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    The first week was very eventful! On Thursday, our class visited the Cleveland Zoo to get ideas for what we want our final creation to be. The end goal of the intensive is to make an animal of some kind, whether that be a float, mask, consume, etc. Even though my friends and I are just there to help out Sklad and Ms. Buckley, we still plan on creating something for the parade like the rest of the students. We saw many different animals on our trip, but the highlight was the capybara. My friends and I had already planned to make something based on a capybara because we love them. Here are some pictures I took during our visit. 

(This is a capybara)


    After going to the Zoo, my friends and I now want to make a float of a capybara, but we want to make it interesting somehow (give it fun colors or wings). 
    On Friday, we spent most of the day helping Ms. Buckley create the float for the murals. There are going to be four murals and they will all be animal-themed. We as a class have to decide what to put on them. Gaby and I started by measuring the fabric, which will be stretched out and put around the frame. The process of measuring and cutting each piece took around an hour and a half. After we had our pieces, we had to cover them in gesso, which prepares the fabric to be painted on. There's usually a layer of gesso on a typical canvas, as it helps get rid of texture. This was a very lengthy process and it took us the rest of the day to do it, even after recruiting other seniors and students to help us. All four canvases are ready now though, and we will most likely start Monday by stretching them onto the frame floats. Here's a time-lapse I took of our process: 


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