This is my hybrid animal, a turtle duck, I've named him Tuck. He is a duckling with a turtle shell. He eats fish and loves to swim, which explains why he spends most of his time in the water, though he does sleep in a nest on land with his family. I used a lot of different tools for this project. I used the clone stamp mostly for the shell, I also used the mixer brush tool to blend colors together. I did a lot of shading for this project because the shell was so much darker than the fur of the duckling, so shading helped a lot. Lastly, I used the brush tools for the eraser to make the fur look like it was fluffing over the shell in order to make the shell look like it was actually on the duck. I chose to do a turtle duck because growing up I had a pet duck, and I've always loved them. I am also fascinated with turtles and I thought a duck and turtle would turn out to be a cute hybrid animal together.

To make kaleidoscopes, we had to use symmetry. The word symmetry comes from the Greek roots syn, meaning with or together, and metron, meaning measure. Symmetry is using balance to make things identical. In this picture, I cut out a certain part of what I thought was interesting, which was trees in the fall with the reflection of the trees in the water. I thought it would make for a good kaleidoscope picture.

For this kaleidoscope, I used Inverted Symmetry. Inverted symmetry uses symmetry with one half inverted like a playing cards. This is an interesting variation on symmetry but can make for an awkward balance. First, I took a geometrical picture and cut the part I wanted out of it. Once I did that, I copied the layer and made it symmetrical to the other one. Then, I merged the layers. Once I did that, I repeated those steps making the same shape going the opposite way to fill up the entire page. Lastly, I took a different part of the picture, cut it out, and repeated all of the steps.

For this picture, I used near symmetry. Near symmetry is when two sides opposite of each other are symmetrical, like playing cards.