Hello these past weeks we have been making notans! The understanding our teacher wanted us to do about notans was about the negative and positive spaces in art and that it means so much and is not just a painting. And that it takes time and patience to make art like this. I think that I achieved many things while making a notan like I achieved that I can cut more better and have more patience. Here is a photo of the art I used to give me ideas.

My photo is basically reality and emotions the faces represent emotions and the spiky and wavy lines represent how you feel in life some times you can feel made (the spiky lines) and the wavy lines represent being sad and just floppy and feeling weird.
The steps we had to do to make this was very easy all you need is scissors black paper and white paper and glue! First you want to put your black square down on the white paper and trace the corners and the you can start drawing shapes on the black paper, you have to make sure that the shape starts on the edge and ends on the edge. When you are done you can cut out your shapes and flip them on the white paper do this with all the shapes, when you are done glue and black square and you are done!
Here is a photo of my art

Here some planning and experiments I did beforehand just so I could get the hang of it.
Some mistakes that I made were not making sure what colours go where and going over the lines many times with the colouring in.
What did you enjoy about this work: I enjoyed how we could make any shapes and could add anything we wanted and it was a so cool to see when I glued every thing together.
What did you struggle with?: I struggled with cutting out the shapes and gluing them down since they would move around and could break easily.
What would you do differently if you had another opportunity?: I would not make my shapes to big since they can go off the paper and draw easier ones to cut out instead of small hard shapes.
What do you want your teacher to know about his work?: I want her to know how much effort I put in this notan and that its means a lot of things and is not just a notan but reality.
What did you unexpectedly learn?: I learnt that art is just not art but has a deeper feeling in emotions and meanings.