"Blue And Pink Tentacles"
created by Grace35075 in Grade 8 at
Robert H. Adams Middle School
from school project "Dale Chihuly Unit: Sculpture & Chalk Drawing"
art id #132192189
Artist Statement (what Grace35075 said about their artwork)
My creation is an explosion of blue, purple, and pink swirls. To make this piece, I drew patterns on circles of plastic before cutting them into swirls and stacking them on a pipe cleaner. The most important technique is to make sure you don't cut the swirl too thin, making it break and be too small for the hole punch. Using different patterns worked well to make the sculpture more full looking. On a scale from 1-10 I'd rate this a 8. I enjoyed it but it's too simple to be a 10.
About this School Project (Dale Chihuly Unit: Sculpture & Chalk Drawing)
Students review the color wheel and learn about the American glass artist Dale Chihuly. Within their selected Color Scheme (warm, cool, analagous, monochromatic, complementary, or analogous) artists draw with Sharpies to create 5 or 6 colorful spirals on recycled plastic- transparency film, laminator plastic (or if using clear plastic bottles- acrylic paint.) Students create individual suncatcher sculptures, group them into color schemes, and finally assemble them into an illuminated Chihuly-style chandelier. The second part of this unit, a chalk drawing develops strategies for creating the illusion of three dimensions on a dark ground, highlights and shadows, elipses and overlapping.
