final culminating

so I completed my final culminating and here is the final result 

I put on 6 paintings I have done over the year along with 5 quotes , 2 thingss I like (Starbucks and David's tea) and 8 pictures of me, my friends , and my family , I chose most of my quotes from the band killers and incorporated them with watercolor and acrylic paint. I picked a variety of pictures to show all aspects of my life. and I chose some of my favourite paintings to show my skill in art. here are some close up pictures before I pinned it up on the corkboard 

I was very happy with the final result and felt it was a great representation of my life 

final culminating art

for my final art culminating I was asked to create a self portrait representation ,  I basically plan to pin a bunch of my previous art , quotes I like, lyrics I like , and pictures of me and my friends on a corkboard , I feel that this will be the best way to represent myself because it a variety of what I love , here is some of my brainstorming 

I want to test out transferring newspaper with water and white paint and puting a quote on it that represents me. I would also like to incorporate a map some how into my art because I would like to travel .  I really like art because it's unique and once you change it you can never restore it to original. this is why I plan on using some of my old pieces that I thought turned out really nicely. 

 I will post the final product sometime tomorrow , tonight I plan on finishing my quotes 

Lino print

I recently did a woodland art Lino print here are some pictures of my progress 

here is the final product , it took me about 5 days to finally finish 

I used the same tool all the way through to have the same cut lines 

I decided to do my print in blue because I thought it look vibrant , I did it kinda patchy to represent the leopard 

I was very happy with the final outcome 

print making

we spent a few days working in some glass printmaking. we didn't continue because most kids did not have much success with there prints. but I kind of liked how mine turned out . I did the same print twice , once enhancing the white and once enhancing the orange , then I ripped the more dominant looking one and placed it over the duller one to give a shadow effect. 

gothic cathedral pictures

gothic cathedral

so far we have the base of our cathedral done 

we are planning on decorating it over the next few days and hoping that it'll look something like this

we are going to be collecting our candy tonight so we will be able to start decorating by tomorrow . I'll keep posting pictures as we progress. 

Woodland art

the power point was very information.  it talked about norvels life and his art. It talked about his association with the group of seven and it showed differnt styles of woodland art.  it showed a piece of art that each one of the people in  the group of seven had painted, you could clearly see the differnt techniques being used. It showed how lines and color were important to woodland art, and the pantings were based after spiritual meanings.

this video diplays novels art.  it shows the meaning behind his pieces.

What made norvel more exeptional than other artists is the fact that he tried something new.  Novel took a differnt approach to art than most artists before him.  Norvel changed the way canadians veiw art. Novel struggled with alcohol, but dispite his difficulties he persevered and created brilliant masterpieces.

gothic catherdral finished

since i am typing on the computer i dont have any pictures, i will post a completed picture tonight.  Me and olivia tryed to re build the Leon actherdral, or atleast based it after it.  We used the typical gingerbrwad house as the base of our ctherdral and built off of that.  We included all the architpypal features we could think of which includes pointed arches, rose windows, flying butresses, stained glass windows, and a tiled ceining.  We unfortunatley could not thing of a way to have gargaoyles.  I felt that our project was successful.  It turned out pretty much exactly how we had wanted it to.  I wouldnt have changed anything because it stood strong and looked clean and neat at the end.  I enjoyed the individualty of this project and that it was different from anything else ive donre before.

print making

in class we had to design some prints that we wanted to put on a pice of material , I choose a Celtic knot to put on a scarf 

I put on the paint kind of piecey in stead of doing it all together 

this is what it looked like when I was cutting it out 

this is how I put on the paint aside from the typical way 

gothic cathedrals

the gothic cathedrals were so important because they symblolized power , wealth , and prestige.  the main architectural features are pointed arches, flying buttresses , large towers and spears , pillars , stones , and stained glass.  the cathedrals had to be filled with light because that made it possible for the people to see. the cathedrals and designs were very important to the people in this time because they brought the people a sence of pride. 

calligraphy

I've been doing a little bit of calligraphy in art class , the first picture is my experiments just to see how different lines look 

the next picture is what I did the next day where I tryed doing a few letters of the alphabet 

print making

now we are making some t shirt prints I want to put this design in the front of my shirt 

and this one along the bottom

shading

we had a group project recently , we're we all took a peice of a picture of 'where's Johnny' fri the shining I think it was. I took the peice of the nose for my shaded piece , here is the final product.

the project was a little messed up because everyone had different margins on there printed version of the picture. so the pictures don't match up exactly. 

 

shading

we've been working on shading in class that's going to lead up to a bigger project , so far I have done a shading chart

and a fist punching out ward

to practice our techniques for the bigger project we are working on 

stepping stone

I didn't do the third light switch yet but I decided to try doing a stepping stone in the mean time. I did a crescent part of the moon in white and clear smashed stained glass and I used really deep blues and purples and blacks for the night sky. I also left a blank circle in the middle because I wanted to put some lyrics I like in it. I put the lyrics 'is there still magic in the midnight sun or did you leave it back to '61 in the cadence of a young mans eyes' and I had wanted to put the rest of it that said 'out where the dreams all hide' I got this song quote from the song dustland fairytale by the killers. 

mosaic

I didn't like how the element movaic was turning out so I popped all the materials off the light switches and started over. I am doing different materials now. like for one I have shattered glass

for another I did stained glass

and for one I used tile 

I'm thinking for the final light switch ill use shells. I'm planning on bringing some in tomorrow to try it out.  

my mosaic

my idea for my mosaic is to do a series of four light switch covers and make then look like the four elements; water, fire , air , and earth. I am trying to brainstorm some possible ideas for what materials I could use for each light switch cover , I will do a blog post regarding each one of the elements and the ideas I have already come up with for the materials , if anyone has any suggestions for possible materials feel free to comment them below. :) 

dot day

there's this international day called 'dot day' our art class is participating in dot day and we are creating a mural that demonstrates dots and our creative abilities. each one of the people in our art class has there own little square to decorate and do our own circle design in. there are many great ideas in our class. I choose to do the round colorful part of the eyeball , I am hoping to come up with another idea and try something else tomorrow , if anyone has anymore ideas of what I could do with a circle please feel free to comment:) but for now here's my eyeball 

mosaic

we are soon going to be working with mosaics in class , a mosaic is a picture or some type of pattern made by arranging small colorful pieces of a hard material together to create a greater image. mosaics have been created and use for thousands of years. the purpose of mosaics varies on the religious beliefs of whom ever created the mosaic or what period of time they came from. some mosaics were created for interior decoration , some were also just created because the creator wanted to make a work of art , and finally some were made to display some sort of cultural or spiritual significance. 

http://www.pinterest.com/hannadahl17/mosaic/

scrapbook

in art class we were asked to create our idea of a scrapbook. my idea of a scrapbook is to express yourself. I think that in the ideal art scrapbook there should be an eye catching cover page 

there should also be something showing colors because I think colors are an ideal part of art, to demonstrate the colors in my art scrapbook I used nail polish colors because I also think that nails art is a part of art and a way to express yourself that isn't so extravagant

I put a page with a few pictures of me and my friends on one of the pages because I think it's essential to have a little bit of yourself in the ideal art sketch book

my next four pages I used to demonstrate four different materials that can be used in art 

I choose watercolor , acrylic , pastels , and pencil because they are my favourite art tools so far. 

and last but not least a back cover that compliments the front cover 

this is my idea for an ideal art scrapbook , if anyone has and ideas they think could improve my book please feel free to comment below