Art, art, art!

Happy Tuesday!

This week was an incredibly busy one, what with the culmination of two huge art projects in my sculpture and printmaking classes. The printmaking project involved a series of 5 prints in which one element had to be changed in each print, so I ended up doing a self-portrait print where I carved out different shadows in each one. (Below is the third print in the series). Then for sculpture class we were learning how to make plaster molds, which is a really complicated process! First you build an object out of clay, and then you cover it in a layer of blue plaster and then several layers of regular, white plaster. Once those have hardened, you remove the clay from the inside the mold, which can be a very tedious process… Once that’s been done, you coat the inside of your plaster with a special resistive substance and then pour in a harder type of plaster to create a mold of your original clay object. Once THAT has hardened, you chip away the outer layer of plaster until you reach that original blue layer, which lets you know you’re close! Once that blue layer is chipped away, tah-dah! You have your plaster object. I’ve attached pictures of mine… I did an ear and a hand. It took forever, and one of the fingers had to be glued on after a slight chisel/hammer accident, but all is well!

Tuesday is also soup day in my house, because we get our weekly farm share and we make a soup from all the fresh veggies. Since I’m the only housemate home on Tuesday during the late afternoon, I pick up the veggies from the college center and usually have a friend over to join in the cooking festivities. I wonder what veggies we’ll have this week… last week we enjoyed a soup of squash, carrot, parsnip, sweet potato, purple potato, leek, onion, chard, and celery. Quite delicious, if I do say so myself!