Inspiration:Building process:Finished Product:Reflection:These fish were a learning experience. They came with many difficulties. They for one thing, on the day that I was going to get them fired, had fallen completely apart. The fins came off and everything. What ended up happening was I had to fire every single piece separately twice. For the glaze and the first firing. I then was finally able to use acrylic on the white fish to paint all the splatters. I think this piece really brought the development of my voice and creative thoughts. The piece actually holds some sentimentality with it. The story behind this piece is dealing with yin and yang. Think of the opposites that still have a little of each other in it. If you didn't notice the eyes of the fish represent that. The black eyes on the white and the white eyes on the black. The white fish then has even more representation than that. The reason the fish was painted with splatters of paint was to show my creativity. The black one however is my anxiety and doubts. The white fish was bigger because it shows my growth towards not always getting pulled down by my problems. The anxiety is still there however so thats why the black eyes and fish are still included. This piece definitely didn't come out the way it was planned but I think that is the beauty of it. I was even going to have the white fish on top trying to compress the black showing that sometimes I try to compress my anxiety by focusing on something else. I think I may redo this one in the future in which that can be actually done but I still love the representation this one holds.
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Inspiration:Building:Finished piece:Reflection:This piece was a big challenge for me. This piece was one that I had to really plan out and picture because it had so many pieces. I wanted to make a light in a piece of clay and since I remembered my childhood when I went inside a light house I wanted to recreate it. I had to make the piece in five different pieces then attach them together. The base of the house with all the rocks I built in three pieces then attached them before the clay dried. However, I had to cut holes out that would be big enough to let the cord fit through. It was most nerve recking because clay can shrink and I didn’t want to fire it then not be able to run the cable trough it. When I did get to run it through there was some difficult spots to get through. Then I made the middle part where the light went into. The only problem I had with it was adding the clay on the top of the wire and actually having it level. The wire was the only difficult part to add in. The next thing was making the cone at the top in which was difficult for two reasons. One because I need it to be level with the middle piece. It didn’t come out the greatest but it doesn’t look bad. I know that the other part was trying to build it up like that to make a point. I think I may come back to this piece just to finish off the top. The reason I say that is because the very top was never attached for the thought of wanting it to have the capability of changing the lightbulb if needed. I think if I came back to it I would just add a latch so it could stay on while also being able to open and close.
Building process:Inspiration:Final Product:Reflection:This piece had been mainly done because of my dress. I had made all of the roses for my prom dress but I didn’t like it when pinned to the dress. What I decided to do was make some other fashion piece just so I wouldn’t be wasting what I already made. Looking at some really detailed pieces that weren’t fabric I came up with the outfit. I didn’t want to go big again so I decided to make just a shirt. The piece wasn’t something that was going to happen but I then decided I wanted to experiment with extra fabric. Since I wanted to continue with fashion I decided to make thin sheets of fabric to layer. I have never done much into fashion but since I have been enjoying it I decided to do something different. I decided to layer the fabric around tape to do something different. My first piece I ever did was over wire, the other one was just sewed fabric, so I wanted tape to be a new medium. The roses were also a big experiment that in my opinion I will never do again. They are big and thick so when trying to sew the petals together it was hard. I had tried so many different ways I even at one point broke my needle. I started to go online for example and I was able to sew in layers but it took so long just to make the five flowers. Even though this piece was small and quick it taught me more about fashion. I do know I may never go into fashion but at least I get to experiment with my fashion beauty ideas in this class.
Sketches:Inspiration Dresses:Building Process:Finished piece:Reflection:This piece was a big learning experience. I have found that I probably will never do dress making again. I enjoyed it but it is a lot of work. I had only used a pattern once before and it was something small so this was a big challenge. I had many problems throughout the piece. I wanted to have flowers throughout the dress that was flowed down. The problem I found that the blue roses I made didn’t go with the dress since it already had to different fabrics. So I had to compromise but making small flowers that only went around the waist adding jewels to it. There was also the problem of plettes since I had never done them before. This dress took weeks to get done because of both size and finding time to make it. I wanted to do this piece because when I had intermediate 3-D I made a dress. I wanted o be able to experiment with fashion again but with actual sewing not clay. I also had the challenge of not having glue with the jewels so I had get some type of glue for fabric that could help me apply it. I learned so much from this dress. I learned the difficulty of even making dresses gaining me respect for fashion designers. I also learned things like simplistic fashion isn’t bad.
What did I learn from this piece?: This piece was made as an idea with a group of people to design something for my school. The project opened my mind to seeing projects that could engage a space. The piece I think was hard to even come up with because each person had a different idea of what they wanted to do. I learned that working with multiple people can be somewhat hard. The piece brought me to realize that my pieces don’t have to have new part like the guitar was going to be recycled from the school. The water was going to be very different for me too because the water was going to be pouring out of the guitar down. The piece however made me realize that when putting pieces up I have to think of how will see and what they might do to it. Since it was going to be at a highschool I didn’t want it to be real water flowing down because then students wound mess with it. So I decided to think of it as maybe something like rosin. This piece made me realize that no matter what I don’t have to use the first medium that comes to mind and I should think of more than just making the piece. I also need to think of who will see it and what they might do to it.
Mask in progress:Finished piece:(coming soon)Reflection:I have learned a lot with this piece. I wanted to make a piece that was not very bright or happy. I wanted to use a medium I have never worked with before but it was difficult to really create a design that I knew would fit my face and the look of a bat. I think it has been interesting to build up and in layers to get the right form. I have done much like the before. After starting this piece I have learned I really need to watch proportions. I haven’t enjoyed this piece as much of some of the others. I think I have lost interest in it because I get very picky about the proportion even if they are slightly off. I think if I also had fur I would be much more pleased because I could figure out how I should lay it out. I do plan to come back to this piece maybe later in the semester but for now I need to get away. I learned a lot about making masks and has made me realize I may not want to do it again if it a creature. The only reason I might come back to it to do so is if I were to use a different medium.
Artist Statement: My name is Nikky Sims. I have been going to Skyline for three years. I have had an interest in art ever since I was a little child. I have so much of an interest in art that I plan to go to college for illustration. I also want to minor in writing so hopefully one day I can write my own book with my own illustrations. This semester I want to focus on trying to get even more out of my comfort zone. I want to try doing things that may be darker. The reason I say this is because most of my art is happy and pretty. The other thing I want to focus on is fashion. I want to be able to make dresses, sets/ complete outfits and shirts. The last thing I want to do is experimenting with color. I just want to play with color in a different way like having paint be bleeding.
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