Hourglass

I walked into the store with one purpose, and one purpose only: to find modeling clay. I tried to find modeling clay to do things in the past, but this time, I came prepared. Pockets full of coupons and change, I approached the shelves. The modeling clay was nowhere to be found. I searched far and wide for someone to answer my one question, “Where is the modeling clay?!”. I left Walmart, and in despair looked up to find United Arts and Education. I walked into the store and found the modeling…

Victoria’s Secret has always been universally known for their female models who have hourglass-shaped figures, long legs, and of course, the ¨perfect¨ bra size. This brand has sold lingerie apparel since the late 70’s, driving women to feel ¨sexy¨ with pushed-up breasts and a v-shaped body. The woman portrayed in this Victoria’s Secret ad possesses a youthful appearance and is wearing a short ¨slip¨ dress for sleeping. Her skin is flawless, with no trace of a freckle or scar and her height…

"Costumes and Makeup for Shakespearean Productions." Madshakespeare. Ed. Annabelle, Ashley, Colin, Dr. Noel, Dustin, Jennifer, John, Mad Shakespeare Staff, Sandra, Stefanie, Tom, and Yasmin. N.p., 10 Oct. 2014. Web. 24 Mar. 2016. Summary: This website gives a great look into how the audience could recognize, or define the royalty levels of the characters in the playbased off of their clothing, and personality. It tells the reader how people in the Shakespeare era did their make-up with what…

comforbatable clothes such as suits, shirtdresses and jeans. In the early 1950’s too, Christian Dior changed the fashion industry dramatically with her fashion line. Her new dresses went down to calf length and they were tight in which showed your hourglass figures. Some of the dresses were so tight it was hard to walk in but the tiny waist was what they tried to achieve in showing by also wearing corsets. Some of the political issues in the 1950’s were the cold war which was going on from…

Life… life 's an hourglass, especially for humans like you and me. It was the year of Hurricane Katrina. Being one of the deadliest hurricanes to hit the US, damage had been done to southern countries like New Orleans, Louisiana. The death toll was also at a large scale as well. Now I was only six at the time, therefore I didn’t really apprehend and sympathize the significance of the hurricane. Also, living in New Jersey, we were not affected by Katrina. The air was starting to get chilly, and…

Case Study Still life is one of the principal genres of Western art. It is art depicting inanimate subject matter, e.g. fruit, flowers and household objects which are usually arranged on a table top or surrounded with fabric. This genre of painting allows for artists to explore their relationship with everyday objects; many still lives have symbolic meanings, revealing stories or ideas. More commonly, the status of the painter (or the buyer of the art, if such is being made for a specific…

dominant hand, participants repeated the same steps with their non-dominant hand. To begin each trial, once settings had been adjusted, the participant was instructed to press start and place the cursor on the red line making an hourglass appear on the screen. The hourglass was a warning sign and would disappear after five seconds, indicating to the participant to start the taps. For the taps the participant was instructed to move the cursor between the target widths and click (tap) the mouse.…

black widows venom, mating habits, Appearance, and many other traits make the black widow a unique subject. The widows appearance is an intriguing feature. They are a shiny black in color and usually the males are lighter in color. They have a red hourglass on the underside of their abdomens. The females are larger than the males. As a species they range from three to ten millimeters in size and usually weigh about one gram. They have combed back feet due to belonging to the Theridiidae family. …

I was alone on the bus again. I rifled around inside the briefcase looking for any other clue as to what it might be, but everything else that was in the briefcase seemed to be resting behind the empty envelope or the book or the hourglass. Every time that I tried to move something out of the way to get a better look at something, one of the other objects would be obscuring my view of it. After what felt like a few moments of this, I looked up to see that the stop was…

My main area of concentration for all of my art pieces was to portray the ideas of suffocation from stress. Initially, there were several concepts that I had in mind to focus on, however, I feared that I would have failed in constructing it properly. Thus, I settled with concentrating on this idea for I had various ways of representing suffocation under stress, and how it entraps one in a singular place. I hoped to create drawings that emphasized on my application of colors, which frequently…