Main Architectural Features!

For my group, we didn't get the chance to make our gingerbread cathedral so i am going to talk about all of the features of the cathedral:
- Pointed Arches
- Rose Windows
- Flying Buttresses
- Gargoyles
- Tympanum

Pointed Arches- The Pointed Arch is considered one of the defining characteristics of medieval churches constructed in the Gothic Style, similar arches were used in Middle Eastern architecture hundreds of years before they employed in Western Europe. Pointed Arches were used to direct weight onto load-bearing columns at a sharp angle, Thus allowing for much taller vaulted ceilings.

Rose Windows- A large circular window, usually glazed with stained glass, having stone tracery radiating from the center, often with intricate petal-like patterns.

Flying Buttresses- An arched masonry support serving to bear thrust, as from a roof or vault, away from a main structure to an outer pier or buttress.

Stained Glass Windows- In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

Tympanum- an architectural element located within the arch or pediment



Now, I didn't know what most of these words meant to be honest so I did look them up in the Urban Dictionary so all of this credit goes to that but yess I just basically explained what they are aha, the definition of them! :3 hope that was good enough

Gingerbread Gothic Cathedral! Sara, Brooke & Kendra

For a new project, we are in Groups of 2 and 3 or sometimes more, but for my group I am with Brooke Brizard, and Kendra Paul!

What we have decided to do for our Cathedral is we are going to use Gingerbread to make it because we all want to eat it after! aha :) but we are going to make ours pretty basic actually, We went online yesterday and found a couple of good ideas for our Gingerbread Cathedral 

Here they are:

The third one does look a little more complicated than the others but these are basically what we had in mind for out Cathedral, All of us girls were pretty worried about getting it to actually look nice and stay up and were also more concerned about decorating it afterwards but that has all been figured out! We should start working on it sometime this week or by Monday hopefully, We will make sure to post our results as we are making it :) 

Thank you :D

PrintScreen Project!

For my print screening project I have decided to do do something a little more different and detailed then I did last year,
This was my project from last year:

That is what I had chosen to do because for the summer I was planning on going to a concert over the summer by that band, the name of the band that had written that song is Black Veil Brides!
This Is Them, the lead singer is my favorite! <3

That is my favorite song which is why I made the T-Shirt with the name of the song on it :)
I had ended up going to the concert and the lead singer Andy Biersack did end up seeing my shirt which was awesome :) he didnt say anything bout it but it was still an honor to have him see it. ANYWAYS before I ramble on,.
This is the T-Shirt I choose to make this year:

It is a lot more detailed and stuff this year, I loved creating the vision of New York City and how it would look through the eye of an Artistic Eye :D I thought that that was really cool and is shows how passionate I am on getting every possible detail right when it comes to making something of my choice! and I think that I will be able to do this :) I hope I will be able to succeed at making this. I don't wanna ruin a picture that I spent almost 4 hours making at home straight to go to waste! so lets hope good things come out of this and see what happens! Wish me luck! :)
Comment what you think of my idea  thanks guys! :D

Project Process!

Okay I know I've been changing my mind ALOT lately about the Mosaic project and all! but I ended up doing a Stepping Stone that is all buttons! I think it looks really cool :) I just finished putting in the Cement today and it is now in the Kilm or however its spelt as we speak, it should be ready by tomorrow by the end of the day and I will post pictures of how it looks before i Grout it and everything and than I will post pictures of the complete end results when its all done :)

During the button adding process, The process of getting the buttons to stick to the paper was a little complicated because I guess I didn't cut it quite right so one end was a little too big so when I was half way through getting the buttons done, some parts started sticking up and wouldn't stay in place so that a little bit frustrating for me, But I did manage to get it good looking enough by the time I had added the cement.
During the cement process, that had to be the easiest part because well it took a little bit to get the cement to the right consistency and all but that was no problem :3

I did have fun with this project because there was no special pattern to my Stepping Stone, no neatness, no worry about perfection, just a big buttony messy mess. The way I like my art :) I like to make my Art as different and as weird as I possibly can because I don't like my art to look the same as everyone else's, I like to be different and for my art to really stick out! :) Appeal to someone, so my Stepping Stone is just a big mess of Small, Medium, Large buttons of all shapes and colors and I think its going to look cool :) I hope so. I'll keep you guys updated! <3

Mosaic Project Progress!

Okay well everybody remembers when I blogged about my Mosaic Idea and how I had everything planned out & how I had to change my first idea because people in my class had taken all of my supplies at the last minute and I had to change my plan to the Bottle thing.
Well I am in the process of doing the Bottle Project and it is NOT going as well as I had hoped it would go, I tried using the glue and putting some buttons and stained glass pieces on the bottle but they would not stay in place, the pieces kept falling off and it was just a TERRIBLE mess, so im not sure if i should keep trying to make the pieces stick to the bottle or if i should just try it on something else -___-
This process is VERY frustrating and hard to work with, i did not expect this.    Im hoping things will go well.

Mosaic Project! (NEW!)

As most of you remember, I was planning on doing something like this for my Mosaic Project:

But.... sadly, that did not work out like I had planned, I had spent a class with 6 different containers filled with 6 different colored beads, buttons and other things for the color sorting like int hat picture that I would have ended up doing, but the next day when I had come to class, some girls in my class had taken those containers and used those to finish their art project! -.-  was a VERY big let down so I had to end up changing my project.. :( So now what I plan on doing for it is THIS!:

I found this on Pintrest and i absolutely LOVED it!, I brought a glass bottle from home and I am going to cover that with these materials and give it a try! :3 I am VERYY excited to see how my end results turn out to be and how the entire process goes in general.   But yeah, this is my NEW Mosaic Art Project and I will keep everybody updated on how it goes! :)

Mosaic Project!

For my mosaic project, there were quite a few ideas on what to make, what materials to use, and how to use them and wear to place them to make them look neat etc.... For my first idea  I wanna take a stepping stone and make a pattern of colors over top of it using only colored beads. It'll look something like this:

This is for sure what I would like to try first! Its just so colorful and unique and messy and all over the place! all I need is some colored beads of these colors and i'm positive i can make this work! :)

My Pintrest Account: http://www.pinterest.com/xoxoxsarathomso/art/