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PART......... IThere are four parts to the art criticism process linked on Mrs. Sudkamp's weebly. They are in order as listed below.
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Usually I don't explain my work, but for this one I was kind of scared you would think it was incomplete. The picture kind of makes it look like its not done, but rather, its supposed to mean from our mind we have ideas and ideas are never fully developed, if that makes any sense. Like, we can have the idea for the wheel and think it through so that it works, but its not complete until we make it. And even after that new minds will continue to explore new purposes for old things we have created. That was kind of what I was going for. I'm not sure if you can see that or not.
1 Point Perspective
How does this piece emphasize 'line'?You can see the theme of 'line' in the way the trees are constructed. I really wanted them to have a scratchy, or choppy, texture to carry 'line'. I also cut in straight lines so the fur would print as small, spaced lines. Along with the fur and the trees, I tried to give the clouds an edgy feel. Lastly, I used the curved line of the moon to guide the attention of the viewer. The emptiness of the moon often catches a person's eye. They then follow its curve around into the trees which bring it up to the wolf. (Hopefully, at least, that was what I was going for).
What do I plan to do?Since my piece is finally out of the kiln, I plan to use an acrylic dark brown on the boarders for the dirt and the wood. Im going to paint the water on the sides and melt glass on the lid surrounding the lilypad. Im also going to paint the planks aroynd the edges a deep green and i havent figured out what im going to do with the moon yet. What has been difficult so far?The biggest source of difficulty so far has been rolling the slabs and shaping the box. Everytime i would go to connect the next panel, I struggled to hid the seem and then all the borders became bumpy. Making the flower, surprisingly, was the easiest part. Once I made the slab the thickness I desired, I simply cut tear-drop shapes and bent them around my thumb to give them the angle I liked. I started by rolling slabs on the slab roller, and cut out a 4x4 square using a template I had made from printer paper. I then shaped the box by scratching and slipping to adhere the panels and shape the square. I rolled a few more slabs so I could add details like the flower, plants, and the triangle supports. I carved into the box with the needle tool to design the background. (Water, Moon, Swan...). When I was happy with my greenware box, I set it out, ready to go into the kiln and come out as bisqueware.
Originally, I was going to make my piece with sketching pencils as it has a music theme and music is black and white. However, I really enjoyed using the Prismacolors for the sphere and Mrs. Sudkamp suggested I make this piece with them, so that's what I did. I took the mythical bird, the phoenix and standard musical notation. Explain your process from start to finish.I started by sketching the bird out in the same style that we made our gesture drawings. I then sampled the colors and wrote down the numbers so I could get them again. I started the piece on drawing paper by lightly sketching the phoenix and planning where the layers of fire would blend. I then started with a light layer of the yellow everywhere and continued outward. I would color the whole portion of fire with the lightest color and then slowly pull back from the middle as I added more layers of darker colors, between every layer going back over with the lighter colors. I repeated this until I built up and had blended the colors the way I wanted. I then finished it off by putting a line of dark purple/brown around the edge of the flames to make it stand out and I added the music notes with the dark reds. |
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