{"id":2812,"date":"2021-05-16T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:12:23","slug":"sydney-final-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/art-in-the-makerspace-21\/spsmith\/sydney-final-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney – Final Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I will start off with the layers project, since that is the first project we did. I was inspired by a lake in the Adirondacks that my family vacations at every year for the past 50 years, Raquette Lake. I used a map from the DEC website and traced the different depths of the lake, with the lowest being 90 feet at the upper left corner of the lake. I used 1\/4 inch pine wood and transparent blue acrylic. I cut out each layer in both the wood and the acrylic, and used a polycrylic top coat on each layer of wood, and did three coats on each. I then placed each acrylic piece into the matching layer of wood and glued the back so the acrylic pieces didn’t fall out. I ran into an issue with the wood being slightly thinner than the acrylic, so I had to compensate by adding three layers of wooden veneers in between each normal layer of wood, and I glued them together using wood glue. I am so proud of how it turned out, and the acrylic effect of the depth worked exactly how I wanted it to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n