So far this quarter, I have made multiple paintings. But the thing that I am most proud about is not a painting; it’s an elephant sculpture made out of wire and cork.
In this project, the two studio habits of mind that I focused on were “I take risks” and “I developed my art making skills”. I took risks by doing something I've never done before, which was create a project with wire. I had no past experience with this kind of work, and every problem I came across, I winged because I had no idea what I was doing.
This is where “I developed my art making skills” comes in. I eventually developed a good technique on how to coil the wire using pliers. Eventually, I came across the problem of how I was going to make the elephant stand, which I solved by using my coil technique to make little coils, and leave wire at the end so I could insert it in the cork to make the elephant stand on all fours without falling over
Now, what I did to make this elephant was make the trunk and head first. I made small coils to make the trunk, and eventually I made the coils wider to make the head. I made elephant ears out of cork, and I put the in between the coiled wires. To make the legs, I made little coils, but I did not expand them like I did with the head. For the tail, I took a coil that I scraped from my first try on the head, and it seemed to level out the weight between the two ends. I used a cork as the body, which worked well to put all the body parts together.
The element of art I used the most is form. I had to use form on the elephant because I had to make the elephant’s body parts both proportional and sturdy. I couldn't have the ears too small because that wouldn't be proportional to the elephant’s head, but if I made them too big, that would add too much weight to the elephant’s head and make it fall over.
This is where “I developed my art making skills” comes in. I eventually developed a good technique on how to coil the wire using pliers. Eventually, I came across the problem of how I was going to make the elephant stand, which I solved by using my coil technique to make little coils, and leave wire at the end so I could insert it in the cork to make the elephant stand on all fours without falling over
Now, what I did to make this elephant was make the trunk and head first. I made small coils to make the trunk, and eventually I made the coils wider to make the head. I made elephant ears out of cork, and I put the in between the coiled wires. To make the legs, I made little coils, but I did not expand them like I did with the head. For the tail, I took a coil that I scraped from my first try on the head, and it seemed to level out the weight between the two ends. I used a cork as the body, which worked well to put all the body parts together.
The element of art I used the most is form. I had to use form on the elephant because I had to make the elephant’s body parts both proportional and sturdy. I couldn't have the ears too small because that wouldn't be proportional to the elephant’s head, but if I made them too big, that would add too much weight to the elephant’s head and make it fall over.
Now that I’m done with the elephant, I am going to work on the bully project. I am focusing on bullying within the LGBTQ+ community.
So far, I have a background with a watercolour rainbow, and I am planning to add a picture of a person getting bullied and statistics of bullying in the LGBTQ+ community.