Midterm #10

In my drawing one can see two children, each holding a balloon and ready to start playing hopscotch. For this midterm I used several shapes including the rectangle, the triangle, the trapezoid, and the elliptical. I also utilized the straight line and the arc (curved line) a great deal as is noticeable in the foliage part of the tree, the grass under the tree, the tree branches, the cat's mouth and whiskers, the kids' noses and mouths, the flower's stem and the numbers. The hardest thing to draw were the cat and the children's hands. I also used "explosion #1" from the stars and banners section for the flower. I used the format autoshape for the color (fill and line color), sizes (height and width) and angle rotations. The green rotation tool that appears upon right clicking each shape was also very useful, as were the arrows of expansion and contraction of figures that also come up upon rigth clicking shapes and then left clicking. I figured out as well that I could make lines longer or shorter by left clicking on them and then using the small green circle that appears on each end to stretch the line as needed. Concerning arcs (the curved line), the yellow spots that appeared upon right clicking on the arc was also very important in order to manage how open or closed I needed the arc to be and in order to extend or shorten its length. I also used a beige woody texture and a brick pattern for the lower part of the house and for the roof. I must add I used also the moon (for the cat's tail), the heart (for the design in the girl's balloon), and the star (for the design in the boy's balloon). Using the straight line, the arc and the elliptical, I wrote my name. I then zoomed the image to 75% (otherwise it would not have been totally visible in the screenshot), I pressed the printscreen key and the screenshot was shot through the Picasa 3 program under which also saved the screenshot. Two last steps were uploading the original Word document to my Boston College MyFiles section and uploading the screenshot to my blog.