Over the semester I have learned about new art elements, and how to create certain art peices. I enjoyed creating the shoe drawing, adding the small details, and adding the shadows. I learned how to create a pastel drawing, properly. You need to start with the lighter colors, and then add on the darker colors so that the picture doesn't smear. I also learned how to shade and draw different types of drawings. I hope to use these skills in the future, hopefully becoming an architect or interior designer. I might try to take a ceramics art class at MSHS.
I created a box with mountains and trees on the sides. Most the box is the color blue or turquoise, with a little brownish green in the trees. I made the mountains by digging out clay so they look like they are in the background. I used a ball tool to give the tree texture, creating leaves. I used a small piece of string Nd payed it in the inside, pressing it down to create texture like a rope. I learned how to create slabs of clay and create a box with them. I didn't flatten the top peices to make them look like mountains, and be all bouncy. The box makes me feel relaxed with the mountains in the background, and the forest in the front. It sort of reminds me of snoqualmie, how the cascade mountains surround the city and there are lots of trees.
I drew a picture of two spooky trees in the front, and a river leading to the river while the sun is setting. I used different texture brushes, making the objects look more realistic. The colors get dimmer the farther back in the picture they get, and the objects get smaller. There are different colors layered over each other, to make the picture more colorful, and not a couple plain colors. There are at least five different shades of green, and four shades of brown.
The soft slab cup is about the size of a 8 ounce glass, with a small handle on one side, and a sea star on the other. There are lines wrapped around the cup, that are blue. There is turquoise glaze on the star and around it, with a light blue glaze on the outside of the lines. One new skill I learned was how to form a cup, using another cup to trace it out. The cup express's and shows excitement from the different shades of blue, and having the lines pop out with the dark blue.
The reindeer pinch pot is the shape of an oval, will circular eyes, ears, small antlers, and feet. It is about the size of both my hands holding it. It has a smooth surface, with its eye sockets bending in, so its a circle around the eye balls. The ears are bent over, like they are floppy. The reindeer is brown, and the texture of the color looks like marble. There is little white paint on the antlers, and black dots for the pupils on the eyes. One new skill I learned, was how to make a hollow ball, and shaping it into a figure. One art element is hitting the ball of clay with a wooden spoon to deform the circle, and create a new shape for the pinch pot. The pinch pot makes me feel relaxed, because it looks like it is sitting down, and not very active. The neutral colors also make me feel relaxed, by not being super bright like energy.
Rubric: I have created a clay project with some sculptural details that will handle the kilm without breaking. I can slip and score clay attachments onto the main body with out them falling off and they are securely attached. I have some sculptural details in the clay to make the reindeer stand out and become more life like. I would give the pinch pot a 24 out of 25 because I have followed most the rubric, and have added details and texture, and have slip and scored the pot while following directions. I created this drawing by trying the different textures, colors, and types of brushes for painting. I did two layers in the drawing. The first has the background colors, and the lighter lines, and the second layer has all the lines in front. I tried using the mirroring, which made the picture symmetrical. I learned how to use the different brushes, and which brush I should use for different objects like grass, or water.
I have finished creating the cup in clay form, adding the final touches including texture and design. I have used the some ideas I have with the pinch pot is using a brown glaze for the body, while highlighting small details like the eye balls, and pupils, or the feet and antlers.
I made a reindeer that is sitting down. It stayed intact and did not fall apart at all. My reindeer did not break and the hole in the bottom allowed it to not explode. To make it better, I could have added a mouth and tongue, along with a collar with bells as if it was pulling Santa's sleigh. I could have also added a tail to make it more realistic, but besides that I think my reindeer is pretty good. Formative: I have learned about the mid-fire range clay, and how it is different from the clay used in middle school. It is much nicer quality, and is usable for food. It's process of being fired takes less time that the other type of clay. I also learned how to make a pinch pot, and learned that they are hollow on the inside.
The pattern on my box is a forest in the front with mountains in the background. I used strands of extra clay to keep the walls together, by slipping and scoring and rubbing the corners together. It was hard to keep the corners of clay together when they dried out a little, so I used some slip to mosturize it and let it be more movable and not crack able.
For my portrait painting I painted a picture of my 7th grade school photo. I used different shades of colors, making skin tones, shadows, hair colors and hair shadows, eyes and lip colors. I would give myself a 23/25 because I retraced my portrait drawing onto the painting portrait which looked about the same almost better, my facial features we're almost about correct and same size, the colors I used showed the features and shadows, and my painting looks a little like my drawing.
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