My Work in College...so far...


Sculpture


Castle Bookends
Castle Bookends, in use
Pine and PVC Pipe, approximately 12" x 12" x 10"
We had to make something with those two materials that was completely functional. With John's help, my idea was to make a set of bookends for my Harry Potter books that would also hold my collectible items. I learned how to use the lathe and everything to make the tops of the towers. As you can see from the second picture, they work perfectly. **Secret fact: The tops of the towers come off. I have Harry Potter pens and pencils inside them.

Geometric Form
Paper, approximately 10" x 8" x 8"
It's geometric. And it hangs from my ceiling. And yeah.

Go and Catch a Falling Star
Wood, Plexiglass, Cast Aluminum, Fishing Line, approximately 7" x 5" x 15"
I read a poem called Go and Catch a Falling Star, and that phrase was the inspiration for my sculpture. The tiny figure at the bottom is cast in aluminum and is laying on the ground, reaching for a star. The pieces of plexiglass were heated and bent, then strung with fishing line to create the "falling star." The words, Go and Catch A Falling Star are sandblasted into the top curve, also made of plexiglass.

Figure
Cherry Wood, approximately 5" x 5" x 12"
I handcarved this out of a piece of a cherry tree that still had bark on the outside. It's just a figure.

Turtle
Bronze, approximately 6" x 4" x 4"
It's a tiny sculpture, but it's heavier than all of the others. It's real bronze that our class cast from wax molds. The process isn't that difficult, but it's long to explain. It is the same process that they used when the first started making bronze objects.

Turtlerose
Dyed plaster, approximately 8" x 7" x 8"
A project to learn the subtractive sculpting process. You can't really tell, but the shell of the turtle is really a rose. Hence the name.



Watercolor


Abstraction
Watercolor, 22" x 30"
The goal of this project was to take a random object and abstract it. I chose a butterfly shaped hair clip. I used masking fluid to keep the white parts white while just washing colors over the paper. It was lots of fun.

Bottle
Watercolor, 15" x 22"
We were learning how to paint transparent and/or metal object. I brought in an antique Coca-Cola bottle. It looks a lot better than I thought it would.

Flower Garden
Watercolor, 15" x 11"
I love painting and drawing flowers. We don't get a chance to do a lot of this traditional type of stuff at school because they encourage experimental stuff. I was very glad that I got a chance to paint whatever I wanted. I love these flowers.

Pepper
Watercolor, 22" x 30"
Indeed it is a pepper. We painted these for our first project and one of our last. It was amazing to see the progress we made both in drawing a complicated object and in choosing our colors. Color-mixing in watercolor is not as easy as you'd think.



Printmaking


Collagraph #1
Collagraph print, 15" x 15"
One of the printmaking techniques is called "collagraph." The process is to fix objects to a board, roll ink over them, and run it through the press. On this one, I used fabrics in the background, and then ran a different plate with a flat pattern over the top in a complimentary color.

Collagraph #2
Collagraph print, 9" x 11"
I also used fabrics on this one. You'll see a lot of repeating shapes in my prints because we had to stick with the same theme all semester. My theme was "quilt-making" and the fabrics and shapes go along with quilt patterns.

Intaglio #1
Intaglio print, 11" x 14"
The most complex printing technique we learned was intaglio. (pronounced In-tal-lio, silent g). It involves copper plates, grounds, airbrushing, chemical baths, etching, scrapers and burnishers, etc. It's also the most fun.

Relief #1
Relief print, 9" x 11"
We carved different designs in several linoleum tiles and then rolled each with a different color ink. When you print them on top of each other, followed by a keyplate, this is what happens. Also a fun process.

Stairs
Print, 9" x 11"
The most simple form of printmaking. Roll the ink straight onto the glass, scrape off the areas you want light, put it through the press. Each print is unique with this method.



Photography


Pumpkin
Photograph, 9" x 11"
This was not actually an assignment. I took this picture with another assignment and developed it in class for fun. That's my baby!

Isolation
Photograph, 9" x 11"
The first project, subject matter was our own choice. We just had to get used to developing our own film in the darkroom.

Motion
Photograph, 9" x 11"
We had to play around with camera speeds and lens settings to capture something in motion. That's a wind-catcher-thing out at our old gas station.

Night
Photograph, 9" x 11"
It's not really a photograph, but I forget what it's called. In this technique, you place objects directly on light-sensitive paper and play around with the amount of light and length of time the paper is exposed. The round thing is a slinky and the tiny white dots are a sheer scarf thing. I turned on the light for one second, moved the objects slightly, turned the light on again, and repeated several times.

Party
Photograph, 9" x 11"
Same thing as the one above, not sure about the name of the process. These are tassles on top of the same sheer scarf. It was exposed to light for longer.

Shadow
Photograph, 9" x 11"
This project focused on capturing light.



Miscellaneous


Color Theory
Acrylic, Avery labels, matboard, 15" x 10"
The study of monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous color schemes. Basic 2D Design class.

Peppermint
Charcoal on Stonehenge paper, 22" x 30"
The infamous final project in Mr. Edwards' class. It's the same every year. Peppermints.

Still Life
Graphite on paper, 22" x 30"
Just a still life. But, on this day, I finally understood fabric. The fabric and I became one. All was good. Go me!

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