Vessels Project

For the vessels project I made a football that was made out of clay. It was supposed to have holes in it so it could act as a lamp shade but i became pressed for time and forgot to add them.I picked clay for this project because it would be the easiest way to create the unique shape the football. Although I selected the clay to use for the football shape it was still very difficult, I had to almost do a paper mache type creation by wrapping balls of newspaper taped together in a football shape. I f I could redo this project i would try to work on capturing the actual shape of the football because my football was very lop sided.

Meet The Artist: Bryant Holsenbeck

Before Meeting Her: Holsenbeck is an artist who takes old trash and transforms them into works of art, mainly animals. I'd expect her visit tomorrow to be kind of a struggle because she is having to teach us so much in such a little time. The project is gonna be rough since this is a new form of art to all of us. I'm going to attempt to do a polar bear.

After Meeting The Artist:  I met my expectations that I set myself for this project; I didn't feel like this would be terrible but I knew it wouldn't be amazing considering this was my first time attempting such a sculpture. A major problem I had with this project was getting even a general shape out of the wire to use for my bear. 

Painting

Lately in mr. Sands art class we had to do a painting. But not just an ordinary painting we had to chose three references and draw them as one picture. if you were in this picture you would here the crashing of giant and powerful waves. Along with the smell of sea salt.

Adobe Illustrator

In Art today we used Adobe Illustrator to create flowers. All these flowers were created from stars but cropped and altered with the power of Illustrator.

SO FAR SO GOOD

We have done so much in Mr. Sands class and I am so  proud of how far I have come. The picture on the left is probably my most successful because I actually tried and I wanted it to look good. Also I thought the spray paint looked fun so I got to work on my project so I could enjoy the project.      






I learned a lot from he shadow junk pile picture. I learned that art isn't always about drawing and painting, you can also make work out of everyday objects like the McDonald's cup and sumbrero in our picture.

Printing Press

Lately in Mr. Sands Art class we have been doing prints. Prints are kind of like stamps, you carve into this little rubber block and spread ink across it then press it to paper and the image appears. Here I made a sea turtle with a lot of colors. The only thing I don't like about it is that the ink fades on the corners which meant I should have added more. And most importantly I LIKE TURDLES!!!

Spray Paint Portraits

For step number 2 of the stencil unit we did face spray paint portraits. Most people cut out three portraits to spray paint, but I decided to take a different route and only cut out one with a gradient. And for those of you who don't know a gradient is when you put down one color and it slowly blends into another. In the picture you can see me unvailing my amazing portrait to Anthony Silk with him totally enthrlled at how amazing it is.