Recycled Sculpture

This is Pippin the Pirate. His head and body are spools of thread covered with fabric, his hat is a metal hinge or support of some kind and a feather, and his arms and legs are tiny tools and lollipop sticks. His island is made of a paint cap, masking tape, dust from sandstone, more fabric, and charms. 

Homework: Recycled Art

Reverse Graffiti

Eco Artists: Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist who uses only nature to create interesting images. This means that he doesn't use paints to edit- he lets nature do the work. He does most of his stuff in Scotland and arranges it so that it's like a spiral or triangle.

Eco Artists: Chris Jordan

Homework: Art 21

http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-jeff-koons-in-fantasy


I chose the Fantasy category and in the search engine five videos came up. I picked this one because it looked interesting. This artist, Jeff Koons, does large-scale paintings and sculptures that are colorful, fantastical, and make a real statement. He has a huge studio with loads of people that execute his crazy ideas, which helps to make sure that everything is done properly. For example, when paint colors are mixed, the color is shown to several different people that must agree that it's the right color before it hits the canvas. 
Koons definitely has an interesting style. One of the coolest sculptures I saw in the video was the bottom half of a pink metallic egg next to its lid, and the inside was reflective. Another one I saw was a tall bear holding a scared policeman's whistle. The paintings have a very pop art feel to them, even though they're a bit more modernized. His work is light and heavy at the same time, like a big shaped balloon you'd see in a funhouse. He even had a show in Versailles of all his whacky stuff.

Homework: High Speed Photography

High speed photography is very interesting because it captures the beauty and wonder of something happening instantly that we usually can't see. These are five examples from the internet that I have found. The first picture is of marbles dropping into some sort of glass container, and it creates interesting reflections. The second picture is more abstract since it's hard to tell what it actually is. The rainbow colors it has makes it really awesome. I also like how the splatter is reflected on the black surface below. The third picture is my favorite picture of the ones I've posted because it's so simple and yet so complicated at the same time. The background looks kind of like a cityscape or stars in the night sky, and inside the water drops you can imagine a world within it that mirrors the background. The colors are pretty and the depth of field is awesome since the drops are sharp and clear and the background is blurry. The fourth picture is a water balloon being popped, which looks like something exploding (I think on the website, it said it looked like a planet being blown up). You can see the individual streams of water, which is cool cause you generally can't see them when someone hits you with a water balloon. The fifth picture is a light bulb being shattered which is cool cause you can still see the last remaining light at the bottom before it would completely disappear from being broken. These pictures make me want to try this technique on my own if I learned how to do it.

Photography Scavenger Hunt

Rule of Thirds:

 Bird's Eye:

 Worm's Eye:

 Reflection:

Dramatic Shadow:

Silhouette:

 Mergers:

Letter Photos: Dotty

Surreal- Challenging Scale:

Primary Colors:

Midair:

Organic:

Negative Space:

 Portrait: