For this project we were given the task of making food out of clay. I had a few ideas, but ultimately chose to make some yummy cupcakes. It was much harder than i had anticipated, but I'm still very pleased with the result. How did I take risks with my art? One risk I took was glazing my final pieces instead of painting them with acrylic. It would have been much easier to paint them with acrylic not only because I'm familiar with this medium, but because glaze is much harder to picture the final with. The hard part about glaze was that the way it looks as you paint it on is completely different than the way it will look when it has been fired. If I'd used acrylic paint it would've been much easier to visualize the final product, but I went with glaze nonetheless. How did I create original art? I used many online sources to find inspiration for this project. I didn't have any pictures of cupcakes that I'd taken, and I was crunched for time, so I used google to find reference pictures. The compiled sources all gave me a different idea of what the cupcakes would be shaped like, and I used my own ideas to decide what they'd look like over all. I also used my own ideas when it came to glazing the cupcakes. I had an idea of what colors (or flavors, I suppose) I wanted to make my cupcakes, and I used those in my final product. I also came up with my own idea for how I wanted to present the cupcakes, in a muffin tin instead of just on a plate. How do I reflect on my art? There were multiple times during this project where I had to completely crush a cupcake and start from scratch. It can be pretty frustrating to think you have it just right, only to step back and see something totally different. Something I wish I had done differently is made the cupcakes more similar in size. They would have turned out more realistic if I'd made a set size for them instead of just eyeballing it. Even though I wasn't totally pleased with this aspect of the project, I'm still really proud of the way my cupcakes turned out. I love how cute and fun they look, and would definitely do this project again!
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SOME info for youAll of this is art from my second art class, which I took the first semester of my sophomore year in high school. This was the year that I realized, "Hey, maybe I'm actually sort of okay at this." After I took Art Two I had pretty much decided in my mind that I wanted to go further with art and explore my abilities. Archives
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