Devon+Thomas

Quarter 4: This quarter for my projects I finished my fish canvas, I also worked with my other elective Digital Video and created a 5 minute film. I used both of these as my art projects this quarter.

My underwater scene with fish was finished by creating a background scene using charcoal and by making a frog sitting on a rock with stained glass.





After using the charcoal I had to shake the excess off of the board and it turned out to look like a really cool picture.

My Digital Video film is futurama-esque, I worked with Sophia Moreno and one of the seniors Vienna Tartaglia. Each of us took turns working the camera, I helped set up and Vienna and Sophia recorded. I was the main character in the film. The sound is a little off and there is a lot of background noise that we couldn't get out of the audio, but the video is of an awesome quality. The video is about a girl who goes back in time and everything is different, really different, sometimes no one speaks her language and others people try to eat her.. and it all started with a hot pocket.. How you ask? Just watch and see for yourself!

This Quarter I also started a photography portfolio on flickr. My flickr account is [|FLICKR] Quarter 3:
 * This project is unfinished and will be continued in the next quarter.

The project that I chose to do is an underwater scene with fish and other sea animals made with bubble wrap and stained glass. I used a canvas and glued stained glass onto it in the shape of a fish and a turtle. Over the next few weeks I will add more animals to the scene and possibly some plants as well. I will also add the bubble wrap water onto the scene to make it look more realistic. Materials: 1. Stained Glass 2. Bubble wrap 3. Tempera Paint 4. Paper 5. Canvas

This project started out as bubble wrap being painted like flags, rainbows, or just different patterns. While I was doing this with the limited bubble wrap that I had I found Stained glass lying around my house. I then worked with Sophia and used the glass as body art. After that class period I realized that I wanted to create my project with both stained glass and bubble wrap. The first thing that went through my mind was summer so I thought of an underwater scene to do. The fish are glass and the water is going to be made out of bubble wrap.











Quarter 2:









Materials: 1. Crayons ~ Pink, Violet Red, Black, Yellow, Red, Dark Pink.(Pink Panther) ~ Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, etc... 2. Wax Paper 3. Candle Wick 4. Iron 5. Oven 6. Razor Blade 7. Lead Pieces 8. Hot Glue Gun

I struggle with Art and trying to figure out what to complete for a project, so I took a suggestion from my Art teacher to make a stained glass piece of art using crayon wax. I put a lot of effort into this project, spending countless hours shaving crayon pieces to put into a mold, made out of candle wick.

First I created a snowman mold because it was close to Christmas. I envisioned my piece hanging and shimmering in the front window of my house in front of the Christmas Tree, capturing glimmers of light from the falling snow outside. My vision was crushed when my project crashed and burned. The final product was not what I wanted it to be after heating it in the kitchen oven on 350 degrees. So I tried again with a different mold, this time the Pink Panther, one of my favorite characters and one of my favorite movies. I was inspired by a stuffed animal decorated for New Years. It was a Pink Panther with golden slippers on his feet. Christmas was over and it was almost New Years. Also, I thought the smaller piece would work better for what I was trying to accomplish. However, trying a different heating method, still did not produce the outcome I desired. I shaved all of the pink crayons I had in the Crayola box and then ironed the piece with a iron. All of the colors began to mold together and they were not evenly spread out. The New Year did not help me create a better art piece.

After that dilemma, I took a torch lighter and used whole crayons and melted them into the candle wick that made the outlined edges of the mold, right over the original Pink Panther piece. Even though they were not traditional pink panther colors, it looked better than the original finished product because the surface was smoother and it was thicker. By doing this work I am trying to find the right mix of heat and color combined so it makes a smooth and more transparent stained glass looking piece.

Quarter 1: I didn't finish my project because I had a very hard time deciding what to complete, and when I did figure that out I had trouble sketching the flowers I was going to draw. Once I finally drew a flower I thought looked good I had to trace it and create a stencil, which took time. My final project was going to be finger painted flowers which are done but I also needed a background idea which is what I am working on now.