The entirety of 2nd period has been entered in the Doodle4Google nation-wide contest. The theme was future innovatitions in technology, transportation, and renewable energy. Mind maps were required to be able to narrow down the best ideas to the best we could! Mine took a bit of thought.... I thought about how robots like Rover were racing around on Mars, collecting rocks, and how we could make it better, but I really didn't think it was unique. Robots are a thing of the future, and that one's a given. One of my most favouritetest things in the world are chickens! I love chickens so much!! And I thought I would take inspiration from Google Doodler Lydia Nichols and her cow burps doodle. There were articles on how people have made the egg whites full of medicine for those with a rare disease. But, I thought.... something more. Something that had to do with space travel. I also thought about how ocean fish population is declining rapidly due to overfishing. Then, when looking through more examples, I saw Melissa Crowton and her doodle of travelling animals. Then I thought.... space... travel... animals? Animals travelling to Mars! I was able to put all of my ideas together and wanted to doodle and research about space-travelling lizards!
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This has been one of my most Expressive pieces all semester emotionally. This was a gift for my significant other, based off of the giant elephant statue that's been passed dowm 2 generations so far. I built up from that, since it would work as both a birthday and holiday gift! My plan was to make two little elephant banks out of clay together. posing with elephant 1 At this point I was able to reflect my process of creating the elephant since the banks themselves were designed to me relatively simple, just pinchpot and balls of clay rolled out into different forms. finished piece of elephant one I finished elephant 1, stressing because I thought I wouldn't have enough time to finish the second. But plot twist, I engaged and persisted to do my blog post to finish them on blog post day!
Our prompt/assignment this time was to do styrogami. For this, I pretty much improvised. I had less time than usual to do it. However, I was slightly inspired by Jules Vitali's art. First, I started out with two smaller cups to make the neck and head. I was pretty much hotgluing everything. For this, I was Developing Craft. I was phazing through unknowingly how dense, stable, and reactive the styrofoam cups were. They were incredibly thin, and I needed how to figure out how to work around it. Adding legs to the creature What a mess!!! I took very few pictures, but I Solved Problems. How was I going to make it self standing? Will these legs work? I thought more and more about how I was going to be able to make it stand. And I did. I had made a long tail for my project, then painted it using my old tempera paints that I had mixed up for an unfinished project. For this I Envisioned, thinking about what goes where and how the seams were going to be covered up. I also had to think about the pedastal, too. I imagined what colors were going to be put onto it. The gluewash (Glue diluted with water) and the paper towels, too. |
Artist BioHello! I'm Kaya (Kai-yuh) and I've been drawing off and on for about 7 years! These are my products from my VMCCA Art studio 1 class! Archives
December 2016
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