Ceramic Bowl

 

Ceramic Bowls

This week in art we made ceramic bowls. The way we did it is to smooth out the clay, then roll it really thin, cut out a design for the edges, then put it onto a bowl so it keeps it's shape. I liked this project because I love working with clay. I love how you can make anything with it. My design was a flower and I painted the bottom piece to look like the center of a flower. After the bowl was taken out of the kiln, we used glaze on it to make it shiny. The final piece looked awesome. I would definitely do this project again.

Frog Tongue Photoshop

                                                                       Frog Tongue

Today in art, we made a lady with a frog tongue. To do this we used photoshop. We took a picture of a frog and a picture of a womans mouth and them, using multiple steps, blended them together to look like she had a frog for a tongue.

Pastels

Pastels

The assignment for this project was to draw what we saw in front of us. My display consisted of a vase with flowers in it, a pear, a teapot, and some glass bottles all up against a shutter.  We had to use at least 3 colors in each piece. I liked this project because you can blend the colors together. The thing I didn't like about the project is that the pastel got all over everything.

Glowstick Art

Glowstick Art

I really enjoyed this project, mostly because it was something different than what we normally do. The way it works is that the camera lens is open for about 8 seconds and it captures everything you draw with the glowstick in that time. We drew some people getting shot, someone smoking, and someone shooting a basketball.

Clay Monsters

Clay Monsters for Kindergarteners

We got to sculpt little monsters for some kindergarteners. They drew us a monster and we had to try and understand what they had drawn, then we made our own sketch of it. Then we sculpted it out of clay. My monster was named Molly. She kind of looked like a chocolate chip cookie. The computer animation class made boxes and "displays" for them. They called her the Dark Lord of Hugs. I don't really know why. She is happy!

Perspective Photos

                                                                    Perspective Pictures

I thought this project was really cool. The way you do it is by standing far away from an object then posing to look like you are standing on it, pushing it over, or doing something else to it. It was fun because i got to squish a car and hold up one of my friends. I think I will continue doing this project when I see good opportunities because it is fun and can look really cool.

Perspective Building

This is my perspective drawing. The assignment was to pick a picture of a building and then complete the building. Mine was hard to draw because there are SO many bricks on this building. There are lots of other details to like the lamp post and the fence. I didn't even attempt to draw the balcony though. This was a fun project because I learned how to draw more realistically.

Skittle Picture!!!

We are making murals out of skittles. We took pictures of ourselves with some kind of expression. My expression was sleepy so I am sleepy eyed with my head on my hands. The picture we are making out of skittles is HUGE. I'm about halfway done and have used about 500 skittles already! I think it will look really cool when the picture is done, but it takes a really long time. I also like that I can eat some of the skittles while working on my project! The skittles get sort of stickym after you work with them for a while. If i were to do this project again, I would make the pixels bigger so I could use less skittles. I would also use jellybeans instead because you can just buy the colors you need instead of buying a lot of packages and not using a lot of the skittles.

Shadow Mural

For this project, we decided to make an underwater ocean scene. I enjoyed this project because I love the ocean and it was fun to re create it. Its also so cool how you can use items you would normally throw away to make awesome art. The materials we used are plastic drinking cups, cardboard, clothespins, styrofoam ball, and lots of string. If I did this project again, I would come up with more of a plan at the beginning. Because we changed our plan a couple of times, we didn't get that much done. The most difficult part of the whole mural was getting the person (who was supposed to be swimming) to stay at the angle we wanted. I'm dissappointed we didn't get to finish our mural, so I would like to do it again sometime. 

Value Portrait

The value portrait was cool. It showed us how shading a picture can really make a huge difference. It makes it so much more realistic! I think that my piece was successful because the shadows ended up looking real. If I did this project again, I would shade lightly first then go over it again. The most difficult part of this portrait was shading the black areas. I had to go over it so many times and my hand got really tired!

Masking Tape Wall Mural

Creating a masking tape mural was a really fun project. It was fun making a picture of something other than a pencil or paint. Getting to choose what we wanted to make was fun too because we could do something we enjoyed. The most difficult part of the whole project was finding a dark surface to put the tape on! What didn't work well was coloring the different paints with washable markers. If we did the project again, I would use colored tape or sharpies to color it. Overall I enjoyed this project and would want to do it again!