My Creative Journey

Everyone has a different creative process. That's because we are all unique individuals. Everyone ended up with a different final product for their projects because we all had different interpretations during our nature walk and other pieces along the way. I got the most information for my project on the nature walk and from the artist I chose to compare my ideas with. The funny thing is the actual idea to make a cowboy hat didn't occur to me until I was talking to a friend of mine about country music and how you can't be considered a country artist unless you have some sort of cowboy hat. I swear an actual light bulb probably went off above my head and I was super excited to start working on my project. I did get a bit frustrated working on my project, though. It was tough to make sure I cut out all of the cardboard correctly and added as much detail as possible with the materials I had (I think I went through 2 entire rolls of tape!!). My partner artist helped me to add a pop of color, so I added flowers to the brim of the hat. My final creation did end up as I originally intended, although I turned a bit of a corner and could have made my hat look more like a cowboy hat, bit it still turned out amazing. It ended up taking 7 and a half hours outside of class time to complete, but it was worth it in the end. 



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