To make these ornaments we used both terra-cotta and white clay. After the clay was rolled out we used cookie cutters to make the shapes. I made my the first one for my little cousin Leila. Her favorite color is pink so I used a fuchsia glaze to paint it. The second one I made look like a snow globe. I used mostly paint pens to draw the snowman. The make the letters Mrs. Haggerty brought us alphabet soup pasta that we stuck into the clay and when it was fired in the kiln it was burnt up and left the impression of the letters. I used some water to round the edged of the snow globe and left them alone on the snowflake.
If you didn't know already I'm a dancer and thats where I got my inspiration for this piece. This once I drew the dancer I did somewhat of a Zentangle design around her. The carving was by far the harder part. I found myself pushing the handle of the tools onto the top of my other hand to pull the blade up. It took us almost 2 weeks to carve and we had another week to print. I was the last one to finish carving because of how detailed parts of it were. The pictures show my progression of carving. When I talked to my dad about this project he told me about how when my parents first got married he carved their Christmas card out of linoleum like this. I brought some of the blocks in to show my classmates and we all thought it was pretty cool.
Before we did our self portraits we looked at facial proportions. The photo on the bottom had lines on it where different features were supposed to be. We used only black and white paint to do both paintings with a flat brush. The top photo was our second attempt without any guidelines. They're a little creepy looking but thats okay.
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CategoriesTessaArt student Archives
May 2016
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