Clay Art!

Over the past while. My class has been working with Clay on and off, building whatever comes to mind and whatever we like, NOW this is my 3rd or 4th time trying this and this time it FINALLY worked and it looked the way I wanted it too! :) this took me about 2 weeks to shape, carve and paint! What I did was I took a big slab of clay and i shaped it into this metal pie plate thing. Than i dropped it from about eye distance off the ground and it would take shape of the plate. Th i would carve out my words and designs and than i CAREFULLY removed the clay from the plate and let it dry so i could paint it and this was my end result! :) i am very satisfied! Let me know what you think!! Thanks :)

Spray paint Art!

This is completely off-topic and not related to ANYTHING were doing in class but I found this video online a couple weeks ago and I have been meaning to show it to my class and when I did they were all soo amazed on how it looked and how it turned out and how the people did it! These two people in New York did Spray Paint art on a canvas in 5 minutes, of the city around them and it was amazing! I had to show you guys too...

This girls work was sooo amazing! I watched this video like 10 times now and I still can't get over it! :O

This guys Art was also sooo amazing I loved how both of them did it! :) it was sooo cool and different, I', considering spray painting more often and trying to develop the skills to do something like that :)
Tell me what you guys think! thanks

Paper Making!

For art we had to make Paper from scratch, We ripped up used paper and put it in a blender and we were allowed to add anything else we might want to make it look cooler, I put different colored papers and parsley spices and some sparkles to make it have a cool kind of look to it, I did that for a couple pieces of paper, I made 7 sheets of home made paper and I was very satisfied with how they turned out! :)

At first I was having some troubles with how I should Bind them together and make them look good, i wanted to make them into a book basically. I ended up using a hole punch and tying ribbon through them to keep them all together and it looked pretty good! 

I did also help two of the Special Needs students Howard and Roy make some paper of their own, I wasn't sure if I'd have permission to post any of the pictures I was in with them during the process so none of the picture will be added but their papers also turned out so good and I am glad to have been a part of helping them make some cool pieces of paper! :)

Yesterday for Art we saw an empty Hornets nest outside that looked pretty cool so me and Mrs.Rose thought it would be cool to make that into paper as well and it turned out like this:

The second attempt ended up failing because we added too many sticks but the end results looked good! Tell me what you think! :) Thanks

Clay Art Project!

For Art we started working with clay and we could make anything we wanted! As long as it was appropriate for school!! I chose to make a deep dish plate. Simple enough right? NOT EVEN CLOSE! -_-  making it and cleaning it and designing it while it was fresh clay was no problem at all. It was actually fun! The part where i tried to let it dry was a pain in my butt!! The clay cracked every single time. All over. There was no fixing it. I did it twice and i gave up. But i did take pictures. The design basically describes what goes on in my head all the time... teenage drama, heartbreak, confusion, hurt, etc... it just made sense. Hope you guys like it! Comment and tell me what you think. Thanks! :)

StoryAbout Me Project!

For our Story Art Project we had to basically do whatever we wanted that told a story about our lives or an important event and for me, that important event would be the birth of my Niece and Nephew :) so much has happened since the birth of my Niece Gabriella Elise MacDonald :) i babysit her 8 hours a day twice a week while my sister works and shes the most important person to me (: she is 9 months old now and tells you stories like you wouldnt believe :) aha! && and my Nephew is Jaiden Jamie Quinn he is only about a month or not even and he snores like an old man and always barks at me through the phone aha. They are my life and the most important people to ever come into my life and I couldnt be happier :)
Hope you like it! 

Final Culminating Final Blogpost!

I have finally finished my Final Culminating for my Art class!! Its all done. Im soo happy with how it turned out, It is for sure mot the nest art project I have done but I do believe its worth it (: it took me a long time because I spent most of my calss time throwing around Ideas && seeing what I liked best but my end results are worth it to me, It really desvribed about what Art means to me. How I choose to express myself, Art is the ome thing I am best at and that I know I can excell in to my best extent and I habe had a great semester with it! :) let me know what you think.  Thanks! :)

Final Culminating!

Aha sorry but I have changed my mind.  I am still doing a Collage but it is on a Camvas now! And you guys can see it aha!!  But Canvas painting is honestly one of my most favorite things in the world to do when I am upset. But I do like how it looks so far. I am glad I changed my mind. I am proud about how mt Art Skills are improving and I am so happy that I have put so much dedication into Art in the past couple years! :)  I love art and it is my life! :D
It took a while to work on the boarder of my Canvas but I am glad of what it turned out as and your opinions would mean alot!:)
Let me know what you think!!

