Thursday, January 21, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
FINAL PROJECT (Sorryyyy it's late I was studying for APES)
1. As you said tools are very important, but I spent a little bit more time and grew to really understand one specific tool this semester. That would be the hot glue gun. Without the hot glue gun, many and I mean MANY of my pieces wouldn't have been able to end up working. Hot glue guns are nifty little tools that are great at sticking things together super quick and quite well. It's not as strong as E600, but it smells a lot better and is much easier to use. Especially with all the practice I've had. Also it is much stronger than your average Elmer's glue. Here is a picture of my beautiful hot glue gun.
2. Now I kind of answered this above, but I have learned so much this semester. Not only with hot glue, but a lot of the clay tools. There are a lot of tricks to make you life so much easier, like the clay rib and Exacto knives.
Questions I chose:
1. I worked with so many different materials this year and I enjoyed working with a lot of them, but my favorite had to be clay. At first I wasn't a fan of clay, my pieces always ended up very lopsided and not how I wanted them to. But after a little bit of help and a lot of help from the tool bucket I got much better. Now I'm not an expert with clay yet, but I really enjoy working with it. My favorite part about clay is just how versatile it is. Now with someone like me, that isn't always a good thing (I get frustrated very easily) but I love getting to make something big and spectacular out of a type of soil. I also really love the glaze on it, it just looks sooo pretty and shiny. Here is a picture of my favorite piece I made out of clay.
2. I saw this question, it hit me like a tornado. My least favorite material to work with. I'll give you some time to guess. Just so you don't cheat or accidentally see the answer you're going to have to scroll a bit to find it.
Plexi Glass. I hate it, IT IS SO HARD TO CUT. I'm sure you know all of this already but the only way to break plexi glass is to cut it with a box cutter and then break it off. It is just so hard to cut through and I have such weak little arms it was nearly impossible! How I dealt with it, this was hard especially because I got a few measurements wrong and had to redo some pieces. Basically I just spent a lot of classes cutting and being frustrated. And here's the exact same picture as above, but this time just look at the box/ "Seaworld".
3. Okay you're almost done! For my last question I'm going to surprise you a little bit. I wanted to pick a more heartfelt question for my last one, because this is the last thing you'll be reading of mine for a while so... I picked my absolute favorite project. You wanted me to pick the piece I grew the most from. So I was scrolling through all my pieces this year and I found this one and I realized not only did I learn the most, grow the most, but it really was my favorite piece. Anyways it is sitting in a landfill somewhere, but it will always hold a special place in my heart. Can you guess what it is, yes it's my very first main project, my now broken Holiday Wreath. As difficult and stubborn as this piece was I learned so much from it, I incorporated so many different styles and elements to it, and of course I love Christmas. I learned to use drywall, and electric saw thing, work with lights, a drill, wire, hot glue ;) paint, and some broken ornaments (glass). Even though it broke, twice, I had so much fun making this piece, it was super creative and fun to make and it really was a great start to an amazing year (or semester).
Anyways sorry this is so long, and late :/ Hope you enjoyed reading because I LOVED being in your class:) See you in sculpture 2!!!!
2. Now I kind of answered this above, but I have learned so much this semester. Not only with hot glue, but a lot of the clay tools. There are a lot of tricks to make you life so much easier, like the clay rib and Exacto knives.
Questions I chose:
1. I worked with so many different materials this year and I enjoyed working with a lot of them, but my favorite had to be clay. At first I wasn't a fan of clay, my pieces always ended up very lopsided and not how I wanted them to. But after a little bit of help and a lot of help from the tool bucket I got much better. Now I'm not an expert with clay yet, but I really enjoy working with it. My favorite part about clay is just how versatile it is. Now with someone like me, that isn't always a good thing (I get frustrated very easily) but I love getting to make something big and spectacular out of a type of soil. I also really love the glaze on it, it just looks sooo pretty and shiny. Here is a picture of my favorite piece I made out of clay.
2. I saw this question, it hit me like a tornado. My least favorite material to work with. I'll give you some time to guess. Just so you don't cheat or accidentally see the answer you're going to have to scroll a bit to find it.
Plexi Glass. I hate it, IT IS SO HARD TO CUT. I'm sure you know all of this already but the only way to break plexi glass is to cut it with a box cutter and then break it off. It is just so hard to cut through and I have such weak little arms it was nearly impossible! How I dealt with it, this was hard especially because I got a few measurements wrong and had to redo some pieces. Basically I just spent a lot of classes cutting and being frustrated. And here's the exact same picture as above, but this time just look at the box/ "Seaworld".
3. Okay you're almost done! For my last question I'm going to surprise you a little bit. I wanted to pick a more heartfelt question for my last one, because this is the last thing you'll be reading of mine for a while so... I picked my absolute favorite project. You wanted me to pick the piece I grew the most from. So I was scrolling through all my pieces this year and I found this one and I realized not only did I learn the most, grow the most, but it really was my favorite piece. Anyways it is sitting in a landfill somewhere, but it will always hold a special place in my heart. Can you guess what it is, yes it's my very first main project, my now broken Holiday Wreath. As difficult and stubborn as this piece was I learned so much from it, I incorporated so many different styles and elements to it, and of course I love Christmas. I learned to use drywall, and electric saw thing, work with lights, a drill, wire, hot glue ;) paint, and some broken ornaments (glass). Even though it broke, twice, I had so much fun making this piece, it was super creative and fun to make and it really was a great start to an amazing year (or semester).
Anyways sorry this is so long, and late :/ Hope you enjoyed reading because I LOVED being in your class:) See you in sculpture 2!!!!
Unconventional Material Project
I knew that I wanted to make some sort of dress when I heard about this project. My material that I got ended up being mulch, this was the first problem. Luckily my super nice teacher let me change it, and the second thing I got was wallpaper books. These are books filled with small scraps of wallpaper. At first I thought I would be able to sew the wallpaper together because it was a very flexible and cloth like material. However, this did not work out and I ended up having to use a hot glue gun to make my piece. I also wanted to make a dress, but it ended up being a skirt because of timing. Something I would change in the future would definitely be adding a top to the dress. Even though that was a lot of negative stuff, I really loved the way the skirt ended up looking. Here are some pictures of the finished project!
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