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. :)