Photoshop

Paul Kuehn,

My art’s name is Lighting

8x10

To make my art I used my computer and a software called Adobe Photoshop Elements.

I’m not really sure where my inspiration came. I guess I just thought of lighting and thought cool let's draw it. The colors that I used in my art where different tones of green, different tones of brown, yellow, black and gray. I used these colors making my background purple and the lighting. Then I made the foreground black. Last I did the detailed trees. I did all of these in different layers. The lightning is the main part of my art. I made it more realistic by making it more jagged. I like how I made my lighting jagged to make it look more realistic. One thing that I wish I would have done differently was to make every single plant its own layer.

Paul Kuehn

“Elephant Tea”

8.5 x 4.75 x 6.5

clay, cutting needle, rib, glaze, slip, and firing.

I first got the idea of doing a tea pot because I love to drink tea. I knew that I wanted to do a teapot but I want to make it fun so I decided to base it off an elephant. I first researched different teapots. After I found the one that I wanted to do I sketch it out. Then I watched a video on how to shape the clay. Then I wrote my steps on how I would construct it. Then I made it. I had a problem with my spout of my teapot staying up. I solved it by propping it up with plastics bags. One risk that I had to take was making two pinch bowls and then slipping them together. I’m glad it didn’t break or get cracked. I like the colors of glaze that I picked and how dark they turned out. I also like how my glaze had some light gray spots. It gives it a cool look. I wish that I could have maybe put feet on the bottom. I think that would have looked cool. I also wish I would have spent a little more time making the lid fit the teapot opening better.

This is my hand for my body of work project. It is a recreation of Tim Tiaudua painting "Desert Tray".