Term 2 Extra Art

Term 2 Extra Art

 Mikayla

 Maddie

 Bethany

Jessy

 Bethany

 Anika

 Danielle

 Addis

 Danielle

 Bethany

 Addis

 Gabe

 Anika

 Wagema

 Danah

 Wagema

 Gavin

 Tyralinn

Jasmine

Collage and Mixed Media

Feb 28th 2015 I went to an art workshop with my mother ad my aunt. It as called Collage and mixed media with Holly Dean at Heather's Studio in Smiths Falls, ON. It was such a great workshop. I am so glad I went. I really needed that extra push and motivation to create. I felt like I was stuck, like writers block almost. Holly gave so many great tips. I usually begin with acrylic paint on canvas but I felt I wasn't getting enough layers. I would use colours I love and then I would be afraid to continue because I didn't want to wreck it, plus it usually looked nice the way it was so it was hard to keep going. But Holly suggested using collage at first and than painting over it so that's what I did. I am very glad that I chose this method. It really allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and push my boundaries.

Below is the transition I went through to create my piece. Hope you enjoy. many more to come. Muah!

 

 

 

final

 

Monster

                                    front                                                   back

I found this lesson in a book on how to do creative things with canvas. I used inks for the colour. The white is watered down acrylic paint. I didn't realize in applying it that the paint would appear transparent the way it has. This discovery was exciting.
My next project will be to create a mixed media piece using un-gessoed canvas.
I will be doing this project with a group of students. I really look forward to seeing what they come up with.

TheClassRoom

mY cLaSs rOOm

 

This summer my class room cupboards and counters were renovated. I present to you the results. I love my room.

BEFORE

AFTER



BACK ROOM - "ATTICK"

BEFORE

 

AFTER

 

EXTRAS

 

 

 

Musical Set Design Collaboration

Musical Set Design Collaboration

This year I took part in helping out with the set design for the spring musical, Joseph and the Technicoloured Dream Coat. I and 3 of my art students spent many hours after school working on a HUGE Sphinx head. It was a challenging piece as all 4 of us had next to no experience in creating a relief sculpture of this scale. We spent hours creating, researching and experimenting with different materials to come up with the best way to create the Sphinx’s’ features. Although creating the Sphinx was sometimes grueling, challenging, and frustrating, etc, I am eager to take on next year’s set design project as i did enjoy myself and learned a lot. 

Below is a short CAPIES review:

Alina Abramovich, critic, Glebe Collegiate Institute: Especially notable was the construction done by Liam Vienotte, Leslie Savard and Melissa Henderson on the extremely detailed giant sphinx head that served as the Pharaoh’s palace and fantastic backdrop to the Egyptian song numbers.

Materials:

• plaster cast
• newspaper
• masking tape
• card board boxes (for the paws)
• Gesso
• blue water based house paint
• Egyptian gold water based house paint

Cement Leaf Relief

Leaf Relief

This summer my mother and I went to Kiwi Gardens located in Perth, ON. Found here: http://kiwigardens.ca/welcome.htm. We fell in love with a garden art project called “Leaf Relief” created by Deb Stagg. She creates an assortment of garden Leaf ornaments such as bird feeders or bird baths, fountains and stepping stones. Found here: http://www.debstagg.com/leafrelief.htm.

Both my mother and I felt that it looked simple enough that we could figure out how to create them on our own, with some help from the Internet of course.

We began by mixing mortar cement in a standard size wheelbarrow. It is important to make sure the cement isn't too runny/wet. It should be similar to the consistency of brownie mix.

We then created large piles of sand in which we each molded into a form that would support the size of leaf and the desired shape we wanted our cement reliefed leaves to form.  We then laid down plastic and placed our leaves face down so that the veins of the leaf would create the leaf relief in the cement.

It is important to read more details online of the best way to create these leaf reliefs. There are several ways of laying down the cement. What we did was placed handfulls of the cement one by one from the center of the leaf outword. it is important not to have it to think, nomore than 2-1/2" to 3". We also used small chicken wire between the layers of cement to act as extra support.

Once it is left to dry (leaving a plastic bag over it so it doesn't dry to quickly) and the cement is no longer cool to the touch, flip it over onto your sand pile and again leave to dry longer. The leaf will begin to peel off as it drys. A wire brush may be needed to remove any remaining leaf. A sealer needs to be applied in order to leave outside, especially if used for a bird bath.