Pigman Final

 Right now my group and I are finishing up this book, and doing our last post of The Pigman. Throughout this book I discovered some symbols that  means a lot to the book. I felt the end of the book really summed up the meaning of this book.

It was really sad of how its started off from the phone call, to the friends, bobo, then the party, then bobo died, and ends up that Pigman died too because of it. 

Some of the symbol that I found interesting is the zoo, because Mr.Pignati goes there very single day, just to cheer him up. Since Conchetta is dead, the zoo is like a place to go to if you're feeling depressed. Like for example in the beginning of this book, when the three of them became friends, they all went to the zoo to see Bobo and other features of the zoo. In the end of the book they all went there, and that's how it ended. The place where they became friends, and the place where they were sperated. The happiest hi, and the hardest good bye.

Another symbol I discovered is the Bobo's cage. It's like Lorraine and John is just no less then the baboon. They stay in that same spot for the whole story, too long until one of their best friends dies. They have no one else to blame of Mr.Pignati's death, the one to blame is themselves. 

I really liked this book, because people are to expect good and happy endings for books. This one was different in ended in a way that was very sad, and it reminds me that not all good books end in a happily ever after. 

Hockney Faces

For the past few weeks we started on a project containing are faces. First of all we took at least 20 photos and made all of the photos into black and white so we can have value into count. After we did that we played with the pictures in an app called Picollage, until we had this face of randomness with all angles stuck together. Like this: 

After we did this process, we printed this face on a big piece of paper specifically a A3 paper. Then we chose different parts of the rectangles to draw with pencil/graphite. I did four things to draw. I drew the eyes, shirt, nose, hair, and mouth.

This is one of the piece that I drew. I made three others containing the things I mentioned, but apparently I didn't take pictures. After all this, if we finished drawing all the components of this project , we used a styrofoam thing to elevate the piece of paper of our drawings. Then we glued the final product to a black peice of paper. And we're done. Before I show you my final product, I just wanted to tell you where this all started. It started from a guy named David Hockney.

He is known for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools, David Hockney is considered one of the most experienced British artists of the 20th century. And it says that when he was a kid he really loved books and was interested in art in such a small age. He referred to his first paintings by the knowledge he has been thought and then later he made collages similar to this project. And my final product:

15''*11'' graphite on rag paper

I think I did very well on the shading part of this project, and the reflection of the eye.  I think I should've work on not making those lines that can't be removed, which is caused by the wood part of the pencil. Overall I learned how to use tools, and how to make an eye. I really enjoyed this project along with talking those pictures. Hope you like it.

Test Blog Pigman

Mega And Hafsa are my partners

The Pigman Page 1-50

In class we are matched with reading buddies and we read a certain book. Our schedule is reading 25 pages each day, while making posts every 50 pages. Right now, three of us chose a book called The Pigman by the author named Paul Zindel. Before I read this book I got a gist of the book, and I  think it will have a high value.

One of the main parts of this section is that the girl and her friends have this thing called the telephone Marathon which is basically a game where the friends have to dial a random number and talk to that stranger for as long as they could. The girl was dialed on a very special man named Mr. Pignati and he promised to give them ten dollars for the "L and J fund charity"

The setting of this book mainly is in the interior of the characters' house, which I think the author did a very good job on picking that spot. I think that, because It really gets mood of secured and no one knows who's calling who. Unlike in a building of what sort.

And also the perspective of the book really catches the whole idea of the feeling of the characters. For example the girl has great feelings that this man is not just a normal man, a unodirnary man. The friends realize that this man is a very nice man. Some of my questions, Will the man find out that it is just a prank call? Will the man be a best of friends with the characters?. Last one Will Mr. Pigman benefit from the ten dollars that he gave to the charity?