Concentration #3

The subject of my creation are two fish earrings. This work was made with sculpey and dangle earring pieces. First I made them by drawing out the fish I wanted to make, and then I made an outline, kind of like a cookie cutter for these fish, and the I drew on the stripes by looking at a picture and baked them for 25 minutes. I then attached the dangle earring pieces to the back with hot glue and covered the hot glue the next day with sculpey and baked them again. I chose to create this because my concentration is marine life and I thought that these would look nice, and be a unique art project to work on. Specific elements and principles I used in this artwork would be balance by making them the same size and having the stripes balancing right, and line as you can see with the stripes.

Composition rules and techniques I used in this art project are, framing with the cookie cutter I used to make them, ad formal balance by making them look similar but not the exact same. My project evolved because at first I thought this was going to go like a breeze but in fact it was much harder than I expected and I came into a lot of difficulties. I tried to insert the earring piece through the earing shape itself but the earring cracked multiple times and I ha to super glue them together and eventually glue the earring piece to the back of the earring which is not what I wanted to do but it still looked ok.

The meaning behind my artwork is, to be aware of all of the random little fish in the ocean big and small, I didn't really know anything about this fish, and after inspecting it closely to make this project I feel like i got to know it better. This project relates to my life because I really love marine life and it is really special to me which is also part of the reason I made this project. I would definitely change my project by making a whole in the sculpey when it is moldable rather than trying to when it is hard and then breaking it. If I had done this previously, my project would've turned out way different and a lot better.