Today I did complete the sticky tape stage of my doll as I had planned, but unfortunately I only had 10 minutes of paper mache time since it took a while to finish with the sticky tape. At least next lesson I will have the whole lesson with the paper mache and hopefully the glue (paper mache) will help me bond the newspaper together more tightly so it is not as floppy!!
Today I spet the whole time with the paper mache and it did bind the newspaper together more firmly, making my doll look lots better. Apart from building up my doll's limbs and muscle more with the paper mache I am practically done!I think I will finish next lesson - I really hope so!!!
I finished my paper mache today in the middle of the lesson but I couldn't start with the painting and the gesso yet as it was still drying. I don't think I'm up to that stage anyway - I have to let Mrs vincent check it first. My friends are nearly finished theirs aswell so I am comparing ours and theirs is really good - so many unique and different poses, but I'm happy with mine.
I showed mrs Vincent my doll today she told me a few places to fix it up but she said I could go on to gesso as soon as that was done. so I built up the arms more, gave it more of a bottom and she cut down my head a bit and I let it dry and will start my gesso next lesson.
This lesson I did start with my gesso - I nearly finished it actually, nearly because i couldn't paint the bottom of my body as my doll is in a lying position and if I painted the whole thing when I placed it on the drying rack it would stick to the newspaper it would be laid on. I will, however, paint the second half next lesson - and I found out today - 1 lesson to late - that the other class covered their doll with paper towel before painting on the gesso but as mrs vincent didn't know this last lesson she told me today that I would have to paint 2 coats of gesso onto my doll.
Today I painted the other half of my doll and left it to dry upside down and with 10 minutes to go my doll was dry so I painted the top half with the second layer of gesso. next lesson I will be finished with gesso and I will start on the paper clay for my face - that should be a challenge well, I'll deal with it next week.
Sure enough - I did finish with the gesso this lesson but there was one small problem - my neck had cracked - on my doll I mean - so Mrs Vincent gave me some PVA glue to fix it (luckily I found out now and not next lesson when it would have likely fallen off!!!) I started with my paper clay face but I didn't get much right - in fact everything I did seemed wrong. Better luck next lesson.
This lesson Mrs vincent helped me with my face although, I thought the nose was a little too big so changed it to a smaller size. I started thinking about what colour I should paint my doll... most people I have talked to said they just painted theirs their favourite colour but I wanted mine to show my history - like mrs vincent said so I decided on light blue as my mum and grandma are both germans and in germany they have beautiful snow!!and my mum and dad both love to travel (they are flight attendants) and their favourite places are where there is snow (apart from our favourite place - Fiji) , I painted half my body light blue this lesson.
I finished painting my body today but I decided it was too dark a blue so I painted over it with a really light blue and it looks much better - much more like snow! I sat with new people today in art and they inspired me - so, I thought - instead of just my doll reading a random book on the floor I could make a beach towel and put her in a bikini and she could be on a holiday to fiji!! much more exciting and I could put her in a bright orange bikini to contrast with the light blue and I could mabye give her a yellow straw hat! wow I am going to sit with them all the time if they inspire me like this.
Today was the last lesson of the term and I didn't know what to do (I didn't know how to make a bikini out of paper towel!) so I made my beach towel instead - I made it out of 6 types of pink, going from a scale of lightest to darkest and gave it wavy edges - I can't wait to finish my doll next term!
Wow, the holidays were great! But am really excited to be getting back into art. I have changed my mind on the skin colour of my doll and wish to paint it purple to contrast with my pink towel (which is now dry and looking fantastic). so I made some purple today, I mixed together purple and white to get a lilac colour - I painted half my doll this lesson but I feel something is lacking in my doll, mabye I need to add more textures. Next lesson I hope to finish painting my doll so I can get into making my bikini.
