Peanut

I enjoyed this project and was surprised how far the class was able to go with this project. We started by just drawing a stereotyped peanut. You rarely find those perfect symmetrical peanuts in a bad; most are oddly shaped. But, still that is was most people drew. I thought it was interesting that we highlighted the characteristics that did not fit into that mold of the perfect symmetrical peanut and accentuated them. After observing the peanut, all the students were even able to pick theirs out from a large pile of other peanuts. The deformities in our peanuts gave us interesting ideas for a life story or occupation. Just from the things that made our peanuts different from those symmetrical ones we think of, we were able to associate long lists of personality traits. Even thinking about something as insignificant as a peanut for so long, trying to associate feelings with its appearance, I thought it was amusing that most of the students in the class did not want to eat it at the end of the project. This project was one of my favorites because it was silly and fun, yet it still had some relationship with art and could be connected with the class.