyday, then perhaps it would improve drastically. The hardest part of the assignment I didn't particularly enjoy was the cutting curved shapes out.

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Here is the final results of my notan #2. I is made a hamster, a heart, and two triangles. I am proud of my work. I will continue to practice since I really enjoyed working on it.

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For my second notan I wanted to challenge myself. I created a hamster. Here is a picture of the cut outs, and I also added a heart and two triangles.

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This was my final result. Im kind of iffy about this one. I liked the first one a lot more. Some parts to is okay. I messed up on the bottom a lot. The placement can be better but overall I had fun learning about Notan.

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Here are the final results of my butterfly. I am very proud it since it was my first time doing a Notan.

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Here is my second outline for the Notan. I like the design and I felt confident when I was drawing this image. I did two hearts with outlines in the middle and I still stuck to my sun image but this time I added the rays seperate and not together.

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My first notan I made a butterfly because I love butterflies. It looks easy, but is not. It requires a lot of patient.

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First I gather the material. I used white and black construction paper, scissors, glue, and white color pencil.

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This notan went off the page as well as my last one but, I would say they both turned out pretty well. The hardest part was cutting out all the different shapes.