The Results Of Boredom & Creativity

I just wanted you all to know that Ullr had a small problem truly understanding WE needed snow AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!

I don't believe all of you did what I told you to do.

I'm ashamed of you.

The snow was delivered almost a week late and the snow was given to the east coast before us. That's 100% not acceptable!

Moving on....

So lately I've been into making movies.

Is that normal?

Eh.

Who cares?

Anyways....

Last weekend my activities consisted of homework, skiing, homework, scary movies, homework, some painting, homework, popcorn, and even more homework.

(By the way, teachers, I would really appreciate it if you would stop giving me so much homework over the weekend. The weekend is when I'm supposed to being #partyinghard not #doinghomework)

So it was a Sunday afternoon and I was supposed to work on my science fair project (Yuck!) with my dearest friend Tushig. But she didn't want to be seen with my in public (okay, just kidding that'd be 100% insulting although sadly I understand why.) So bored quickly engulfed me.

I was looking around my room trying to find something to do while thinking, "What is it that I could do on this horribly quiet Sunday afternoon?" 

FUN FACT: It was actually anything but quiet around the Fisher household. There were three fifth grade boys running around "working" on their science fair project.

My funtastic options included: cleaning my room (Nah.), making another batch of popcorn, helping my brother and his friends with his science fair project (No way José!!), or making some sort of painting.

So I went with the best option.

Painting.

And I had absolutely no idea what I should paint.

Then I remembered a post that a friend did on a DIY for tape art.

So that's were my inspiration came from with my own sort of twist to it.

But I wanted to make it even more exciting!



I decided to make a stop motion while doing the painting! I had never done a stop motion before so it took a lot of experimenting first.

I know you really don't care to know step by step on how I did this so here's a quick summary with how I did it and all the strange things that happened to me along the way.

My artsy pictures along with the totally awkward ones

I had to put my precious camera on my tripod that was raised all the way up, while aiming down at my painting table. (This is a lot harder than it sounds which also gave me many bruises that weren't appreciated from falling off the chair. Oh the joys of being clumsy.)

Then I had to make sure I took plenty of pictures while doing the painting. (Sometimes I forgot. Oops!) I know by the end of the project I had over one-hundred pictures. (For me, that's actually a bare minimum.)

But luckily pictures don't have the ability to capture smell.

Um... Morgan... That's a little random.

You should just be thankful that you couldn't smell what I smelt while doing this project.

My brother and his friends, thought it would be hilariously funny if they kept coming into my room and farting. And let me tell you, those farts were not pleasant in any sort of way.

I suffered through the farts and the falling of the chair without a broken bone or a loss of smell.

But overall my project was a success! The painting along with video turned out better than I expected or even hoped!

If you ever try this type of painting or a stop motion, I wish you the best of luck! ;) Oh and let me know how it goes!

P.S. Incase you didn't figure it out my stop motion is above and all the pictures above that are of my not-a-failure painting!