In the second semester I have learned many different art techniques.
The first project that we did was making a coil pot. In that project I learned a couple of different ways that you can make a coil pot and that you should smooth it out on the inside to help it stick together better.
The second project that we did was the clay lantern/house. With that project, I made mine into a bigger version of a Hershey Kiss and I learned how to make the clay into a cone shape- that was probably the hardest part.
The one after that was our advanced ceramic project. I thought that it was cool how we got a lot of different choices on what we wanted to make. I chose to make a checker board with pieces for this project and I didn't really learn all that much from it, I just thought that it was a good way to get creative with some of the projects.
After that, we did our light bulb structure project. I thought that it was really neat because I hadn't really thought of using light bulbs for an art project. I learned how to take all of the stuff out of a light bulb. There were a lot of different ideas that you could do for this project, and I think it would be fun to do some of the other ideas sometime.
After our light bulb structure project, we started our last project- papier mache sculpture. I thought that this project was pretty fun, although it was kind of hard to come up with an idea for it at first. I hadn't ever made a big papier mache project like that before, so it was a new experience for me.
For the Art Fair, there were a lot of very well done and creative pieces there! I think my favorite section of the Art Fair was the Acrylic/ Oil Painting area- there was a ton of good art. In my own personal opinion, two of my favorite pieces in that section was the one of the little girl swimming and the one that was black and white and of the sports team. The one of the little girl swimming was just so detailed and looked like it could've been a picture taken. The one of the sports team was just really good and had a lot of detail in it also. Another cool piece that I saw at the Art Fair was in the Mixed Medias area and it was a mixture between a piano and buildings; it was just so creative.
