One Artwork, Two or more Studios

When your art combines more than one medium we say that it is MIXED MEDIA.   Multiple mediums or materials are used to create the work of art.

We have many studios to choose from in our Art Room.  You can paint, draw, collage, sculpt, print, sew and weave, build structures, mold ceramics and create jewelry.   What would happen if you visit more than one studio with your art?  Let's find out.

A DRAWING but make it FIBERS



Artist Victoria Villasana embroiders, sews, right into photos.  She is "drawing" with her thread.  Artists can use fiber materials like yarn to create various stitched lines.

You can sketch a drawing and then sew running stitches and other embroidery stitches.  Make a stuffy and embellish your fiber arts with fabric markers right onto the cloth.

You could sew lines right into painted paper to make tree branches and grasses.

A PAINTING but make it COLLAGE

Start in the painting studio creating colorfully painted paper (or maybe you have a painting that wasn't what you had envisioned). When your painting is dry, cut it into shapes and glue.  Or glue other papers onto a painting.

a COLLAGE but make it a DRAWING

The artist Henri Matisse called cutting out paper shapes "drawing with scissors".  This artwork by Henri is cut paper shapes.

Could you use your scissors to draw?  Your cutting becomes a drawing as we see in the lines of these paper portraits. Use your scissors to "draw" into paper. 

a PAINTING but make it COLLAGE

Paint paper in the Painting Studio.  Tear and glue painted paper onto a painted sky background and add boats or sea-life.  You now have a Collage.

More PAINTINGS turned into a COLLAGE

Which part is painted which part is a collage?

FIBERS but make it JEWELRY

A PAINTING but make it a SCULPTURE

Painted cardboard can become a sculpture.  or Add painted cardboard shapes to a painting.  Paint on a cardboard relief of a sunshine.

a DRAWING but make it SCULPTURE

Draw onto cardboard or paper.  Twist, fold, bend, twirl, slit the paper or cardboard to make it 3D.

a DRAWING but make it PAINTING

take a drawing and paint in areas of color.  Watercolor is transparent so your black Sharpie will show through the paint.  Try stippling.

a CERAMIC ARTWORK but make it JEWELRY

This work combines drawing and painting.  with a touch of collage.

Will you try to work on your art in more than one studio?

Will you persist in working on your art for more than one class?

Clay Studio --Stretch and Explore

So, you can make a PINCH POT and know a few other ceramic techniques! 

Now What?

  

Stretch and explore those skills

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What if you join two pinch pots together?   Look at the texture lines and marks in the clay!  If your pinch pot is too small pinch more and next time get a bigger piece of clay.

Now let's try that in the opposite direction joining the rims together.  Add several tiny round pieces of clay inside and it will rattle.

don't forget to add ONE NEEDLE HOLE!! when enclosing air in clay

Slip and Score and then smooth where they meet and create a seam.

Add FEET!

Here's a similar pinch pot with a face and 3 coil legs.

Look at the possibilities

You can roll coils to make spiral foot, long or short legs. Or a coil into a ring to make a coiled foot ring.  

Don't forget to score and slip

Maybe you will add texture to your Pinch Pot.

Texture can really add interest to your CLAY art

      

Carefully press a tool into the clay to leave interesting marks, patterns and designs

Compare these two projects.  Sometimes texture can make all the difference

Look at these two fish.  One has texture and pattern and one is smooth.  One is not better than the other.  Which is more interesting to look at?

Here is a similar idea with a different animal cut out of a slab.
Roll out a slab and cut into a circle.  ADD TEXTURE.  fold in sides to make wings.

Fold the top downward to make the head.  Add Details.  Slip and score a beak.

How can you combine another studio with your clay art.  Let's look at how you can make clay pendants for jewelry.

Roll a slab and cut the outline or contour line

Add texture and design.  Lastly don't forget a hole for a string you will add later.

Make two small charms and now you can make earrings.

Don't forget COILS coils are a great technique to use in the Clay Studio slip and score is so important with coils Add texture on your coils and more SLAB ideas Slab tile houses and Name plates.  What do you need to add if you plan to hang this up? Clay portraits.  SLIP and SCORE Troubleshooting Clay Studio. My clay is too soft and is collapsing.  -- Let is sit for a bit and dry to make the clay more firm. I slipped and Scored but my pieces of clay didn't attach----did you use slip?  did you make enough scratches into the clay?  did you push and wiggle the pieces together. My glaze isn't very dark or bright.  --did you use 2 coats? *Size of clay = size of your art *you can write your name with a pencil *demo making a hole