Artists Solve Problems: Tracing the picture onto the slab, it was hard to really see the lines that I traced because I did it over a paper so the lines were not definite. Thinking a little outside the box, I just traced the lines as best I could, only the lines that I could really tell, and free handed the rest of it. It came out pretty identical to the picture so I'm pretty pleased with it so far.
Artists Take Risk: In this project we are doing, we're creating a slab with a picture and creating depth by craving into the slabs in certain sections. The easiest method for this project was probably to do shapes and bold lines so when getting into the crease it would be more precise and define.
Looking at the picture, one can tell that it's going to be slightly more difficult to make the edges precise; harder to get into the corners as well.
Artists Communicate Thru Work: The sides of the Mandala box had to have some 3D designs on them to make them pop just a little more. My ideas for the design was flowers & leafs, which in a way connects with the Mandala design.
Artist Create Original Art: On the lids of our boxes, we had to make a handle to open the box so while everyone was just doing basic handles, like just rectangular, I thought it would be neat to make a feather handle to flow with the rest of my designs on my box.
Artists Develop Art Making Skills: Still creating my Mandala Box, we were instructed to cut into the box to produce a lid for it. Cutting into my box, I learned to have a steady hand and to be more precise because it was my first time doing this, my lines weren't the sharpest and it wasn't even all around the top for the lid.