Journal Part 3

I finished up the first half of the internship at the Children's Psychiatric Hospital. Will start the second half on August 25... I am sure it will prove to be just as exciting as this semester!

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Journal Part 2

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(The first two are the same one, with a flap that covers part of the page)

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Art Journal 1

As part of my goals for this year, I decided to keep an art journal. I have been very concerned about my emotional wellbeing, especially with some of the trauma that I hear about, and an art journal can be a good way to purge all of this. So here are some of the pages thus far.

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Practicum 3

This is a piece that I did in practicum. It was in response to a client piece where they drew a girl fairy and said that she was going to fly away to a planet that was perfect. It just really hit, me because what was inherent, was that she wanted to fly away...

Art Ed - Scratchboard

Today was the last day of class! YAY! But I will miss all the friends I made in class. This was the last piece that we made and it was to demonstrate the idea of a scratchboard, where you color with oil pastels and then completely cover that with black paint, and scratch the paint away to reveal the colors underneath. I made this butterfly for my sister!

Art Ed - Quilt, Clay Pot, Still Life, Etc.

Well the class is almost over! Shew... These intensive classes are crazy.

This first piece is based on Faith Ringgold who creates painted story quilts, often changing her life magically in the painting. Also in the piece we had to use at least 3 different techniques. I used marbleized paper, printmaking and collage. I really like how the center panel turned out and will eventually cut the quilt border off after the class is over.

Here is my finished clay pot, after glazing. Looks like a Christmas present to me!

And here is a chalk still like that we did today. I focused on the paper flowers in the still life because of the colors.

This piece was done real quickly just to learn about the crayon resist technique. It was really fun to do and I loved applying the watercolors and watching roll off the wax lines I had created.

And this is just a quick card that I made from my leftover quilt pieces. I think that I will make some more cards after I cut up the quilt!

Practicum 2

These don't have much explanation, just some wire pieces I made. The first is a heart, kinda stylized, maybe like bringing two pieces together to make a whole (or two people). And the second is a bouquet of flowers.