Wood and Plater Pal

So I made a pig and decided to be crazy (thanks to Ingy) and instead of painting its pink like a normal one, I covered in in bacon strips that I cut out of paper. This took a long time but in the end was worth it and came out really really well. I used cardboard, wire and paint for the nose, eyes and ears. This took the least amount of time and was the easiest to make. I  decided no to make the nose or ears out of bacon because you dont get bacon from either of those things so I just painted them pink.
For wood I decided to make a house for my pig. I was suppose to work with Silmar but since he hasnt been here I did it by myself and it was hard. I ran in to a lot of problems on the way and didnt really like the whole wood thing. In the end my wood house was just basically a box on the bottom and then a triangle on top. I asked Joe for help and everything worked out good in the end and now I like it.

Blog on Clay

I made a butterfly out of clay and each wing had a different texture and was shaped a little differently to give it extra style. This one combined both the texture and the animal projects assigned in one. I then made a pot that started out on the poetry wheel and ended with me shaping it because the I couldn't get the right shape on the wheel. I then added texture and design to that pot as well. This piece combined texture and texture and what ever you want. The last piece I made was just something that I just shaped and put together. It was the one piece that I did what ever I wanted on so I did all the assigned projects and more.

My process during the whole time was just make what ever comes to mind and go with it. That is how I made the butterfly and then the jar type thing at the end. My experiment went well also except for on the pottery wheel. I had a lot of trouble on the wheel because I couldnt get the shape right or it kept breaking. I tried it a few more times and then got the bottom shape on the wheel then took it off and shaped the sides of it myself.

Brainstorm on Plaster Project

• Make a cube and then chip away at it to make a sculpture
• Make a mask and then decorate it
• Make the balloon plaster machete thing and then make it in to a animal

Is it Sculpture or Paper?

This is a sculpture. My main idea was to make a boat and then float it in the big tubs of water people were using to make their paper and to see if the small pieces of the paper left behind would have any effect on my boat. I first made a paper boat which was like doing origami, and then put it in the water and let it do its thing. It floated fine and didnt sink at all. I then took the Starbucks Label off my drink, I was having that morning, and decided to make a flag for my boat and see if that would make any difference. It did. The flag was too heavy and off balance so the whole boat just fell over. After that I decided to make my boat pretty and added remains of other peoples paper scraps and stuck them on to the side of my boat.

This is a piece of paper that I found and thought was really cool. It is very thick and has a lot of extra pieces of random things in it. I really like how it is different colors and has such distinct other pieces in it.

Sketch to Sculpture

The main difference between my sketch and my sculpture is that the sculpture is 3D. This means that you can touch, move and see all angles of the sculpture. The sketch is only pencil on paper which you can only see because I would of only drew the things I saw in the picture. The sculpture also had a lot more detail because I cut out the designs of the bricks but in the picture I didnt.

The process I took to make each of these things was also very different. When making the sketch all I did was sit in front of the it a look up and down between my paper and the wall and draw what I saw. This took about 10 minuets and wasn't very hard. The sculpture on the other hand took about a week and I am still not done. I first had to cut out every piece of the main wall and glue them together, then I had to go back up to the wall and look at all the details of the bricks. After that I craved out each brick and then painted it to make it look more realistic. As you can see the process is very different and the sculpture takes a lot longer to make then the sketch.

Looking Forward

 As of right now I am working on a card for my mom because her birthday is tomorrow and I thought she would really like it if I made her a very arty/homemade-type of card or anything because she is all about homemade things. One thing I really enjoyed doing was using the charcoal and just drawing. I also really like spray painting. I dont know how well those two different materials work together but I want to try it out and just start drawing on a square piece of paper and just see where it goes. I will do this in class and if I like it come up during Friday club block and work on it some more.

Picture of Symbolics Project

Picture of Crane Making

Reflecting at the end of the year.

I think this year has gone extremely well for me. I think that I really learned a lot and became a stronger artist. I think my most improved type of art would be my drawing. At the begging of the year I drew a tree probably like a 3rd graders would draw a tree a large bottom and a cloud looking top that usually wasnt even connected. But now after all the tuesdays where we would drop everything and draw I can see the difference and draw an actual tree that has details and looks like it is a part of nature not mars. Drawing was definitely a challenge for me in the beginning but now it is one of my favorite things to do. I think that colleges, colors and using different materials are some of my strengths. Some challenges I had were coming up with good, detailed ideas. I will definitely remember everything from this class, especially that you can fix your piece of art no matter what happens and that there are so many different materials that can work with one piece.

SKETCHBOOK ARCHEOLOGY

This year I think my sketchbook has played a huge role in my artistic development. On every page there is something new and I tried using a lot of different materials as well as just free hand drawing which I really liked. I did a lot of collages and paint type materials in the beginning of the sketchbook but as you turn towards the back I start to draw more and use the spray paint. There are a lot of different style, materials, ways of drawing and ideas in my sketchbook. It really became something I used just to start drawing with out an idea and then make it in to something at the end or maybe just leave it half empty. I think I used it really well and it helped me try new things which is always fun! Some materials that sho up more then once are spray paint, magazine collages, paint pens, color pencil, pencil, oil pastel and pens. Themes that happened a lot in my sketchbook was color and creativity.

Clay Project

About my MOM

• Hard Working
• Jumping from place to place driving me and my brother around
• Loving
• In the Class room
• In the mountains
• KANGAROO IN THE MOUNTAINS
• A little rough texture for the fur mountains will be rugged and have sharp edges 
• Looking at it sideways 
• Will see the side of the kangaroo but face will be our way
• Mountains will be behind it bigger then the animal

Symbolic Portrait

Scott Allen

SCOOTER!!
Chocolate Milk Shake every morning
Walks Tucker around the Resivor
Tucker: English Springer Spaniel
Wine Business
College Sweat Hearts with Suzi

• Meet at a party
• Sent her flowers the next morning

Sweet
Funny
Loves Me
Photography-animals
Beats up sydney leaves buses
Iphone=baby
loves james bond
wishes he was in the FBI or secret service
eats beans out of a container
Drives a Audi


Milk shake with shipped cream and a cherry with all these things inside of it coming out of the glass and everything

Big Iphone with apps of each thing he does or eats

CRANES FOR JAPAN PROJECT

The image that stayed with me the most was the one of a boat in the middle surrounded by broken houses, bridges and just piles of wood all around it. It sort of looks like a dump. One wish I have for Japan is that the building get rebuilt fast. Second wish for Japan would be that they all heal and have a better life after then any of them had before. And my last wish is that they find at least 2 people from their families.

Getting back to materials

For the project I chose to use tooth picks because I thought it would be a challenge and I have never used tooth picks for any art project before. I also thought it would be easier then it was because I thought I could bend them and break them and stuff. For my process I just started making a circular shape with the tooth picks but since they are straight objects it turned out to be more like octagon. I then broke some of the tooth pick in pieces and chose the ones that seemed kind of the same length and glued them down as eye brows. I then just keep picking pieces from the pile I made and made the eyes then nose then mouth. I thought my finished product was alright. I mean it wasnt a master piece but I thought it was funny and I thought it was even funnier because I didn't get to finish the other side of my hair.