AP Art Poster

My dance teacher and employer, Miss Kathleen Van De Veere, sponsered me for the AP Art Poster. It was hilarious, I took it in to her during her itty bitty ballet class and she then spent a consecutive two minutes telling the girls how awesome I am. I love Kathleen!

Check us out online at http://www.misskathleen.net/!

We had finals this week. AGH! I am so thankful that, that was the last time I'm EVER taking an AP Stat test. But luckily I am super stoked about my projects that are due tomorrow in AP3D. I'm turning in my WeeBot and my new piece that I made from other materials besides clay, Rolling on a River.

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Can you figure out why I named him Rolling on a River? Leave a comment and tell me what you think my pun is!

New Material

I decided that instead of just making my concentration out of clay, I am going to start making those forms with different (new) materials. I started one that going to be made out of marbles and I was also considering scrabble board letter tiles, ribbons, broken up cork board, and possibly even metal wiring.

I was looking at an artist that I found over the internet, Katja Syrjä. She is a 2D artist, but I was reading about her processes and her materials and I found something that interested me, "Syrjä is interested in using materials that she discovers in different environments". I decided that I was going to start looking for materials that were different from the usual and try and really make my concentration unique.

http://www.katjasyrja.com/statement.html

My Poker Face and Mother Nature have been fired and my WeeBot is going into the bisque ware soon. Once they are finished I will post pictures of them. So excited!

Silver is spelled weirdly...

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that I won a silver key on my Mr. Brave New World, and a silver key on my Mrs. Brave New World. I am so excited! I never actually thought that my pieces would win any awards.

I am so happy that I plan on having one of my future concentration pieces silver based (if I can). I'm going to try and figure something out and see if I can do it. Make it kind of futuristic.

Everyone did such a great job in the Scholastic Art Awards. Almost everyone in the AP3D class got awards for the pieces they submitted. Ryland probably won the most. Check out his blog under the "Other AP3D Blogs" tab on my page.

Well, I'm off to go create something else... :)

Love,
Jacqui

Winter Break Explosion

Over winter break I was looking through my old photos from the AP3D field trip to Portland...and I decided to incorporate some of them into my concentration pieces. I dcecided to try and make my next little guy "Damaged".

I underglazed two new pieces this winter break as well. But the one that I stained EXPLODED! It was sitting in my garage when the snow came and it got a little too cold. BOOM! I immediately took the other two pieces back to school because I was afraid that they would explode too.

I will hopefully have 3 more projects done by the end of next week. And I plan on starting to make a couple more today.

Love,

Jacqui