Over the weekend....

I am getting really excited about this project.  I built my box this weekend and got it through the first firing.  Currently it is in the 2nd firing process (in the kiln).

Just before being fired first.

Added color using glaze pastels

I put a clear glaze over the entire piece so that I can apply decals next.  I'm really looking forward to the final piece. 

in class progress

I was able to take the photo into photoshop and illustrator and make it into vectors.  I think that I want the figures to look similar to street art themselves.  I might add a back ground that I could make into a decal as well.  Maybe of a brick wall or cement blocks.

I'm really excited about this project and being able to incorporate it into my clay work!

Street art: Final Project

For this final piece, I have decided to construct a triangular box from clay.  Each side will be a different "scene" and as the viewer turns to the next side, the narrative will cycle.

I took photos for this piece.  Here are a few.

grafitti-ing

 

 

 

 

Walking up to the wall

 I have not yet begun to work in Photoshop on this piece, but I have been in the clay studio rolling slabs to construct my box. 

FINAL PROJECT: brainstorming

For the final project, I am working to combine some other inspirations that I have had in other classes.  I have really been looking into street art and graffiti this last part of the semester and would like to incorporate it into this project.  I would also like to use my area of study: Ceramics.  I want to create a square tile (or maybe cut into a graffiti shape) and then use decals to put imagery on this piece.

The digital imaging part of the project that I am foreseeing is a time lapse of the cycling of graffiti.  It would start with a person standing in front of a wall (back to the viewer), then in middle someone painting on the wall and then to the far right hand side, there will be someone rolling the wall with white paint.

*These images are not my own and I did not take these photos*

 this is a decal on a ceramic piece.  I think my piece will be in high contrast black and white and then use glazes and paint to add color to the piece.

final: movement project

crit movement

I added bark texture to the trunk of the tree shape and made the fingers disappear into the cracked soil. 

hand progress

narrative

narrative

extremely rough, but the idea of combining the two. 

visual sequential narrative

my idea is to use the human body as subject matter.  I want to start with the head and through layers, move to the feet where the body will be changed into dust or dandelion petals..  I want to ulimately have the concept that the body is purely a means of transportation through this life and even with the hardships and different struggles that we each have, we ultimately will just disappear and return to the earth

more tree

cyclical nature of things

final images

more progress

in progress

Here is another draft of the destroy the icon project

I am now actually listening to the blues brothers' music and collecting ideas from the songs.

PROJECT 2 weekend progress

I have decided to stick with the blues brothers.  This my progress so far.  I'm new at photo shop and am still getting comfortable with it.

"Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange

 
This is another image that is a possibility for this project

Project 2

Here are the images I have scanned in and am thinking about using.

The Blues Brothers















John Lenin

Keith Haring

All of these photos were shot by Annie Leibovitz

 

I am still working on choosing, but I have also created a few scanograms as well.

FINAL FANTASY "APPLIANCE"

giraffe in progress

Progress throughout Class period (February 6, 2012)

middle of class

end of class

giraffe progress

I have found an environment for my giraffe.  He will be "measuring the shrinking watering hole for his community.  The back ground will have mountains, trees, and a few other animals.  A small sign may be added to the right hand corner, with the worlds, "Today's width: ..."

girrrrrraffe

In class progress from Wednesday, February 1st.

 

Still to do:
- morph the giraffe body into the shape of a measuring tape dispenser body.
- integrate parts of the head with the end of the measuring tape
- create a scenario in which the giraffe is measuring

• measuring distance of predator?
• measuring blue prints for a hut? giraffe? 

Giraffe measuring tape

I have finally found an idea I will be sticking with.  A giraffe measuring tape.  The giraffe body will connect to a piece of the measuring tape and then the head will be at the top.  The scene will be a Saharan region and the giraffe may be reaching into the ruler trees for some food. 

I have had trouble finding how to make the eraser bigger and erase a larger area than just a small point. I also had trouble with being able to select and move the object after I had erased part of it.  I had to expand the object and then erase.  Would that have made it so I could not move it around the scene anymore?

I am not as far along as I would have hoped, but getting the hang of this illustrator thing is a little rough when the computer is a challenge already.

New idea: Curling Iron Jelly Fish

I have come up with a new idea for my appliance.  I want to morph a jelly fish and a curling iron together.  The ideas that binds the two unrelated subjects is electricity and the damaging effects of touching either with the body.

Technically I'm still having trouble working my way around illustrator.  The jelly fish was scanned into a file from a drawing I did and then live traced.  The big black smudge is from the paper. I tried to find how to get rid of that or even how to separate the objects (fish and jelly fish), but to no avail. I will be morphing one of the tentacles to the shape of the curling iron.  This will probably be done through drawings at first and then manipulation on the computer.

The curling iron was a high contrast picture that was live trace.

I will be working on this image tonight so I can have a "real" idea of what overall it will look like by tomorrow morning.