I decided to use this quote because skiing has been a big part of my life since I was little. Having a cabin up at whistler with a ski in ski out trail has been really awesome while growing up. Not gonna lie but during the winter at school I sometimes think about what the top of the mountain might be like at that moment. During the christmas break we drive straight up to whistler for christmas. We do a lot of skiing during the winter break in whistler because we have so much free time and love to do it. Because of this when I think of christmas I think of skiing. I am lucky to have grown up with the resources to go skiing and the big mountain in our back yard.
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During this process of calligraphy I wasn't sure what I was getting into. I found that there are is a lot more to the process and art of calligraphy then I thought. There are so many different techniques that I for sure need to work on. I think that I need mainly to work on using my shoulder instead of my wrist as well as the ways the letters are formed like the thicker down stroke for example. I liked using ink and paper for a bit. I found calligraphy was a cool it as a new learning experience. It took me a few times to get what I wanted right. I think I did it 5 or 6 times till I got it right, and even now I still see things I would like to change. Although I learned doing this project that it takes lots of time to get at least a little of the process of calligraphy down.
I picked a simple quote I found online. But it was influenced by this rusty weight I found in my garage. I hunted around the house and found white spray paint and did two coats of paint. It cracked up and I am not sure why but it wasn't what I wanted it to look like. I was planning on doing hand writing and for it to be nice and flat and clean looking. But it didn't work out like that so I grabbed some kids paint and made the letters look very messy to contrast with the unwanted cracks in the spray paint. I have always thought "down" was kind of a negative word, So I painted it blue since blue represents sadness and as well as the sea, because when I first found this quote it kind of made me thing of sinking to the bottom of the ocean, like your hitting rock bottom.
This quote here I like because its a great motivator when you feel like there is something pushing you to not to do what you want to. It took me three times to get this done the " right " way. At first it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to and the second time Katie smudged it my mistake. So I started over for the third time and ended up smudging it.. So with time not so in my favour, Idecided to make it work. I smudged the edges of words, dropped some ink on the paper and gave it interesting affect. I think it turned out ok.
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