Mini project!

We had to make a small project for the end of our class so I made valentines bear! He was originally going to have a body but then I thought... Nahhhhhhh. I came up with it cause valentines day is soon...ish.

I started by making a flower-like shape on a piece of pink paper and cutting it out. I then bent and taped the petals together to make a orb shape. I taped on ears and glued the red ear centers. I made a small bow and eyes. I then hot glued it to a red circle cut-out and glued little hearts next to it and on the back of the bear. I used a red marker for the mouth.

Final thoughts: I think it's super cute and relatively easy but if I were to do it again I would make sure the "petals" of the flower shape were cute equal for a better result. 

Here are pictures:

Repetition

This project started out with Ms Sudkamp having us write words that depict repetition. We had to write 15 words in our sketchbook, here is mine:

One of the things was "repetition is the key to memorization", I had the idea to make a brain with a key unlocking it but decided that the idea would be better as a illustration, not a 3D work. My other idea was to do a Cubism piece of a hat or antler helmet but I needed the shape of a head to build on... I couldn't find one and didn't want to or know how to fabricate one so... That was out.

One day I just wanted to make clay sheep...so I did... I made 3 and a little plot of ground for them to stand on. My repetition was having multiple sheep. Here it is:

I like the outcome, I think it's adorable, but if I were to do it again I'd try to keep the sheep the same size and be more careful with my paint. 

Marble drop

I worked with Santiago on this marble drop, our theme was picture/film. I came up with this theme because Santiago loves cameras and taking pictures... So why not? I fabricated the cameras and painted Dosa taking a picture with a camera. Santiago came up with most of the mechanical parts, so I didn't have a lot of difficulty. I guess the most difficult part was that the black spray paint cans were all empty. The marble travels down the ramp, through the camera, down the coiled tunnel, through the pipes and into the mini camera. We made the tracks out of wetted and formed mat boardand popsicle sticks. If I could change one thing... I would make it prettier and more accurate. I'm most proud of my painting because its the main esthetic that I did.

Pressure

I was really uninspired for this project, i sketched out a picture of the first thing that came to my mind: a bitten and beat up pencil. I tried making it out of clay but didn't look right to I scrapped it. I decided to just take some wire and spool it around. It looked like a carrot. I took a piece of cardboard and glued dirt on it then glued the carrot on it and spray painted the dirt to make it look darker. I spray painted a bunny shadow into the dirt. Here it is

I guess i like the idea of the piece maybe? But really I just don't like any of it. I wouldn't change anything about the piece, I would just do something else instead. Or maybe make it ginormous. Not too happy with it...Oh well. Can't all be winners. 

Land Art

Land art is temporary art made with nature materials/ on land. My inspiration was to make a dress out of leaves, I went outside and obtained some leaves from the nearby trees. I grabbed some rubber cement, figuring that it would be more sturdy. I originally wanted to make it on a tree: 

But the leaves kept falling off due to a blowing wind. So I instead did it on a little boardwalk: 

I started with some rubber cement...

Put leaves on to form the top and then started layering at the bottom of the dress so the leaves would layer better.

After attaching the leaves I put a branch with leaves still on it to give it dimension. But... It wouldn't glue down so I just left it on top.

I found some branches with dead leaves and put them at the bottom, sort of like the leaves were transitioning into death. 

I found some colorful leaves as accents and decided to make the dress a autumn dress. Representing how the leaves change color and die.

So I added more colors. 

More pictures: 

I liked how it just looked like a pile of leaves from this angle.

I'm pretty pleased with it... If I was going to do something different with it I probably would have taken it a step further and made it wearable but that would take wayyy more than the time allotted. 

This is the thing 2 days later with it raining outside:

 

 

Fishy!

We are currently doing slotted sculptures in class so Ms Sudkamp decided we could use a break. We made clay fishes! I made mine more whale-like to make it cuter and then added scales. I painted the scales in multiple colors to make it colorful. If I did it again I wouldn't paint the mouth black.

Relief Piece

I got very frustrated with this project. 

At first I wanted to make a technically infused arm coming out of a computer piece or book, but the weight would be too heavy to make this into a relief piece, so I reluctantly scrapped the idea.

Then I was going to create a face inside a book and make it like a Facebook obsession piece because I have been doing a concentration on over-obsession. I also played with the idea of a hoarder surrounded by objects.

 But I got frustrated with it and hated the concept so I started over but we were already a few days into the project when I started anew. I ended up trying to make a piece inspired by a homework assignment.

I decided to use air-dry clay to make the sculpt along with silver wire and painted it with acrylic.

I'm satisfied with the final piece but I feel like I could have done better.