Splatfant

This next project I did was called: Splatfant... get it? We worked in photoshop once again, and used any animal we wanted and a pattern to put on top of the animal, and make it look like it's really there.  So I went with the elephant and splatter, and that's what it turned out to be. It was a pretty easy project but I think it looks pretty cool.

Frog Tongue

This was our second project on Photoshop, and it was interesting... We had to take a picture of a frog and put it on the tongue of the person in this picture.  It's not my best work, I liked doing the pancakes better and you can sorta see the line where I attached the frog to the tongue, but it's the best I could do.  So we attached the frog, and then we used the copy brush thing to make the frog look like a tongue.  And we added a shadow and did some other things as well. But it's pretty cool!

Angry Pancakes

It is my sophmore year of high school now, and this year, instead of being in art class, I'm taking Computer Art and Animation.  This was our first project, and we used photoshop to make these pancakes look angry... 

First, what we did was we took the pancake picture, and spread the pancakes out until there was a big.. hole thing in the middle.  Then we took this picture of a fish, and cropped, so we would only have the mouth on that layer. Then we made it fit and look good on the pancakes, and we did a few other things to touch it up.

I think this was a pretty good first project!

Light Project

In class, we spent a few days "light painting".  Most people reading this probably don't know what that is, so I will explain it.  We basically turned the lights off, and videoed ourselves waving around glow sticks and mini flashlight things.  The video was then compiled into one picture, so that it shows the things we drew with the light.
My group created Zeus with light.  We had someone model as Zeus, I created the lightning bolt with a yellow glow stick, and then we had a green leaf crown and a white outline of the whole body, because he is supposed to kind of glow.
I think this project was really cool, and we got to play around with a lot of things, and learn how do paint a different way.  It was also really fun :)

Painting

    

This part of art, painting, is one that I really like.  We learned about colors, how to mix them and the color wheel and things like that.  And then we learned how to draw clouds and trees, both of which I used in my large canvas painting.  We first went to the lab to pick out references, and printed out possible things that we would like to paint, but it had to be a landscape, or scenery.This was my reference, or the thing that I chose to paint:

Here is me in the process of trying to creating my landscape, which is Schwarzsee, Switzerland, a beautiful place with tons of mountains like the ones in the picture.  I picked this picture because I thought it would end up looking like a really pretty painting, and also because I LOVE Switzerland. (for some odd reason, I have no idea what it is...)

I started out doing the sky, and then the clouds, which is one of the things I'm proud of.  I then started on the mountains and got the basic color and shape of it, along with the lake.  That's pretty much what the picture above is.

The picture below is me finishing up the painting, and I added trees in the mountains and added lighting and reflection to the water.

And then finally, the picture below is my finished piece.   I am pretty proud of this, and I think I have improved a lot.  I worked hard and it paid off.  And I added a boat :)

Clay and Sculpting

In our library, we are fortunate enough to have a class set of iPads that we are allowed to use for our art class.  There is an app called "123d sculpt" and you can use it to sculpt and make something out of clay on the app.  This is sometimes used for models of something artists are actually going to make, or it can just be used for fun.  We used these iPads and made a model of an actual clay sculpture we were going to make.

This is the model I made, and it is sort of supposed to be like an alien type of thing.  But it has a mustache.

This is the actual clay model I made, but it is different than the model on the iPad because I decided I wanted to do something different.  This is a teddy bear, and if you didn't notice, it has a bow tie  which is probably the most important part of the whole thing.

The bear is hollow, but it has little balls inside, so that when it goes into the kilt and hardens, we can shake it and it will be a rattle thing.  I really like clay, so this was a fun subject for me :)

Mud and Zentangles!

For this unit, which included using mud, and creating zentangles, we did a few projects.  First, we played a little bit with the mud, to get used to the feel and to get ready for up coming projects.  To do this, we went outside our art trailer and painted the sidewalk how ever we like.

Zohara and I decided to paint my shadow!

We used different colored mud to give it a sort of feathery feel to it.

After doing this, we then experimented with colored mud, and painted the sidewalk, but we decided to be a little more creative with it so we painted these large rocks next to our classroom.  And they were also zentangles so they looked really cool.

(Zentangles are basically a bunch of crazy lines and shapes that make a big mess of patterns.)

After practicing the zentangles and working with the mud, we moved to our school's courtyard and painted the walls.

First, we started out painting the outline of my body, to make the shape of the first part of our zentangle.

We then painted inside of it, and created a zentangle.  But, that wasn't enough because we had to paint the whole entire wall that we picked, (which just so happened to be a very large one) so we continued on the outside.  We ended up filling in most of the wall, and making a pretty cool zentangle :)