Final Culminating- Second Post

Okay well I am about almost halfway through my Art Project, I have come to the final decision that I am going to do a Collage for my Culminating Activity,

I won't be posting any pictures until i am basically done the project because I want my FINAL POST to be where you see what it looks like, I will be taking pictures of it as I go alone but none of them will be posted until the very end, so that my progress of how i did is shown! :) I have been in kind of a rush to get some stuff on it done lately because for the past couple days I have had the flu so I havent had much time to work on it being in bed sick, in pain but tonight I have put in alot of effort into it,

What my Collage consists of is basically EVERYTHING that makes up me as a person, what the assignment wants me to do, it's about expressing myself and showing through drawings and pictures and words, what makes me who I am and honestly, this has got to be my FAVORITE project because Art is expressing you as a person, given a pencil, paper or a paint brush or ANYTHING you want to use basically and the only instructions are "Go at it, write about it, well see what the end results are"  that is my FAVORITE rule in Art, your making your piece of work YOUR OWN and given the chance to really do something GREAT with it and even if somebody doesn't like what you did, at least YOU like what you did and you are proud of what you came up with and that's all that really should matter, Yours thoughts on your work, and if your not fully happy with the end results, than it could be based on "What can I do to make it better next time?"

When me and Mrs.Rose were talking about everything and kinda thinking about what I could do for my Final Culminating before I came up with it, we were throwing around A lot of ideas, talking about what she said I was best at because she does think that I have a real skill in Print Making, T-Shirt or Lino Cut because all of my attempts with both have actually turned out really well! :) I am proud of my results with both because I NEVER would have guessed that one of my biggest skills, would be in Printing! but it is a really fun activity to do and I like it :) Printing is something that Mrs.Rose wanted me to do for my Final Culminating and I was considering it at first but I could not seem to come up with a good enough/cool Design for me to do that I would be really proud of myself for doing in the end, so I ended up doing a Collage instead but I have a feeling that my Collage is going to turn out well and I will be proud of it, I am proud of my work so far! :)

So yeah, this is my second step for my blog posts about my final project, I hope that you all liked this post, I will keep my blog up to date as much as I can and hopefully by the end when I post my end results, it will be better than you expected :)
Thanks!

Self-Portrait!

For my Art class we are doing Self-Portrait's and at first everyone was talking about how it was about looking at yourself in a Mirror basically and trying to draw yourself, getting all the features and shading that you have but at first for me, that wasn't a good idea because I can't look at myself in a Mirror and draw myself, getting all of the features I have, I am good at Art but I can't do that no matter how hard that I try, so I have decided to maybe do a Collage..
Normally blogs are all about describing your ideas for your Art and telling your plans but, I really have NO idea what I am doing at all! It's kind of a "Wing-It" process for me when it comes to Art and it normally turns out well, I normally do good with it so that's what I plan to do.

Questions that I have to answer:

1&2
What are your first thoughts about your project?
-Well, I do not have any plans or thoughts about it, i'm gonna go with something at the top of my head that sounds decent enough and basically see if it all works out.
Do you have any concerns?
-In Art you are ALWAYS going to have Concerns, Will it turn out good? Will I mess it up? What if it doesn't look anywhere close to what I thought by the end? What if nobody accepts it? What if someone makes one 10 times better than mine? ...... These thoughts run through the Average persons mind 24/7 and the truth is, Yes, Someone is going to make on better than yours, it might not look as good as you thought, you could mess it up a bit,  NOBODY is perfect, the effort and imagination that you put into the Art is what makes it PERFECT! don't worry about what other peoples might look like, its all about you, that's what you have to worry about, what YOU like about it. Not what other people like about it.
Are there materials or techniques that might appeal to you?
-I like Paint, Random Objects, Pictures, Colors, Stickers,  anything that will basically fill a Collage and make it look messy and unorganized but nice at the same time, its Messy, its Disorganization, its Colorful and it's YOU!
These are the kinds of Art Collages that appeal to me:
1.

2.

The Second one has to be my most FAVORITE because I have ALWAYS been a sucker for Skulls, but also because in this Collage there is NO repeats, Nothing is the same, nothing matches anything, it's different, it's out there, it's basically what that one person loved wrapped up into one AWESOME Collage,  this .... This is my definition of Art right there....



Alriight, well that is my Blog about my process so far because I JUST started today, I will keep on updating as I move forward! :) Thank you!

Lino Cutting!

For my Lino Cutting project. I had chose to do this cool Flower Pattern I had found on my Computer and I had transferred it into Woodland Art and thought thag It was really cool! This basically my progress of my Art Project
My Sketch:
My Lino Cut:
My Steps:
& My Final Printing!:

I was actually really happy with how the Lino cut had turned out because alot of people thought it was waay too detailed and it wouldnt work out but I made it work and im proud! :)
It took me a couple tries because the ink would like not stick good or it would get in the lines. So it took about 4 tries but the end results were worth it! :)
Hope you like it! :)