Assemblage

For this piece, I wanted to demonstrate initially how I could create a realistic sea creature called a Blue Glaucus, made with recycled and reused material found around the art room, but eventually was taken in a different direction, and wanted to add a cuter element and different animals to make it a more unique and never seen before creature. I feel as though even with the change of design and the childish look, I love the final piece as it reminds me of the crazy creatures I would draw as a kid, and I was able to properly demonstrate how you can create interesting things with just a few recycled and misplaced materials.

To create this creature, I started by sketching out a life-sized version of what initially wanted my animal to look like, and then began shaping the body with crumpled-up newspaper and using masking tape to keep it all together. then I began by sketching out where I wanted my middle section to be and used cut-up construction paper and Elmer's glue to create the middle part of the body. Once I got to this part, I saw a lizard body and wanted to take my piece in a different direction. I scratched the initial tentacles and used blue and black duck tape to finish the body. I drew out cute little eyes and a mouth for the creature, and added some adorable gem stickers I found with the duck tape. I glued everything down and added my bee antennas and then it was finished.

to create this final piece, it was a lot of trial and error. I had to do a little reseaching on what a Blue Glaucus was to figure out what the best way to create it was, and then most of this project was about experimenting with different materials, and when I didn't like my initial design, I decided to scratch the Blue Glaucus, and add different elements of other animals to it, to create a new animal as we all remember doing when we were younger. overall, there was very little research done with this piece, but I am happy with the childish results.