Scrafito

We used a tray to form clay around it. Then we painted it black/ wax and then started carving our design. I think the Tigers texture is very successful, but there are a lot of scratches that take away from the design 

Parachute

We used the balloons as a form, we put plaster over the balloon and then painted it. I used fishing line to attach a nail person.  I think this is a very cool project.

Wire tree

We started by taking wire about 20 inches long to achieve a tree about 8 inches tall. After we cut them we made roots by making a loop and twisting loops at the bottom. We twisted all of the 20 wires together and then started making the branches. If I could do this differently I would make it shorter and have a smaller rock. 

Bowl

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These bowls were really fun to work on! Each bowl was a completly different process. 

The blue and red bowl was made on a wheel where you wedge the clay, center it, and then start building up.

The green and yellowish bowl was a pinch pot. I didn't like the pinch pot because it was very hard to make it even and neat.

The last bowl was paper maché with fabric, I used a dark red on the outside and a blue on the inside.

My favorite bowl was the kick wheel, the whole process was new to me and over all was just fun to make! 

Wood

Unconventional materials

So I don't have any pictures of this piece because it well wasn't good. I was given a red lace material. I decided to make a dragon out of wire and then put the red lace over it to add accents and color. In the process of making said "dragon" I cut my self bent multiple wires and struggled.... A LOT.  It was a fun project but in the end it ended up in the garage. (Where it belongs) if I had to do anything different I would have used a thicker wire. The problem was that it wasn't sturdy enough and the wires would bend when I was trying to bend another wire.. So after a week of preserving I couldn't overcome my struggles... DRAGON = 1... Alex = 0.  

If I had this project again I would give it as a group project. Give them more than one material to make a sculpture or bigger piece, kind of a challenge thing and see what they come up with! 

Pit firing pt.2

We started using clay, we made the shape and then let it dry out! We used spoons to get the piece as smooth as possible. Then we fired the piece and painted it with red clay. Then we wrapped the piece with different objects that will burn. Put that in a foil saggar and let it burn. 

This process is very unique and no one piece is alike. That's what makes this process special.

I liked the idea of this piece, if I would do it again I would put less stuff in the foil saggar. There fore the piece would hopefully be a little neater and less ugly. 

Pit fire pt. 1

Pit firing is a technique to make unique pieces of art. Artist wrap their pieces with anything that burns and wrapped in foil to create burn marks! Foil saggar is what you wrap the piece in, that holds the combustible items and traps the smoke to the piece. The designs that you create on one piece will be completely different than ones on an other. They will never be exactly the same. That's what makes pit firing so special. I tried to make a triangle pyramid but then found that the sides would look cool pushed out so that's what I did!

Form project

Relief Pt. 2

I think that the detail in the eagle is very successful. The texture really pops and makes it realistic. The goal of this piece was to have your eye drawn to the eye of the eagle and the addition of the glass really does that! I feel like the paint on the piece really ruins the look of it. The piece also broke which makes the piece look incomplete. My piece originally was going to be just the tile, but then it broke. I over came that challenge by adding more tiles to create the rest of the eagle. The mini projects did help with my sculpting abilities and learning what each tool does. 

Artist inspired

The artist that inspired me was Wang Ruilin. He focuses on art based in Beijing China. He mainly uses what looks like a clay! What drew me in as a viewer was his attention to his detail. I personally love his work with animals! He puts the animals in cool positions which really adds a cool atmosphere.

Relief post: part one

I plan on making a eagle out of clay. In the sculpture the beak will be raised up coming out at you. The rest of the bird will be going back into the tile. The eye is the focal point so I plan to melt glass into the eye to really make that pop. This is what inspired me to try this piece http://pin.it/hgattq9

Exam part 3

This project was a bust, if I could do this again, I would! I liked the idea of this project, but things I would do differently would be I would make the letters bigger! I would paint in different colors, maybe blue and green! I would also take my time and blend the colors better! I would use a bigger canvas, because the word is too big for the canvas, and you can't see the fade as much! This project turned out okay, but it could turn out even better! 

Exam part 3

Original art

This piece of art is original, because there is no other art like it! I did get inspiration from other artist. Do to the fact that this project was artist inspired. I looked at Patrick star, and the thinker pose! I wanted to combine them because patrick doesn't think so it's ironic! My ideas were using Patrick's rock as the stone that the thinker sits on! To adding colors in his pants! Over all I love this work of art and I'm very proud of it! 

Final exam

We collaborate 

We started this project as something fun to do! We were not really inspired by anything! It started off with just splatter paint!! Then I decided to add an alien! Claire and Hannah gave us ideas on what to add! They told us to add more aliens. You came in and helped add the shading and very minor details that make the project look a lot better! Over all I love how this project turned out! 

Blog post

I just finished a stop motion animation project. I used pages in my book and had stick figures jumping out of a plane. They had a battle and at the end they both die. 

I'm currently working on a project.. Artist steal, I'm putting Patrick star in the thinker pose. Ironic right? The medium I'm going to be using is clay. Im not geed with clay so it will be a challenge.

Art 3 snapshot #2

The faded project is complete!!!! I think that it turned out okay, not what I thought it was going to turn out like. Sometimes that's the way the best art comes out. Last time you saw it, it was just coming together! I blended the paint and I think the fade really came together if I had done a better job with the letters. I think my favorite part is the un even gradient . 

New project-

I have decided to do print making on an elephant and I am working on Pinterest and my sketches!

The elephant will be printed on the ez cut. And then will be cut out! 

Text Art

I found some ideas of text art on Pinterest! Using Pinterest helped gather some ideas for my challenge ideas and my final project. 

http://pinterest.com/alexm2309/zebra/

Challenge #1

-using symbols to spell a word.

Challenge #2

-using a word to make an object.

 

For my final project I had the idea of using paint as a medium. Then after I knew what medium I was going to use. I looked on my Pinterest board to gather ideas. I came up with having the word fade. Painting the word faded. 

This is my practice project to see how it would look. I like how it looks, but the fade in the letters are going to be better on the final, to get the full effect. 

Mixed media

This project was very hard because it was a concept that I had to learn as I went. I wasn't here when we went over it but I started to get the concept of adding different things to make my object have the texture appeal and the contrast that I wanted. I think that this project has changed since the original, it started of as just a dragon and then I added the news paper to make it kind of like a Chinese dragon. Also the newspaper contrasted with the dragon to make it pop. I think that this medium/ technique was very hard considering that I have never done this before. I think the strengths of this is that the dragon pops, the weakness is that the dragon looks kinda childish. Overall I think this was a fun project but very hard to make it look not as childish, I would love to do more of this technique.