The theme for our locker was "beach vacation" so we decided to make it a beached theme locker. Lauren and I both love the beach so that was our main inspiration with our locker and we thought we could put a lot of effort into it. It was hard working in a small space such as the locker with dealing with proportions but we just tried to take everything that we wanted to incorporate and made it on a smaller scale. In our beach themed locker we used sharpie, construction paper, sand, and real life materials (barbie and shells). Lauren and I both really enjoyed working on this project.
My mentor is Ottilie Malesky. We talked about the different mediums we liked to use in our pieces and our favorite pieces of each other's art on the blogs. Their blog link is:
ottilie-apex-2016.weebly.com. I found most interesting about Ottilie is that she chose art because she hates sports and she realized that she really likes art but she doesn't like being told what to make.
When we were assigned this project we were told to go on the "Art Of Apex Portal" and find any type of inspiration for our piece. When we did the mini lesson of watercolor I didn't feel like I got much experience with it so I wanted to try it again for this piece. I wasn't inspired by just one thing on the portal because I ended up using colored pencils, salt, watercolor, and acrylic paint in my piece. This piece is similar to the inspiration that I got from the portal because I used different techniques with each of the mediums and I made it my own by using many different mediums and testing how they worked together in my final piece. I found that using many different mediums and techniques made my piece unique, but in a future piece I may try blending the colors more or trying different mediums. http://artofapexportal.weebly.com/For the pick two blog post I decided to do my clay pig and my stencil. We were assigned to make a clay fish but I thought I would be able to put more details and hard work into an animal which I really enjoy, which is why I made a clay pig. With making the clay pig it was hard to align all four legs to be equal, so to fix this I put a piece of paper under the body and aligned the legs by using the piece of paper, because the paper will burn away at the end. To make this clay animal, I first decided which animal I wanted to create, then I molded the clay into the animal, fired it, and then covered it with glaze. For the stencil piece I decided to do a fish because I felt like the scales would have came out cool through the spray paint. It was very difficult to cut out each scale so to overcome it I just made smaller shapes to cut out inside the scales. To make this stencil I traced the picture, cut out all interior lines, and then spray painted it.
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