Land Art

In this piece, I worked with two other students and I wasn't really sure whether or not we should do something as original as a smiley face, but I realized that original can be good sometimes. Especially when working with the land, we used things that we haven't really worked with before.  I've never made a piece of art using the land, but it worked out pretty well. I'm not familiar with this material so I definitely gained some experience with this.  Even though I'm not familiar with it, I definitely closed in on land art. 

Sculpture

While I was making a Winnie the Pooh tile, it exploded and cracked in the kiln and I had to make with what I had so I smashed the whole tile.  I mixed it with thus sculptamold stuff and made brownies out of it. I meant for this artwork to say that we can make mistakes and still make something good out of it. The issue I had was crushing the peices small enough so that I could make the brownies. I just always want people to know, literal or figuratively, that mistakes are made and things can go wrong but no matter what you can always create something good out of the bad. That's why Yin-Yang exists.

Journaling

My topic for my journal was the word Sleep.  I took all the basic items and colors you would think of when you hear sleep and I made a collaged bedroom. I gained skill with journaling because Ive done it once before, but didn't really understand how to do it.  Now I know you cant just put a bunch of pictures together and call it a journal.

Portrait of a Friend

For this project, I wasn't sure if I should make a cartoon-ish portrait or a real portrait.  I was starting to run out of time by the end of class so I thought, the easiest thing to do would be to draw a quick portrait of my friend in a cartoon way like they do at the fair!

My technique was so just draw whatever comes to mind and never erase it.  I thought it was a good way so show how my brain is thinking instead of what I am thinking myself.  I'm so used to drawing something that I thought of for a long time so I just decided to draw whatever comes to mind first.

Frieda Anderson

Frieda Anderson is an artist from Corinth, MS.  Her work is machine quilted and nature inspired. Every day she walks in her woods near her home with her dog George.  She gets her ideas from walking there. She discovered hand dyeing fabric 20 years ago, and she now works almost exclusively with her own hand dyed cotton and silks that are used in her quilts. She has been teaching since 2000 and made her first quilt in high school.  She doesn't have a certain style, but she does almost always make quilts with nature on them.  Frieda has over 30 exhibits, but she does sell her quilts on her website and gives tips on her blog.  I picked her because she just seemed simple and sweet.  Her work is really colorful and unique.

New York City Skyline Silhouette

I was born in New York so I took the "Where I'm From" category and just took where I actually came from and drew the first thing that came to my mind.  That's how I came up with the idea
The only thing I took from a source was a picture of the silhouette and I made it so that it was my own version of the skyline.  I also folded the skyline in half so that it was in a perspective instead of being just flat.
I should have taken the tops of the buildings and the outline of the doors and windows and just highlighted it with white chalk.  Even though I didn't do that, that's probably what I learned.
I've always had a hard time with trying to make sunsets with chalk, but this time I just went with it and I got better at making the sunsets.  They're still not what I want them to be, but for right now it's good enough.

The False Mirror

70 Million Art Project

Original Image

recreated by Emry Schneeweis, Conner Cunningham, Taylor Bever, and Samantha Galvin

In French, this piece of art is called Le Faux Miroir and is painted on a 54 x 80.9 oil canvas by Rene Magritte.  He was a surrealist painter born in 1898 and constantly painted disturbing images.  He probably did this because his mother committed suicide when he was young and he had pancreatic cancer.  Surrealism is a movement from the early 1920s and implies going just beyond realism.  Artists take realistic situations and made a hallucinatory scene that defied common sense.  Everyone in my group worked on actually making a board with cardboard clouds and we all worked together to make the board blue and the clouds white with paint so we didn't separate and do our own thing.  If I did this again, I would find a better board for our sky because it wasn't quite tall enough and I would definitely find a board that was a little thinner.  and maybe work on the clouds a little more to actually make them look like clouds.