Drawings from Art 2031 Class - Fall 2010

  

As promised I have taken a few pics of my assignments from my Art 2031A class from my first semester.  I hope you like them.

Happy New Year - 2011

Happy 2011 everyone!   It's been a nice break from school, and Jan. 10th I go back for my second semester.  But I wanted to post my marks I got from my 1st semester and here they are:

Art History = A
Anthropology = B-
Women's Studies = A-
Art 2031A = A
Art 2032A = A
My GPA (grade point average with 4.00 being the highest was 3.68)

So needless to say....I am pretty happy about my marks.  Here are the classes I'll be taking this semester, and they are as follows:

Gender in Art and Art History,  Phychology 1000,  Drawing I,  Computer Art

I'm only taking 4 classes instead of 5, because 5 was almost too much; I thought I was loosing my mind at times.

I turned the big 40 three days ago, and I wasn't as depressed as I thought I was going to be.  Maybe it hasn't hit me yet!  I'll sure feel it when I return to school next week, with all of those young kids around.  Perhaps their youth will rub off on me...ya think?

I've started an Art Journal....you remember I posted Teesha Moore's YouTube clip on how she makes art journals awhile ago....we'll now I'm obsessed and I'm really loving the journey. 

If you're interested in starting one...and I REALLY encourage everyone out there to try at least one...it is very freeing, not only creatively, but personally.  No one says you have to show it to anyone...just do it for you, that's where it starts.

I will post more pics from my second semester as I get into it.  I still have some drawings to post from my Art 2031 class.

I wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2011!!!

Hand Casts - Art 2032A - Fall 2010

This assignment was for my Art 2023A class (3-D) and we had to do cast molds of our hands.  We had to measure exactly the width, length and height of our hands and fingers.  We were to 'double' the size and do it as realistic as possible. 

This was my 1st time making a life-like replica of my hand, and I think I did pretty good - I'm no Rodin, but not too bad either.











Then we had to make a silicon mold out of our clay hand. (no pictures for that one)  After the silicon had dried, we took out the clay and we poured plaster into our mold.








These were the results.  Turned out pretty well.  Just needs a little sanding.  I'm going to clean it up, maybe paint it and hang it in my studio at home, when I get one of course!

Then, we had to make one more hand from our silicon mold.  We had to choose a bonding agent and with a material that you could sift through your hands like rice or sand.  I tried a few experiments with wax and dried peas, white glue and fabric (to dense to completely dry), and melted marshmallows with dried dog food. (stank really bad)
 
 
 

 
 
BUT, I finally decided to line my silicon mold with Hodge Podge and pieces of fabric.  It turned out really well - as you can see!

Art Book - Art 2031A Class - Fall 2010

     Below is the art book assignment that was our last assignment for the semester.  I worked on it for 2 weeks, and it was a great success. 

The theme was "The Kiss" - my interpretation was all of the words or phrases in the english language that we use with the word 'kiss' in them.

I also tore each strip of fabric and wanted a faded scruffy look to it.

Enjoy!!

"Created by Kerry Lee & Blog URL"  -  "Kiss and Tell"

"Sealed with a Kiss"  -  "Kiss'n Cousin"

"Kiss Off"  -  "Kiss of Death"

"Kizz"  -  "Kiss of Life"

"Kiss it better"  -  "French Kiss"

"Raspberry Kisses"  -  "Kiss and make-up"

"Eskimo Kiss"  -  "Hugs & Kisses"

"Butterfly Kisses"  -  "Hershey Kisses"

"Good-by Kiss" (pic of Me)  -  "Credits and Thanks"

Charcoal Animation - Art 2031A Class - Fall 2010

Here our Art 2031A class did charcoal animation.  One wall we had to remove the charcoal with an eraser and the other side we had to add charcoal.  Our instructor, David Miller, and a  student, Alex Horne, took 30 second pictures of the progression we were making as we added and removed charcoal.They both turned out really well.We did this assignment about 2 weeks ago.It was a lot of work....but oh so fun!

1st Wall - Animation Charcoal Remove

2nd Wall - Animation Charcoal Add

PinHole Camera - Art 2031A Class - FALL 2010

I'm still here....school has been crazy busy, but it's soon coming to an end for the first semester, and finally I'm able to put up some more pictures.

The picture to the left is a wooden make-up case that I bought at Value Village for my very first assignment I had in my ART 2031A (2-D Foundation - drawing & image) class I had this semester. 

We were to find an object and make a pinhole camera out of it.  A container of some kind that was 'light' tight, and if it wasn't we had to make it so.  It also had to be something that we could put a very small pin hole in it to take pictures with.  This camera took beautiful miniature pictures - no bigger than your thumbnail.  The detail was wonderful.  Time consuming, but well worth the results.  Enjoy the pictures - AND more to come!

 

The pictures below were done with the make-up case camera you see above - they are self portraits.

Picture B below was done with another camera I had bought.  It was a tin can in the shape of a strawberry.  Sorry don't have the pic for that.  The Funky Negative, wasn't the pinhole camera, but was me using Photoshop to get a weird altered picture of the original Negative B - another self-portrait.

The picture below was also done with the strawberry camera outside on the University campas.

Art 2032A Class Continued...

I promised more pictures and so here they are.  I completed my Cone, Cube & Sphere project in my 3-D Foundation class....and here are the pictures. (my cube & cone are on my earlier posts)

I did my sphere out of junk that no one throws away and it's kept in our junk drawers.  This one was a bit more difficult to glue, but I think it turned out great.

The first 2 pics are close-ups.  The rest you can see the whole thing.

Below are some of the works that my classmates did for this project....really cool!!

THE BELOW ARE CLOSE-UPS OF SOME OF THEM!

This sphere is made of clear plastic cups....looks really cool, like a chandelier.

This one is made of rocks.  It's not a pile of rocks, it is an actual hollow rock cube!

This cone is made from a towel, she cut it and wound it around itself....looks like a soft mountain. 

This cube is made of a mirror.  Say cheese!!!

This cone is poker chips and playing cards.  I like how the cards look like their flying.

This sweet sphere is made from candy....ummmmm, Candy!!!

This cone is by the same candy artist as above, it's made out of cat hair.  She said she won't have to brush her kitty for months!

This is a cone made from wire, which has the cone, cube and sphere shaped wire already in it.

This beautiful sphere is, of course, paper umbrellas.

This one is so cool....the cone is 3 cassette tapes that he wrapped around a cone, and use the plastic cassette case as well.

NEXT....... I had to do an exhibit for my Women's Studies class on "The Hutterites".  Here is our board we did.  Turned out very well....was one of the best ones there, I thought! (yes, there is fake wheat at the top of the board...we were going for the farm life look)