Snow Buildings!

For this post I was inspired by the snow outside which reminded me of the snowmen and igloos I created when I was younger. I remember hearing about snow hotels/ entire buildings made out of snow so I was really curious to see what they looked like, and I was pleasantly surprised! I really enjoyed…

3D Sidewalk Chalk Drawings

This weekend I came across some chalk drawings on the sidewalk, which inspired me to look up professional chalk drawings to see what they looked like. I ended up coming across an article highlighting 4 of the most talented 3D street chalk artists. All of the drawings are super realistic and creative and serve as…

From Origami to Crystals

This weekend I was looking through the posted chapter on origami for project 3. I quickly noticed that the vocabulary in the origami book is the same as what I am learning about in my engineering class on crystallography. This connection makes me very happy as I believe science and art often overlap more than…

Tea Illustrations by Andrew Gorkovenko

This weekend I drank a lot of tea because of the cold weather, and I noticed that the tea packaging was very fancy. I then looked up the packaging of other brands of tea packaging online and I discovered Andrew Gorkovenko. Gorkovenko is a designer and illustrator from Moscow creates tea leaf masterpieces for tea…

Jack’s Pumpkin Glow

This weekend I wanted to go to Jack’s Pumpkin Glow, which is a 1/3 mile trail filled with over 5000 jack o’ lanterns! Looking through the gallery, I was amazed by the diversity in the carvings and how the pumpkins were carved to mimic realistic objects. Attached below is the gallery featuring some very creative…

Amazing Book Sculptures

This weekend I was in center city and saw a book sculpture. I wanted to see more so I looked online and found some amazing book sculptures. It is really interesting to learn the different methods artist use to create these sculptures and how realistic some of them look! Attached below is a link to…

Small Potatoes Animation

My project for 2.1 involves a potato on a skateboard. I showed my sister what I have been working on and she said it reminded her of animated potatoes she saw when she was younger called Small Potatoes. It turns out Small Potatoes is a British animated series about a group of potatoes who sing…

Hunter’s Moon

Tonight was the hunters moon, so the moon looked huge and had a beautiful orange color. The reason the moon appears so big is because of something known as the moon illusion. The moon illusion refers to a trick our eyes play on us that makes the moon look bigger near the trees and buildings…

Using the Rule of Thirds!

This weekend my friend asked me to take a picture of them and I was trying to figure out how to best angle the shot with the background. I remembered that in class we discussed the rule of thirds so I decided to use it, and it made the picture better! Afterwards I looked more…

Lanternfly Jewelry

Lanternflies have invaded Philadelphia, and in response people have been instructed to kill any lanternfly they see. This has caused dead lanternflies to be scattered everywhere, but while some people might be grossed out by this, Candice Jeffries saw an opportunity. Candice was inspired by the lanternfly’s beauty and patterns and decided to make earrings…