Art Update!

Ok I finally got pictures of everything I have been working on in my art classes so now you can see it with explanation. Ok this is my most recent fresco! I love how it turned out, mainly because of the color and blending. The paints happened to work out exactly the way I wanted them to and it was so much more natural to paint. Mario even complimented my painting and told me he could tell the paint worked better for me this time. Sadly my camera wouldn'tpick up some of the purples that I used in this painting but I am very happy with it!



This next painting is the second fresco I did. I am not happy with this one at all... This was the frustrating fresco where Mario was painting on my piece and I ended up feeling like punching people at the end of class. He told me I over worked the paint and I guess he is probably right but I still get to touch it up so hopefully that will help pull my faces out of the mud. Bleh, anyways I apologize Momma for ruining this picture :( I tried though haha.

These are pictures of the middle step that my third fresco is in. Once you finish the tile, you use a certain type of glue to glue on a cheese cloth. then your ip the cheese cloth off the tile. This is that stage when it's only on a cheese cloth.

 This is my fifth fresco to be :) Its from a picture I took of a baby cow in the snow over spring break this year.

 In Jewelry we have been learning how to solder so that we can make rings and we finally got to make a practice one before we start on the silver for our real project. So this is my first practice ring made out of brass! So basically it went from a flat strip of metal to a convex ring :) I love it even though it is a little too big for me.

 This is the batik I have been working on for a while. I have dipped this four times now but when the picture was taken only three. The keys are at their final color but I dipped in a cobalt blue in order to change the color of the background to a navy.

These three pictures are all of my shabourie pole wrapping scarf. So basically, how I made this was I taped a corner of the white scarf on to the top of a piece of thick pipe. Then I tied a very thin rope in a knot at the top. I would wrap the rope around three times, twist the fabric to one side and then scrunch the ropes upward. I did this all the way to the bottom of the scarf with a string that had been dyed a darker shade of pink. Then I dyed it a light shade of purple. The more 3D looking fabric is what it looked like immediately after I took it off the pipe. The other two pictures are after I ironed the scarf out. I was thinking about doing graphics over the top but I like how organic it looks right now so I am going to leave it!