A variety of art pieces

Fuchsia group’s cultural artifacts

 

 My family crest-what a work of art!

Glendinning is Scottish and it comes from a place in the parish of Westerkirk Dumfires, recorded in 1384 as Glendonwyne. The Glendinnings are a sept of the Douglas clan an dhistory goes back to Adam de Glendonwyn who was alive during the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, circa 1286. The crest’s motto is “have faith in Christ” and was worn on the shoulder during battles.

The Heraldic artists created coat of arms. The enjoyed incredible freedom in designing them, however they had certain limits. The objects in the arms, the crest, colours and positions may not be altered, but how each object is rendered privides a wide latitude of design to the artist. The can choose the shape of the shield, the style of helm, and the arrangement to create a well balanced composite design.

My newly painted sculpted masterpiece! I love sunsets, don’t you? We finally got to paint our clay sculptures! It was actually kind of difficult and I highly recommend using small paint brushes for those small sculptures. My sculpture was inspired by Goldsworthy’s natural, environmental work. I love the outdoors and I thought by sculpting mountains, the very place clay comes from, helps to incorporate that connection.

My pencil tree! An artist in the making! (mines the one on the right). We did a series of line drawings on this day beginning with drawing an object from our immediate surroundings. I drew a starbucks coffee cup first while not looking directly at it. Then we had to draw an object by only looking at it once and trying to remember it and drawing it from memory. This one I drew a camera case.  Then we had to draw a piece with volume, I chose the camera case again because it seemed easier to do a square shape with volume rather than a cylinder shape. Before doing all these drawings we looked at a variety of pencils, like 6B, 4B, or HB and tested them out by doing figure 8’s. This was actually kind of hard to do as you have to move your whole arm. It was also kind of hypnotizing because it was the same movement over and over again. I thought my tree and my camera case actually turned out pretty good! What do you think?

Mines the one on the right and the other is the template we followed.

The 2 on the left are my coffee cup without looking while drawing and the camera case from memory. On the right is my volume camera case.

Here is  a picture of my hypnotic figure 8. Good times.

~ by rissaglendinning on February 13, 2008.