Our idea for this art project is to collectively make one giant pizza. The group is just everyone sitting at our table and each person will make one slice of pizza with the last piece being made by everyone at the table since there are 7 people and 8 slices. For my piece I will be using pencils to cover the slice since pencils are yellow and so is cheese. I also might cut off the erasers from the pencils and put them on top of the slice to look like little pieces of sausage or something like that.I had to decide what to do for my artists solve problems art piece and I had a bunch of q-tips lying around so I decided I would use those. At first I had thought I could buy a Styrofoam sphere and fill that with q-tips and paint them to look like the Earth but then I decided to make a pizza using this Styrofoam circle. After filling up the whole circle with the q-tips it looked more like a cake rather than a pizza, so there was a change of plans and that is what I did. I chose a material limitation for this because most of the things I do are pencil drawings so I had decided to switch things up a little. The main obstacle was having the patience to put in all of those q-tips. It took over an hour and my hands were definitely hurting a little bit when it was complete. I did have a source of inspiration and then combined it with my own unique idea at a later point. I was unsure as to what I was going to do at first so I was browsing the internet looking for some inspiration and someone had stuck a bunch of q-tips into a Styrofoam ball and put a blue light in the middle of it which looked really cool and gave me the Earth idea. The q-tips on the cake are meant to look like icing and I painted the Styrofoam disc brown to make it look like a chocolate cake. I also had to make sure when I lit the candles that the q-tips would not catch fire and burn down the house.The word I chose for this weeks illustration Friday was the word trouble. When I saw the list of words I wasn't sure what I would draw until I saw the word trouble. Immediately I thought of my friend, as well as classmate, Zane. Attached here is a picture of Zane I took while walking to get some materials he needed for his "Artists solve problems" unit project. I told him to smile for the camera and he proceeded to perform a rude gesture towards the camera. I kept the picture anyway because I thought it may come in handy one day and it is a good thing I did because he fits perfectly into the category of trouble. This was only a very quick sketch I did because I was pressed for time. |