Karen Nowodzelski

Karen Nowodzelski


Elephant

Elephant side table

Elephant side table. Wood fired raku clay and glaze. 2021.

Self-Portrait

Self Portrait

Artist self portrait. Graphite, charcoal on paper. 2024.

Skull planter

Skull Planter

Woodfired skull planter. Raku clay. 2021.

Fawn

Fawn planter

Fawn Planter. Clay and glaze. 2024.

Beyonce

Beyonce

Beyonce Oil painting from Reniassance album and tour.

Oil on canvas. 2025





Research week 4


DIV
DIV is a block level html element which means that it takes up the whole width of the browser and starts a new line. This can define a block of text, an object or JavaScript. You can assign different DIV attributes in the style section by creating different DIV syntaxes and classes. For example – you can make a purple circle with words in it and label it circle1 and next to that label it circle2. These would both be DIV tags but you specify each one by a specific name you give it.
SPAN
Span is a lot like DIV as in it is an HTML tag and can be styled by CSS in the head. SPAN is an inline element meaning that it is in the line of code. Inline also refers to styling code throughout the body of the webpage instead of in the head or external file. This is where you can change the color of word or even create a box around a phrase.
CSS Class
Creating a CSS class allows you to style the same type of element on a webpage but each individually can be different. You can style the paragraph element but assign 3 different classes and make them different colors or have one centered, to the left or even a different size.
CSS Combinators
A CSS combinator is code that explains the relationship between two selectors in syntax – the first part of the css code.

I created a DIV element on my homepage by creating a small gallery. There are many different ways to create something in CSS such as div.gallery but I went with rows and columns. This element is a border box which is considered a block element and layered the photos within the space. At the bottom of my webpage I created a DIV class footer and styled it to have a background and my name. For my navigation I created the “topbar” class to style that accordingly. I have a child combinator in my gallery code. In this text I added span tags on all of the element heads.