In this assignment, I was given the task to create a box with content within that shows a certain feeling or memory of one's past.

- Gift Wrap Tissues

- Craft smart Modeling Clay

- Wooden Dowels

- Wooden boards x2 (8"x10")

- Wooden boards x2 (9"x11")

- Blue Bristol Board

- White Beads

- Plexi Glass x2 (8"x10")

- Sticky Note

- Faber Castell Pencil Crayons

- Wood glue

- Scotch Tape

- Sand Paper

I first brainstormed some ideas and looked at other work students had made during the past few years. I had gotten some ideas of what I wanted to make so I made some thumbnails sketches on the ideas I had.

I first picked the final concept I had wanted to make which was the scene with the tent. I intended this to be a camping scene. I then elaborated on the idea of the tent and produced the final concept picture I would create for the final.

Looking at this concept, I intend to have simple materials used to create this scene. I first started constructing the structure of the box. I used 2 of the boards as the background of the boards and cut them to 8 inches by 10 inches. I then used the blue Bristol board and glued it over the board. I did this to have the right color for the background of the shadow box.

I then continued to work on the background of the shadow box first. I used pencil crayons to change the color of the background. I wanted to create a darker background to make it feel like night. I used the black pencil crayon as well as various blue colored pencil crayons. I had also used white in order to make the moon as well as some of the stars. I added some red in the background for some detail. 

Next, I moved onto constructing the base of the shadow box including the background. I first sanded down the 9"x11" wooden board. I then used the 9"x11" as the base and I glued the two 8"x10" background onto the one 9"x11" wooden board vertically using the wood glue as well as the glue gun.

I then started to create the ground for the scene. I used gray modeling clay to cover over the wooden base. I used blue modeling clay to create the river that matches the concept I had drew earlier.

I used the white beads to create the texture feeling of rocks and I had tried to mold rocks using the gray clay. I then continued to finis the ground of the scene. I had used green modeling clay to create grass in the background. I used white clay to create the pavement near the river. I created a small campfire using the brown, red and gray clay and placed it near the front of the box. I used some of the brown clay to create wooden logs for the campfire.

I continued working on the ground of the scene, I used some more beads to create the rocky texture on the white clay. I then started to work on the tent. I made the tent out of the wooden dowels as well as a sheet of stick note. I used gray clay to create small rocks around the tent to hold the tent in place. I then moved onto creating the tree using the dowels as the base skeleton to hold up the clay. I used darker brown and light brown to create the tree. I then used the green gift wrap tissue to create the bushes as well as the leaves of the tree.

I finished this project by gluing the 2 8"x10" plexi glass on the front to create a window for the viewer to look at. I then sanded the last 9"x11" wooden board and glued it on top of the box to finish the box itself.

Overall, I had fun doing this project as I could create something physically visible. I had used the materials the best I could to create the main objects within the shadow box relating back to my concept. I had wished I could have put some more detail into some objects, for example the campfire. In the end this project met the expectation I had set earlier during the concept creating process.