Freshmen Flags

What is a flag? Is it symbolism? Maybe it's just a piece of fabric that had shapes and colors and there is no meaning? The whole freshmen class in the e-Comm program went down to the Ravens Nest to find out what our first project would be, I was not expecting flags. I was a little confused but after they explained what we would be doing I started to get excited. This will be fun, we can design a flag. I started brainstorming things that would be cool on a flag. We had to pick a color that best described our personality and then pick a symbol that described you. I picked the color blue because it stands of calmness and for my symbol I picked the theater masks, Thalia and Melpomene. Then I added paint splats to their faces because I also enjoy art. After everyone in my group had their stuff figured out we dew a rough sketch of the design. We had a sun setting over a light blue ocean at the very bottom and love the ocean we had the sky growing darker. I suggested having our symbols in the sky as constellation and everyone agreed so it stuck. We then worked out all the kinks in the rough draft and drew a little darker and added symbols to the sky Someone hd a trouble clef, someone else had a paint pallet, someone had headphones, and someone had a quill. My group was very creative and we all worked well together, adding onto ideas and suggesting things. We are al artist too so that helped when we where drawing outside on Wednesday. Wednesday came and it was picture day, it was raining, and we had to draw with chalk. Doesn't seem like a good commotion right? Well surprising I didn't get anything on my pants and my hair was only sightly frizzy. We went outside, grabbed a box of chalk and tried to find a square that wasn't to wet. We found a spot next to the Raven statue then we got to work. We started with the sunset then we added the symbols so the black wouldn't get into the picture since they were supposed to be white. Then we did the sky, blending wet chalk was;t that bad it just felt weird. After we finished we all stepped back to admire our work. It turned out nicely in my opinion and it was really colorful. Then it started raining and all the flags got washed away. The End.