This term, or half term, we're studying Keith Haring, an artist who wanted to spread joy throught the world with his drawings and sculptures. The last few weeks we made a paper based art. But now, we're doing a tape tinfoil sort of sculpture. 

This was the stage where I did paper mache. Before, we actually crumpled tin foil, and used tape to connect all of it together. It was really difficult at first, but then it got easier and easier every time you did it. Sadly I didn't have pictures of the time we did the tape, because no one took photos. But I can describe it.

11/10/2024

Today I'm going to show you everything we covered in thr past few weeks, like as it says up there on the first textbox, we did a Keith Haring painting.

And after we cut the paper and stuck them in to the background, which was a white template, we finelined them with super large black permanant markers, so it looked more better and more visible, otherwise we might not know what it actually is.

Figure Sculpture

Eventually after we did the poster, which was so fun, we made a sculpture. Firstly, we used tin foil and crumbled it to look like a head, and then the torso, and the legs, arms, beasically every part in the human body,and that was so fun!!! I also really liked to crumble the tin foil!

Paper mache

After we connected it together, we did paper mache, where we dipped newspaper with glue, and water mixed together. This makes the newspaper thicken the figure, and when the glue dries, the figure becomes hard.

I found the glue and the water kind of disgusting...

Painting it white!

I wish that I have painted it more throughly, becaue there are some spots that are not completley covered in white paint. And, to be honest, you wouldn't even know that this was made of tin foil at the first place. We're gonna spay paint today!

Shaded statue

So after we completed all of our work, they were oresented outside at the entrance for an art exhibition, so parents and siblings can see your artworks. Here's some of mine:

Today we made melting clocks out of clay! We used a technique to stuck the edges on, and we put a ball of tin foil under the clock so it would form kind of a melting shape. A few weeks later, we're going to paint it white so that we can actually paint the clocks , so the colors don't go dark.

Today we painted our clocks. Our clay clocks! Two weeks ago, we painted them white, and today we with the design we created. I improvised, because I didn't really like my design, so I did the imaginative designnof a galaxy instead!

The red ball on the top is like a cherry, and the blackness represents the emptiness and lonliness but also the interesting style of space. The background  represents a galaxy in space. So this clock basically shows you a cherry floating around in space :)

The white circle in the middle doesn't stand for a single thing. It's just there so you know it's a clock. Because my clock... does not look like a clock one single bit. It looks like antiny little squid, and I'm proud of it!

Today we added details into our clocks, for example the numbers and the little lines and maybe some flowers or any other decorations. We used posca pens for this project!

IMPORTANT!

In order to add those tiny little details, you have to let the paint dry first. Otherwise you're going to ruin the posca pens and your work at the same time. 

Joan Miro inspired drawing

Next, we did a workpiece inspired by Joan Miro, who is an artist related with surrealism, and he only uses primary colors, but he also used a few other colors too! The one above is mine, and I really like it!

But anyways, this is the whale sticker card, and we will be sticking it on a real card, which will make it look so exciting! My choice of card was the 4 (red) and I think I really like the choice of card and the drawing. The colors sort of contrast, which make it more interesting! Here's a picture:

I think it looks really good!

Because we finished all the work, we got to do some surrealism extension on procreate. My idea was to draw books falling from the sky, such as: Diary #1, Percy Jackson and several more!

I'm not finished yet, there will be a lot more floating books around! I'll show you the final result:

This idea is books falling from the sky. I really like this idea because I can draw the textures of the pages, match the colour of the books, blend in the sky, add the clouds and lots more!

At first I had many other ideas but they looked not good, but when this ifea appeared in my head it clicked- I should do the falling books! I really liked that idea, and I put in books that Inliked to read and also some things that are important in my life, for example, Music and Diary #1.

I also didn't draw the sun because it also adds some surrealism in it. The only things that were real were the books that were falling, and the sky, but the rest was all fake. The fact that the books were falling down is amazing and unique!

Today we did some more surrealsim- I loved it! It was very challenging. I think that you can see from the title that we were drawing an eye. I liked it but it was extremly hard for me.

Paisley patterns

This is the title of the new peoject we're starting on today! Well, not technically today. We started drawing it last week, and added the patterns, drawing around 4-6 paisleys.

What we're going to do next week is to create the background strips. We'e going to do this by gettign a strip of colored paper (grey, black, white) and decorate it with newspaper strips, colored paper (any) and more!

Friday 6 June

I really like this because it is very relaxing at the end. But at first it was very fustrating because sometimes the yarn gets stuck to the fabric and you have to undo it.

This was easy for me because I do scrapbooking activity, so doing the background was okay and I really liked that I matched the colors. And yes, we had to cut out the paisleys by hand, but that was okay.

Today we went outside to the exhibition to take photos of oyr work, which has been stuck up on the walls like last time.