the fifth drawing

The fifth work of the computer drawing class.

This was the learning about using photoshop.

I am so happy that I use this drawing tool well.

Ha ha . . . . I want to call myself, photoshop master.

But I think I still have a lot of things need to learn.

Go go . . . . keep learning.

This was the work what I drew.

my jewel design

The sketch of my jewel design work.
The final work of the jewel design class is to make two silver decorations, silver ring and pendant.
This time I will use the more professional tools to make them.
I will use something, such as white alum, alcohol, fire, mallet, to make the silver become soft, so after I can make it shape to be what I want.
I really feel so interested on doing those works.
So, now, I have to hurry to finish my design picture.
Then, I can stare my project.

the plot of Everyday Use

The story concerns a rare visit Dee pays to her mother and sister, after a long absence. As she waits for her daughter, Mrs. Johnson reflects on how much Dee hated her home life when she was a child--so much that the author hints that she set fire to the house, nearly killing Maggie and scarring her for life. After the fire, Mrs. Johnson raised money through the local church to send Dee away to school. Maggie, however, remained at home and learned traditional skills from her family. At the time of the story, she is preparing to marry a local farmer.

Dee arrives wearing a gorgeous wrapper and accompanied by a young American Muslim man whose name Mrs. Johnson can't pronounce. Dee offers an African phrase of greeting, then, like a tourist, immediately starts snapping polaroids of her mother and sister and their house.

The main purpose of the visit, it turns out, is to appropriate some of the family's belongings, which Dee wants to turn into museum pieces. First, she claims the butter churn, still full of clabber, saying she's going to make the top of it into a centerpiece and do "something artistic" with the dasher. Maggie winces at this because she loves the churn and knows its whole history, but she barely protests.

Dee, however, is not finished yet; next, she asks for her grandmother's old patchwork quilts. Mrs. Johnson demurs, saying she has already promised the quilts to Maggie as a wedding gift. Dee angrily protests that Maggie will ruin the quilts by spreading them on beds--by putting them to "everyday use." Puzzled, the mother wonders what else you would do with quilts. "Hang them" replies Dee.

Mrs. Johnson looks at Maggie standing in the doorway, miserable but already resigned to her loss. In a sudden rush of almost religious feeling, she snatches the quilts from Dee and gives them to Maggie.

Dee snaps, absurdly; "Your problem is you don't understand...your heritage!" and leaves. Maggie and her mother, relieved, spend the rest of the day dipping snuff and enjoying each other's company.

(the yellow words were the new words, which I learned)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_Use)

Everyday Use

"Everyday Use", this theme, which I read, was in the English study group.

"Everyday Use" is a widely studied and much-anthologized short story by Alice Walker. It was first published in 1973 as part of Walker's short story collection, In Love and Trouble.

The story is told in the first person by the "Mama" (Mrs. Johnson), a Black woman living in the Deep South with one of her two daughters. The story humorously illustrates the differences between Mrs. Johnson and her shy younger daughter Maggie, who still live traditionally in the rural South, compared to her educated, successful daughter Dee (or "Wangero", as she prefers to be called), who scorns her immediate roots in favor of a pretentious native African identity.

bauhaus & umbrela

The new project, a Bauhaus umbrella
Design a Bauhaus brolly made from poly (colloquial terms for an umbrella)

『 Umbrella history』
Basic umbrella was invented over 4000 years ago.
Chinese waxed and lacquered their paper parasok.
The word ‘umbrella” = latin word for shade and shadow.
James Smith and Sons 1830, England.

The process for the Bauhaus umbrella
Before I design the Bauhaus umbrella, I need to learn the Bauhaus.
After that, I learn to use the poly and do some practices.
This is my practice.
There are four different kinds of shapes.
First layer, I only use the beans, such as red bean, green bean, corn, black bean, to combine with poly.
Second layer, I add two colors, white and yellow, into poly.Third layer, I put some dry flowers and a little white color to mix.

picture layers

These were eight different kinds of picture layers, which were the much useful tool in the illustrator.
This was my first time using this magical tool.
Although at first it was very difficult to use, I still learned it very well.
After I did that first work of picture layers, I tried to make another picture layers.
Down was the second time I made the forty picture layers.
Now, I didn’t feel difficult when making picture layer.Contrary, I felt it was so fun to using this tool.

learning softwares

Those picture were found by me on a blog of my friend.

She was drawing those by the software,the little drawer.

She was a master on using this software.

And now, I am her student, to learn drawing by the little drawer.

And she is also my student.

I am teaching her how to use the photoshop, another drawing software.

We are the best friends, and the best teacher and student.