Review of Art Exhibition

On the 9th of December, we put up our first exhibition. All the year 9's who take Art GCSE had to participate in this event, by making a piece of recycled art. We used different recycled items like bandages, tin cans, glass and even clothes.

This was my piece:

Work from other people:

Made out of cassette tape.

Made out of old magazines and tissue paper.

Made out of greenery.

Made out of tissue paper and buttons.

Made out of tin can tops, CD'S and sweet wrappers.

My overall favourite piece is:

Exhibition Piece

In class, we had to make our exhibition piece for the exhibition for everybody to see.
We had approximately 3 weeks to make it. For my piece, I decided to have a cardboard
box, with birds coming out of a book inside the box.

I was inspired to do my exhibition piece, as our teacher gave us a website- http://www.funforever.net/archives/dont-try-this-at-home/
This was the picture that inspired me, I could not find the artist though-

I made this because I liked the idea of butterflies flying out of the book.
I think because of the butterflies, this piece reminded me of peace.
So for my piece, I decided to make it quite peaceful, so I made the background
blue which reminds me of peace.

But, for my piece, I didn't do exactly the same as the artist.
Instead of butterflies, I made cranes/birds coming out of the book using
the pages of the old book I got from Oxfam books.
Also, instead of leaving the background plain, I decided to collage it blue
using magazines etc.

This was my final outcome:

To make this, all I really needed was pieces of magazine, a cardboard box, a book and some string.
I made the background by using small pieces of blue from the magazine and stuck it down on the box, on all the sides. Once that was dry, I ripped a few pages from the back of the book, and made it into cranes. I searched on google to see how to make the cranes. I attached the crane to somes string, and stuck it on the inside of the box. I placed some of the cranes facing upwards, so it looked like they were coming out of the book. I also ripped some parts of the middle of the book, to look the like the cranes had just ripped out of the page.

Overall, I am quite pleased with my exhibition piece as I put quite alot of effort into collaging the background. I also like the way I made the cranes out of the book. However, I know I already spent alot of time collaging the background, but It was quite scruffy as parts of it were sticking out- so next time, I just add more glue to it, to make it look  more smooth.

Recycled Flower Power.

Equipment and Materials:

-A sheet of magazine, thin strips of carboard, masking tape, scissors and pen/pencil.

Method/steps:

- With the sheet of magazine, roll it up as thin and tight as you can then secure it with some masking tape.
- Then, to make the flower part, take one of the carboard strips and roll it up, using a pencil if you want.
- You should then make a spiral shape. Do this again with the other strips of carboard experimenting the different ways of doing it.
- Once you have done that, at the end of the spiral shape, make the end thin and sharp like a 'V' shape. Then inject it into the sheet of magazine- so it looks like a flower.
- Finally, to make sure its strong and secure, add some carboard and masking take around the area of the top of the magazine (where the spirals are placed).

Bottle Slumping- Clay demo.

Equipment and Materials needed:

- Mat, rolling pin, knife, fork, waterpot, and Clay (plastic consistency).

Method/Steps:

- Cover your bottle in paper towels using masking tape.
- When you recieve the clay, flatten it using the bottom of your hand and make sure you do it evenly. Afterthat, you can use a rolling pin to make it longer.
- Make sure it is the right size for the bottle, if it isn't do it again to make sure its the right size.
- Then, trim the edges for a smoother and better result.
- After wards place the bottle onto the clay slowly, to make the shape of it.
- Afterwards, using the spare clay, roll 2 balls, and put them on the bottom of the wine bottle, to keep it well balanced and still.
- Then cross hatch 4 areas on the back of the clay.
- Using 4 small rolled up clay balls, then place it on the cross hatched areas.
- To make the balls stick on better you can dab a bit of water on the clay to make it stickier. This is called clay slip. Clay slip is the glue of it- but we are using water.
- Finally, leave it to go bone dry.

(When you have done all that, put it in the kiln at 1100'c).

Relief Form



A Relief Form piece of work by Cara Barer.



 

In class, we had to produce a piece of Relief Form work. Our work had been inspired by an artist named Cara Barer, who had produced many types of creative and imaginative Relief forms. Cara would make this by dampening the pages, and she would start curling them around. Sometimes she would paint or dye the page, to produce a bolder colour. Cara Barer had founded this idea as one day when it was raining, she saw yellow pages (which is rather thick) outside being drenched. She saw that it had formed into bent pages.

And so In class, we decided to make something similar to what Cara Barer did. So we were given a cut out piece of magazine, glue and loads of paperclips. Unlike Cara, we did not have to dampen our magazine. We had just curled it, then kept it in place by using a paperclip. In the end, when we had finished the whole way around, we could start glueing the parts together for our end product.





                

Side view of my Relief Form work.



Full view of my Relief Form work.





Overall, I think my final piece went quite well, as I could curl and make different shapes in my work. However, next time, if I could, I would dye my magazine like Cara did, to make it look bolder.

:)

3D Projecting Form

A few weeks ago, we had made 2D flip art. And so now, we have started to make
3D work on books. Our teacher had given us some examples of 3D projecting forms,
to give us some inspiration. Here were the pictures our teacher had given us to see:

We, ourselves, were given a book to work on, it didn't really matter what book,
but as long as it had a title to respond to. Some people may have been given very
weird books that could be hard, but we all still had to make some 3D art. Everyone
had to look at the title and the blurb of the book to decide what to create.

This is the title of my book:

Once I had saw the title of my book, I had decided to do something with test tubes- as it had something to do with medicine. After I had thought what I wanted to do, I decided that my original idea was rather plain, so I thought it would look good, if it looked like it was exploding. To make it 3D, I scrunched a whole load of newspaper into a ball and made it quite stiff and hard. After that, I ripped some pages out of the back of my book and stuck it on the newspaper. As i decided to make it look like it was exploding,I added some pieces of paper at the top to make it look like it was going to explode.

<--- This was the first try.

<-- This was my final product.

I am happy with my final outcome, as the aim was to make 3D , which I did. And I managed to make it more interesting as instead of just making a test tube, I made it an exploding test tube.




Next time to make it look better, instead of just making one exploding test tube, next to it (on the other page) I could have made a bunsen burner or another test tube. Also, I don't think that what I have made is very obvious.

2D Flip Art.

On our project of recycling, we have started some work on 2d flip art, where we are given a random book, to make some 2d art out of. The 2d art we make should have a link between the title of the story. To make the book stronger, we stuck some pages together, then we drew onto the book what we wanted to flip out. As simple as it seems, all we had to do, was using a special sharp knife, we had to cut out our 2d shape, and just flip it out.

This is the book that I am using (its called People and Organizations).

There wasn't much to create out of this title. So I looked at the blurb, but that didn't really help much either.




This was my plan (You can't see it very well):

This was my plan that I had set out to explore my ideas.




In this next picture, I drew out what I wanted to flip out:

In the end, I had decided to made 2D flip art of 2 men and a house, as it does have something to do with the title ... 'People and organisations.''





After I drew it on, I cut some of it out, so it could flip up:

I found my final outcome OK, but I know I could have done better. However, I am happy that I have made a 2D flip art piece. Unfortunately, I could not make it up to a very good standard, like other artists.