Art 7

Marjory Alger

“Lost in Words”

8 x 5 x 3.5

Old Book

Fake Flowers

Plaster

Paint

I was inspired by how much words can mean. Also my love for flowers of course. I love how much the little things matter in life. I believe that you should always cherish those little things, such as words. I also wanted a sort of old/happy/vintage vibe. I wanted to incorporate flowers in some way from the start. My process was kind of slow. First I molded the plaster onto the mask mold in three layers and waited for it to dry. After that I cut off all of my access plaster on the edges of my mask. Then I painted my mask yellow. I didn’t really like how it was turning out. So I tried to make it better by painting over it with silver. That in my opinion did not look to hot. So I totally covered my mask in book pages. That looked pretty sweet but I wanted some sparkle. So I covered it in modge podge and sprinkled some silver glitter over it. Then I hot glued the flowers on to the top of the mask. The mask turned out better than I planned! Whenever I would realize that something was not going to work out I had to improvise and think about things that would work, and also look like it was planned. One of the creative risks I took was putting on metallic paint over my yellow paint. It made it look way more dirty and musky and dark looking. I wanted it to be something that you look at and it makes you happy. My favorite thing is how everything blended together. I also love that it was not my plan that I originally had but yet it worked out so well. If I could start over, I would get different flowers and position them in a better way. I love how it turned out, but if I positioned them differently they would look more neat. Overall I am pretty satisfied with my mask project.

Marjory Alger

“Leaves Color, Leaves of Change”

9 x 12

Hot glue

Oil pastels

Watercolor

My source of inspiration for this project was the beautiful warm colors of fall. I love how beautiful the nature around us becomes in fall. Of course, a main factor or focus in fall is the leaves. The beautiful changing of the colors outside and the perfect temperatures. My process of this project was first sketching what I wanted to hot glue. Then I hot glued over my sketch of the leaves and the designs. Then I put oil pastels over it in a ombre design with warm colors. After that, I had to blend it all over for the ombre effect. Next, I made dents in my paper to get a crackle effect. Then, I put black watercolor over my whole project and rinsed that off with water. I let that dry and I was done. My challenge during this was getting the oil pastels to blend together making an ombre effect. This was difficult because I wanted them to look like they floated onto the next color. I learned that when using oil pastels it is good to wash your hands and you need to wash your hands a lot. My favorite thing about my work was how well my crackles on the background of my paper turned out. If I could change one thing I would change my design in the background because it is sort of random design.