Vending Joy Exhibit

So, we ended up covering the Vending Joy model with plastic necklaces and feathers and such. This references jingle trucks, as well as lent.

And we put it in the art building, with bottles glued onto bottom and floral decorations. We also spent a class hanging a smaller sculpture (made from chicken-wire scraps and leftover beading) above the Vending Joy box.

Throwback to First Semester

These are past projects that the class has done:

1. We learned how to tie complicated knots. This is the Clove Knot

This is the first project of the year. We had to use wood scraps and a jigsaw to make notches in the wood so that pieces fit together:

Here is the finished product:

As a side project, we were asked to draw something on a poster board, and then incorporate string to give the drawing a 3-D quality:

This was the first step of the armature project. We had to take pictures of our front and side profiles. Then glue the printout photos to panels notched wood. From there, we put the posterboard and wire. Then the papier-mâché:

Vending Joy

This is a new project. It is about using food from the vending machine and using the packaging and the food itself to create art. For instance, gluing pretzels together and making them into an interesting shape, and photocopying the packaging, and using the using the photocopy to make 3-D triangles and squares.

Here is what I have so far...this is an in-progress project... (I used gummy fruit snacks, pretzels, hot-glue, and elmer's glue)

And this is after two more weeks:

Mike Kelley-Influenced Sculpture Update

A recent class assignment was to draw the sculpture we made, the one in tribute to the artist Mike Kelley. I used watercolor markers as a medium, as well as black sharpie, my favorite drawing tool.
The results:

Armature Update

So, after putting those ridges on the armature with "poster board" material, and after covering it with wire, it was time to put the white papier-mâché-type-stuff onto it.

Now, it is painting time. And those pictures will be up later, because I am still in the process.

Tribute to Mike Kelley

Today in sculpture class, out teacher informed us of the death of artist Mike Kelley (pictured below).

(To read about him, go here)

So, as a tribute to him, our class project was to construct a sculpture using different kinds of strings and wires, as well as stuffed animals. This is because Kelley sued stuffed animals in his own artwork.
We did our project, which was not planned out a whit, in our school's arts building, using two stories.

Kelley's work:

 

Class Work:

Armature

Armature: Sculpture a framework to support the clay or other material used in modeling (Definition)

My armature, still in progress last time I posted about it...is still in progress. But here are more recent photos of it.

What we did was cut pieces of foam that fit the form of our profiles, then hot-glued them in, based on sharpie-drawn lines on our food-faces. Then, they pieces were trimmed more accurately, and chicken-wire was hot-glued onto the mold. Next, clay (that will be on the next post).

Malibu Beach Art

On November 15, I went with my sculpture class, the CAS Art (Crossroads Advanced Studies) class, and the Studio Art III class to Malibu beach for two hours of beach art.

While the CAS Art and Studio Art classes got paper and boards from their teachers and were given free rein to sketch what they wanted, wherever on the beach, my sculpture class had come off the bus armed with sculptures we had made in class.

We had used wood, plastic, styrofoam cups and bowls, bamboo, wire, rope, hot glue, and jigsaws to create out sculptures. Here's mine:

Then we painted them with concoctions of acrylic we had mixed to look sand-colored. After, we spray painted them with these cool spray paints that ranged from salt-and-pepper to dark brown, that were textured. They felt like sand after they had dried.

Then we mixed the sand-colored paint we had made with glue, and dabbed that on the sculptures. Then, the teacher presented us with a huge bag of store-bought sand, and we threw handfuls of that on the gluey sculptures.

Now, at the beach. Our mission was to photograph the pieces in an environment (the beach) that it would blend in/ look natural in.

Result: (of my piece)

It was a really fun day, and I really encourage this project :)