Now this is pottery! I love the textures he puts into his pots. I have some of his pottery from when I bought it on our Art Club Field Trip last year, I'll make sure to post it later on. The pictures were courtesy of Mrs. Meyer, since I was home sick.
The Artist Research Project was where you chose an artist (I got Jan Van Eyck) and had to make a presentation about their life, artwork, ect. At first I had wanted to make a puppet show. Then I decided I'd sort of do a puppet show but with slides, then put it into movie form. It honestly took a lot of work doing each separate slide, because I had to make the original backgrounds, then the same ones but with my characters popping up, and then separate ones for their speech bubbles, turning it into a stop motion thing. 1. What did you learn about from completing your artist research project? I learned that if you get an interesting idea in your head, go for it, although make sure you set away lots of time to work on it if it's a school project with a deadline, because this little lovely took 3 whole days and a half. Coloring 43 (I am soo not lying) slides takes a lot of TIME and PATIENCE and EFFORT. 2. What did you learn from presenting? I learned to thank teachers for not making their students stand awkwardly at the front while their video presentation is playing. Oh and I also learned to keep your mind absolutely blank while the video is going, or you might start getting super embarrassed. 3. What are you the most proud of? I am proudest of how well I met my deadline, I wasn't sure I was going to make it. It brought a lot of anxiety. 4. How do you now understand the visual arts in relation to history and culture? I understand it pretty good. 5. What did you learn about art movements? I learned that particular art movements were all the rage at certain times, like in the 13-1400's it was oil portraits. But when a new art movement came along, it was considered crazy and newfangled, but then it began to grow on the people, resulting in a brand new art movement. Look below at some of the scenes I made for my presentation. (= Okay so I tried out the potter's wheel. Can someone say "epic failure?" It ended looking even more like a mishapen blob. I had difficulties even making the hole for my bowl! I don't have any pictures, which is too bad, because my blob would look very comical for sure.
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