Today I found my doll completely different to what I had last seen it as - the lilac I had used to paint my doll last lesson had darkened dramatically. I asked Mrs Vincent what I should do as I do not like this colour on my doll and I do not want to paint it again just to change it next lesson! Mrs vincent gave me the idea of adding texture and pattern into my doll by going from a light purple at my head to a dark purple at my feet - a scale. I thought this is a perfect idea but this time I managed to paint everything lighter than I actually wanted it because i know from experience that it will dry much, much darker! I finished painting my doll this lesson - well nearly.
Today I finished painting my doll and it looks great! I started on my bikini today by painting a sheet of paper towel lilac to be analogous with my skin colour. I also made a sun umbrella to be stuck onto my towel to enhance to beach atmosphere. Next lesson I hope to cut out and make my bikini.
I started cutting out my bikini from the purple paper today and I successfully made my bikini top but I am unconvinced with the idea of bikini bottoms so I decided to make a mini skirt to go over the top. I didn't have time to make the skirt this lesson but hopefully next lesson I will have it done.
This lesson I did finish my skirt and I think it looks adorable and I not only used the painted side of the paper towel but the unpainted aswell!! I did this as it made a blotchy tye-dye like pattern which I really love I also think this makes my doll look less plain. For the remainder of the lesson I painted a piece of paper towel the colour of my hair so that next lesson I can cut it up to make hair. I also tried to make (paint) my eyes this lesson, it really didn't workout - better luck next time.
I tried again and again to make eyes this lessonand I just couldn't do it, another unforttunate event that happend was that I could not find my paper towel which I painted blonde. Well, I guess it was for the best as trying to roll u painted paper toel is not such good idea - it will be too hard to roll up. I started making my hat this lesson and I am very pleased with it but I am also nervous as next lesson I will have to hand it in and I still haven't finished my hair or started it really. I am going to take my doll homeand hopefully I will finish it there.
Wow, the holidays were great! But am really excited to be getting back into art. I have changed my mind on the skin colour of my doll and wish to paint it purple to contrast with my pink towel (which is now dry and looking fantastic). so I made some purple today, I mixed together purple and white to get a lilac colour - I painted half my doll this lesson but I feel something is lacking in my doll, mabye I need to add more textures. Next lesson I hope to finish painting my doll so I can get into making my bikini.
Today I found my doll completely different to what I had last seen it as - the lilac I had used to paint my doll last lesson had darkened dramatically. I asked Mrs Vincent what I should do as I do not like this colour on my doll and I do not want to paint it again just to change it next lesson! Mrs vincent gave me the idea of adding texture and pattern into my doll by going from a light purple at my head to a dark purple at my feet - a scale. I thought this is a perfect idea but this time I managed to paint everything lighter than I actually wanted it because i know from experience that it will dry much, much darker! I finished painting my doll this lesson - well nearly.
Today I finished painting my doll and it looks great! I started on my bikini today by painting a sheet of paper towel lilac to be analogous with my skin colour. I also made a sun umbrella to be stuck onto my towel to enhance to beach atmosphere. Next lesson I hope to cut out and make my bikini.
I started cutting out my bikini from the purple paper today and I successfully made my bikini top but I am unconvinced with the idea of bikini bottoms so I decided to make a mini skirt to go over the top. I didn't have time to make the skirt this lesson but hopefully next lesson I will have it done.
This lesson I did finish my skirt and I think it looks adorable and I not only used the painted side of the paper towel but the unpainted aswell!! I did this as it made a blotchy tye-dye like pattern which I really love I also think this makes my doll look less plain. For the remainder of the lesson I painted a piece of paper towel the colour of my hair so that next lesson I can cut it up to make hair. I also tried to make (paint) my eyes this lesson, it really didn't workout - better luck next time.
I tried again and again to make eyes this lessonand I just couldn't do it, another unforttunate event that happend was that I could not find my paper towel which I painted blonde. Well, I guess it was for the best as trying to roll u painted paper toel is not such good idea - it will be too hard to roll up. I started making my hat this lesson and I am very pleased with it but I am also nervous as next lesson I will have to hand it in and I still haven't finished my hair or started it really. I am going to take my doll homeand hopefully I will finish it there.
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