Art in Limerick

 These horses are placed outside of the Hunt Museum and I just love how colourful they are. They are bigger than I thought up close. I made my friend stand beside them and she's not that short but they are still three heads taller then her. 

Graffiti like this is found in a few places around Limerick. If I heard correctly the graffiti artists got together and worked on a project and spray painted boring walls. This is just one of the walls I saw I forgot to take a picture of the other one I saw.

Mixing stencils

I used three stencils :P

Cat Eye Stencil

Once I have more time I will add a smiling mouth with teeth :P 

:D skull stencil

Rose Stencil :D

:P Decorating our Tent

My friend, Nathan, and me are going to a concert soon and my mum told us to mark our tent as it's a tesco one and I'm sure many people could have the same one. So, me and  Nathan decided to make some stencils and spray paint parts of the tent. 

                                                          

This is the tent we are going to spray paint 

Photographs

I took this picture of the cherry blossom a few days ago outside of college. I thought the tree looked very pretty so I took this picture :)

The picture of the ice was taken during winter. 

My first Animation

 

 

 

My first Animation. Sorry about spelling music the german way. Also, it's not properly finished because it got a glitch.  I drew out pictures which I then scanned and coloured in on Photoshop. I then imported the images into Flash and made them move. The sound effects and music were added in Premier pro. I had a lot of fun making this animation and I can't wait to make more.

Animation Elective

All the electives are now over and during the next week we will pick the one we want to do for the rest of the year and the following three years. I am sure that I will pick Animation as my first choice and Print as my second choice.

I had a lot of fun during the two weeks of trying out Animation but I will be honest and say that technology sometimes drove me crazy, especially when I got a glitch. In the last week of animation I learned how to colour in the figures,which I drew and then scanned, in Photoshop. I learned how to make them move on Flash and I put everything together on Premiere pro. I have never used any of those programmes before and I surprised myself that in such a short amount of time I learned how to use them.

I was going to send a video of my animation but for some reason it's not uploading. I might post it some other time

Looking at Lotte Reiniger's Work

Even though my Animation elective wont start till next week I have decided to at least research artists. Today   I am looking at Lotte Reiniger, who was German artist (born in 1899 and died 1981), she was one of the very first silhouette animators and was also a film director. She was known for making productions of fairy tales using a method known as stop motion today. She used cut out images which she then moved and took pictures of.


Here is a link to her video about Hänsel and Gretel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxkIGXVwZTM



This is a link of her production of Däumelinchen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDojanzKKmw


There is another link to one of her productions about Cinderella:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kku75vGDD_0

My finished Dragon Head

Coloured Ceramic Pieces

The following pieces were made out of clay then put into the kiln. They were then painted and fired once again.



This bowl was spun on the wheel

This was made using the pinch-pot method

Two pinch-pots were made and put together. Spikes were then glued on top using slip.

This is how I displayed my pieces for the Assessment

Naked Raku Technique

Here are images of the two Naked Raku pieces (the method is roughly explained in the earlier post):

Ceramic: Raku & Naked Raku Technique

The Ceramic Elective ended this week and after next week the Animation Elective will start. I am already thinking of ideas for the short animation we will be doing next week. I have a feeling that the ceramic assessment didn't go too bad but I should have tried harder for the journal part.


The following ceramic pieces were glazed using the Raku technique or the Naked Raku technique. The difference between the two is that the normal Raku technique leaves a shiny glaze but the Naked Raku leaves a matt glaze which is slightly dull looking. In Raku the glaze is only put on once but in the Naked Raku the glaze has to be put on twice. Another difference is that one can scratch a design into Naked Raku but the outcome will be black and white where in the other Raku  technique other colour glazes are available. The parts with no glaze on them will turn black. Raku is a technique were the ceramic pieces go straight into a bin full of saw dust after being taken out of the kiln. The lid is then closed and the smoke will create Raku pieces. After the ashes are cleaned away the piece is finished. The glazes for Naked Raku will come off like egg-shells.


 Raku Technique (white & turquoise glazes were used):

  

The pictures of the Naked Raku Technique will be on the next post.