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.

Vessel project

Our first project was to make a vessel, which is something that can hold something else. My original idea was to have a sphere turning into butterflies and for the vessel to hold the butterflies but the end result turned out more like a nest. I decided to use copper and silver wire to make this because I thought it would look cooler and work better. I made the shape by weaving the coils in and out. This thing caused a lot of little cuts all over my hands, this project really made me work. I cut out paper butterflies and constantly changed the size of the outward coils. All said and done,I really like the end result.

A couple weeks after we made it we photographed it... Sooo here are a lot of pictures:

Art Article 2: Van Gogh Newly Discovered Artwork

Kate Borck

Ms Sudkamp

Sculpture, 4

12 September 2013

Article 2

            Van Gogh is a famous artist who started making inspiring artwork in the late 1800s. His art is highly prized and worth a large amount of money. As with most artists, their work is lost and later found at random times, far after their creation. Sometimes it is even destroyed and later found in photos. Another piece of Van Gogh, Six Sunflowers, was destroyed in 1945 while in Japan. A photo of it was found many years after its destruction, showing it in the orange frame that Van Gogh presented the piece in. Unfortunately, great artists like Van Gogh have their work destroyed or lost over the years and it is hard for art inspectors to distinguish between an artist’s real work and a fake. This sometimes leads real art pieces to be undiscovered or not accepted as a real or original work, even if it is. Van Gogh’s work is inspirational and known worldwide; it is unfortunate that his work is constantly being destroyed or lost. These discoveries also bring on the question that there may be other artworks by famous artists that have yet to be discovered. These new found artworks can change a person’s view on how an artwork should be represented as a whole. For example, Van Gogh wanted Six Sunflowers to be presented in an orange frame, something what was not known before the picture was discovered. These discoveries are exciting for those who are involved; they bring attention to art museums and can greatly affect the owner’s life. The finding of old works of art can greatly affect art enthusiasts everywhere by inspiring them with different techniques and inspiration.

Works Cited

"Newly Discovered Van Gogh Painting Kept in Norwegian Attic for Years." The Guardian. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.

"Rare Van Gogh Sunflowers Image Found." BBC News. BBC, 09 Apr. 2013. Web. 24 Sept. 2013.

Article Assignment 1

Katherine Borck

Ms Sudkamp

Sculpture, 4

03 September 1013

Restoration Failures

            In 2012 an 82-year-old in Spain by the name of Cecilia Gimenez ruined the historic art piece by Elias Garcia Martinez, the Ecce Homo. The destruction of Ecce Homo was a sad day for the artistry of restoration, yet not for the millions of people on the internet who found this hilarious. This is not the first or the last time an art piece has been ruined by those “restoring” it. In the online article The Worst Art Restoration Mistakes of All Time by Esther Inglis-Arkell, we find out that this isn’t the first time a restoration has gone wrong, and won’t be the last. Good art restoration takes talent, hard-to-find materials, and taking the time to recreate every detail that the original artist had made. Unfortunately, not everyone has the patience to do restoration the right way.

            In many former situations, historical art has been ruined by the so-called professionals; not to the extent of the Ecce Homo, but ruined nonetheless. Some examples of restoration blunders given by Inglis-Arkell in her article are The Virgin and Saint Anne, The Tree of Fertility, and Supper at Emmaus. Many times, like with The Virgin and Saint Anne, cleaning the art piece is what destroys it. Often the paint that causes the most important and beautiful details in the piece is washed away along with the dirt and grime, causing the painting to be blurry and multiple shades lighter. In other cases, such as the restoration of Supper at Emmaus (where the restoration artist “gave the woman a nose job”), the restoration artist changes the appearances of the original subjects of the painting. Whether it be the bad blunder of professional screw-ups or a old lady who is way too confident in her own painting abilities, these failed restorations are a unfortunate part of art today. Hopefully, someday soon, the restoring famous works of art will no longer end in unfortunate mishaps, but the preservation of glorious artworks to be loved throughout generations.  

 

Works Cited

Inglis-Arkell, Esther. "The Worst Art Restoration Mistakes of All Time." Io9. N.p., 28 Aug. 2012. Web. 03 Sept. 2013. <http://io9.com/5938377/the-worst-art-restoration-mistakes-of-all-time>.