HS 6: Paper That Moves!

This week we will start to build our mechanical marvels in paper. You will choose from several different mechanisms, with the idea that you will make a moving "family portrait."

We will also go back to the SketchBook software to practice our drawing in there. To help I will show you how to use the Intuos drawing tablets, which you are free to use at any time you are drawing or working on your computer.

REMEMBER! You must make a blog post every Friday that is a reflection of what you did during the week. I read those Saturday morning. Any addition work, like creating your "Mechanisms" page is different.

This week you will add another page. Again, it will be a collection of three mechanisms, any that you want. One of my favorite resources for mechanisms is here: http://507movements.com/ . Some are animated, and some are not. When I'm going through there I'm sometimes just looking at whether they are aesthetically pleasing to me--pretty!

You will choose three mechanisms and write at least a paragraph on what your chosen mechanisms do in the world. If you can find no information then you have to make up a paragraph's worth of information. Or even if you can find enough and just want to make up the information you may do so. You must have three images to back up your text.

You can name the page anything you want, but remember that we are building up to making a family portrait. This is due  August 21, 2015.