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!

Origami movie review

I thought this movie was really interesting. I love the way all the stuff looks, but it seems like its a lot of work to make stuff that's easier to make with a different material. I do think that it makes it more unique and interesting.  It also seems to involve a lot of math... I don't really like that. I thought it was really cool that they used oragami to help design satellites that went to space. Folding human proteins was another example of using oragami for science.  I had no idea there was so much stuff origami could help with outside of art.

Origami Installation

We created the cranes by taking big pieces of paper, and I followed YouTube tutorials to learn how to make them.  As for how they got together, that was a bit of a bigger process.  We started off by laying all the cranes on the ground in the formation they should be in, strung them together, and then hung them up.  I really liked this project, I love spacing and abstract looking pieces, and this was almost a combination of abstract and like figurative origami stuff. The process was much different than the product in installations, because it's not completely done until the whole installation was done.
Here are some pictures I got off of Carly's blog, took me quite some time to find these things.

Tray and Bowl

I wasn't a huge fan of the process of making these, because I don't like having little mistakes and stuff, so working with molds isn't the most fun for me. I used under glaze in my piece and I loved it, it was easy and quick. However, I ran into a few problems with it. First it made my piece kind of messy, it got into tiny holes that it shouldn't have been in and it didn't stay completely because some of my lines were too faint. Oh well overall I really liked the way they both turned out and that they match!

Dwelling

This is by far my favorite project so far :) But since you're making me focus on the negative... I had quite a difficult time cutting the Plexiglas. I also wasn't the best at shaping the whale, but you helped so it all ended up okay. More negativity... I would change the size of the box my whale was in, he had a bit too big of a "home" for the message I was trying to spread. Lastly with some happy stuff, this project was all around successful as I said before it is my favorite project so far.

Artist

The Figurative artist that i liked was Laurie Pace. She lives in Texas and is a very accomplished artist. I liked her pieces because of the color and shapes in them. The way that she painted all of the people blending into each other was really unique and interesting. It shows how all humans are connected, but all different in our own ways. The other painting she did that I really liked were these hands. A lot of people paint hands, but something about hers really stood out. I love her water color paintings, and just the way she paints. It's really unique and messy but still so pretty. She also incorporated all of the elements into the hands. I didn't notice the fire at first, but the more you look at it the more interesting it gets and I like that. Here are some of her pieces.

Vessel

For my vessel I thought it would be fun to do a box... That was my first mistake. I made many mistakes that I had to overcome, the first as I mentioned before was the fact that I made a box. I don't exactly like boxes, not really even sure why I made this. But the entire time I had to overcome the struggle of hating my piece. In the end it ended up looking not extremely terrible, thanks to your fantastic idea of covering it in glass jars that had fake flowers in them. However, in the future I would never make a box again, and I hope if any of your students ever say "Mrs. Sudkamp I want to make a box," you get my box out and warn them of the ugliness that is in their future. Even though it was ugly, it is probably the most functional piece in this whole room. I mean you really could out anything in it, it could support a good amount of weight so that's probs good. Anyways now it's time for picturesss!!!!!!!!