1. I Create Original Art:
For the dwelling piece, I was in the mood for either a water mill / cottage or a log cabin. For one thing, I was absent for the introduction of this project, so I secretly thought a lot of people were going to choose a log cabin; however only one other person is doing one in our class. My source of inspiration for this product was the holiday cheer. As I was producing my project, more Christmasy ideas popped into my head such as: The snowy roof and Christmas lights, tree and wreaths. Also, I bet no one made a smaller version of their house; more specifically into a dog house ( for a pinata).
2. I Reflect:
Some unexpected "bumps in the road" so to speak came about as I completed the cabin. I stepped back to look at the piece after the long struggle of hot-gluing all the (real) sticks together. I was kind of upset to realize that there were glue spider webs stringing down from all angles; luckily, this was entirely fixable. I did not anticipate the stringy mess of glue, but since it was able to be corrected it turned out OK. A point when I considered how something was going to work before I tried something new was the spray snow. I have never tried spray snow before but I quickly realized something was not working properly when I sprayed it on the bark roofs of the cabins. Besides the roof error, the cabins were a burden of love and hard work all the same!
Dwelling Questions:
The materials used for this product vary from sticks and bark gathered from the forest behind the trailers to yarn. I used multicolored yarn to create the Christmas lights and windows, bark as shingles, and sticks as the logs for the cabin. I also used the spray snow already mentioned as well as fake plants to create a Christmas tree. The "obstacle" of no clay really did not affect the ability of making a sculpture for me. it was fun to create a doweling out of different objects, that way everyone's' (or almost everyone's ) is different. I would have enjoyed clay more as walls instead of individually gluing each stick together and them breaking; however this was part of the fun! Another challenge of less to none clay ( I did not use any) is the support and strength of the dwelling; mine if very fragile and if it were clay it would be less fragile ( even though ceramics are still very breakable). Overall, it was a cool idea to not be able to use much clay this time!
Pinterest Board: http://www.pinterest.com/lightningred123/dwellings/
For the dwelling piece, I was in the mood for either a water mill / cottage or a log cabin. For one thing, I was absent for the introduction of this project, so I secretly thought a lot of people were going to choose a log cabin; however only one other person is doing one in our class. My source of inspiration for this product was the holiday cheer. As I was producing my project, more Christmasy ideas popped into my head such as: The snowy roof and Christmas lights, tree and wreaths. Also, I bet no one made a smaller version of their house; more specifically into a dog house ( for a pinata).
2. I Reflect:
Some unexpected "bumps in the road" so to speak came about as I completed the cabin. I stepped back to look at the piece after the long struggle of hot-gluing all the (real) sticks together. I was kind of upset to realize that there were glue spider webs stringing down from all angles; luckily, this was entirely fixable. I did not anticipate the stringy mess of glue, but since it was able to be corrected it turned out OK. A point when I considered how something was going to work before I tried something new was the spray snow. I have never tried spray snow before but I quickly realized something was not working properly when I sprayed it on the bark roofs of the cabins. Besides the roof error, the cabins were a burden of love and hard work all the same!
Dwelling Questions:
The materials used for this product vary from sticks and bark gathered from the forest behind the trailers to yarn. I used multicolored yarn to create the Christmas lights and windows, bark as shingles, and sticks as the logs for the cabin. I also used the spray snow already mentioned as well as fake plants to create a Christmas tree. The "obstacle" of no clay really did not affect the ability of making a sculpture for me. it was fun to create a doweling out of different objects, that way everyone's' (or almost everyone's ) is different. I would have enjoyed clay more as walls instead of individually gluing each stick together and them breaking; however this was part of the fun! Another challenge of less to none clay ( I did not use any) is the support and strength of the dwelling; mine if very fragile and if it were clay it would be less fragile ( even though ceramics are still very breakable). Overall, it was a cool idea to not be able to use much clay this time!
Pinterest Board: http://www.pinterest.com/lightningred123/dwellings/