Masquerade mask- Finally done!

Yay!

You may remember about a month ago I mentioned making a mask? Well here it is!

I used:

• papier mache
• sandpaper
  
• black paint
• modge podge
• tombo glue
• glitter
• silver cording
• 3 ostrich feathers
• 3 small white feathers
• a gold button ;) (alcohol inked silver)
• rhinestones
• dimensional magic
• hot glue gun
  

It was really fun and I am really happy with the results!

To make it, I started by making a base of papier mache. This was done by doing several layers on a volunteers face :) taking it off to dry, then cutting it to the correct shape and doing more layers. After it was dry, I sanded it so it was nice and smooth. Then it was painted black and modge-podged to make it shiny.
Add some decoration, and taa-daaa!

Do you like it?

Em
xx

Catch up

Well i think its been a little too long since I posted a project, so im catching up with a few.



As my first project of the year i did an art title page. It took me ages to work out a design, but i finally got it. I sketched all the tentacles first, then coloured them in with pastel pencils, and gave them a little outline with a normal black pencil. I rubbed out all the smudges in the art letters and outlined them with a thick charcoal border to give them punch. Finally I went around the edges of the page with a bit of brown pastel.





A different view.













I did a bit of fiddling around with this kinda thing. They are suprisingly easy, so i will give you a quick tutorial :)
1. You will need a compass. Draw a full circle the size you want it (keep it in cm).
2. Use the compass point to make holes 1cm apart, horizontally and vertically. You sould be able to see them in the drawing. The holes should be in the circle and out the circle, about the same amount of holes outside the hole as the diameter or radius(I can't remember, so do diameter to be safe :P) of the base circle.
3.make sure you haven't changed the compass size since the base circle. start with one of the holes right next to the center hole. draw with the compass from where it meets with the base circle on one side, to where it meets with the other.
4. Do this with all the holes until your circle looks like mine.

I hope this tut is ok, if it is confusing i will do another one better explained :)


I am about to start on a scrap LO for school(gotta love homeschooling :D ) and i am working on a felting project, and a temari ball with mum, again for school. you can find out about them here.

Thanks for stopping by,
Em
xxoo

Desktop Backgrounds and a photo

Hi everyone,
Here are some desktop backgrounds I made. This first one was done in photoshop.
Click to see full size to put in on your desktop

And this one I did for school, art in english(or english in art if you look at it the other way, :D). I made it in photoshop using my wacom.
The book is Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp and Amelia live in a big green house on Marburg St. This is my interpretation of the description given in the book.

We went to Speers Point yesterday and took some photos. Some galahs were there and this is the best snap I took! The first one is just as I took it, the 2nd one cropped.
Apologies for post length!


Love EM
xxoo
p.s. if you have to stretch the backgrounds to fit your screen, put it on the center setting rather than the stretch setting and put the background colour on white

A big big post

Hey everyone!

Got dust everywhere??? Here it started orange then variated from brown to yellow-brown to hazy to dusty and all over again. Its mostly stopped here, but it is still very windy. I hear the orange dust has made it up to QLD!!! Our fence is brown and a spiderweb on the fly-screen door has gone orange!!!

Anyway, because I am doing China in HSIE, I have made Chinese New Year Decorations.


Chinese lanterns



Fireworks using glitter and some creative shots from Jacob!

(yuck! just went outside, the pool is green is has loads of grass and blown things, the outdoor furniture has got dust all over it and the fence is brown :{ )



Ok, now couple of paintings (not chinese ones)

Next one I painted over a previous painting I did and re-did it :D


Sorry for any inconvenience about page size, and I still have two more things to upload later :P!

Love Em
XXOO

A purple dragon

Hey Everyone!
Well yes, you did hear it right. I have finished making a dragon-a purple one. Her name is Mandy. She has got felt eyes, buttons on her bottom, fancy stiching across her green belly and beautiful silky blue wings.


Here she is hanging up on the wall by thumbtacks(don't fret, the wall is not painted yet!:D). It's a new month, and a new blog background! Hope you like it!
Love you all, Em

Balinese Mat

Hey Everyone!
In school I am doing Bali. This is a meditating mat(this one is not to use, just to make as a peice of art) with a Batik design on it, a popular Indonesian way of designs. This is not made in the way Batik is made, but with similar style and pattern.





Photo-
#1. Painted side of mat
#2. Close-up of a part of the design
#3. Back side of mat(yes, it is made of woven folded sheets of newspaper!)

Hope you like it!
Love Em

The Floods:arty and crafty stuff

Hey Everyone!

Ok this is two more creative things I did for The Floods book.

First is 4 different types of spooky cup-cakes:
(in clockwise order from top left:blood-bomb cakes,hairy cakes, rat tail cakes and mouse ear, crystallised cockroach wings in slime cakes)











I wrote about each in my english book than interpreted what I said for the decorations(eg.the blood-bombs are coloured red -inside and out- and have a lump of jam in the middle)





Next one first needs a bit of explaining. In the flood book #1, the floods had to get rid of their really annoying neighbours, the Dents. Most of them they turned into useful things like fridges and TVs. Today I had to do a quick sketch of each of the Dents then draw what they had become. Next I had to choose one of them and draw it on my wacom. I chose Rambo, the dog, who was black and large and got changed into a sweet little poodle and given to the nice neighbours on the other side of the Floods.







You will probably need to click on that one to see the dogs better.

Love Em

The Floods:arty and crafty stuff

Hey all!

First I better explain about The Floods books(#1 is my english text at the moment). The Floods is a family of wizards and witches. It is a really-funny-but-a-bit-gross book. Here is the link to the floods part on the authors website: http://www.colinthompson.com/floods/index.htm


So anyway, one of the things I got to do was decorate a bit of the house spooky. I made spiders and things out of pompoms, goggle eyes,hot glue and other things like that. The gate (pic. #3) is a gate that the floods made to try and deter people from entering. I made my replica mostly out of cardboard and paint.











all photos copyright by EMS 2009

In the next post will be two more of my floods creations.
Love Em

Felted guinea pig

Hey Everyone!

this is a guinea pig I felted (same thing as the teddy bears) for english. I also had to write a procedure on how to do it.

Hope you like it!

Love Em

Half Walrus suit drawing

Hey Everyone!


I did this one a while ago but didn't get round to posting it. I had half a picture of a girl in a walrus suit and had to draw the other half.




Lol! I hope you like it!
Love Em

Guinea pig Drawing

Hey Everyone!

My art for this week was from my english text. The text had guinea pigs in it so I had to draw a guinea pig. Hope you like it!

Love em

Stroop Test

Hey!
this is a very cool thing i did in science the other day.
try and read out the colour of the word, not what it says

BLUE RED GREEN ORANGE

YELLOW PURPLE BLACK BROWN

BROWN RED ORANGE BLUE

YELLOW BROWN PURPLE GREEN

RED BLACK BLUE GREEN ORANGE


it's hard, isn't it?!?!?!


now try this one


DOG CAT TABLE DOOR WINDOW PENCIL

GROUND LIGHT RABBIT RADIO TABLE

DOOR CAT DOG WINDOW RABBIT CASE

TABLE PENCIL RABBIT RADIO WINDOW

CASE DOG GROUND TABLE CAT LIGHT


that one is a bit easier.
have fun!!!!


em

Still life-Apples

Hey everyone!


This one was part of schoolwork. I had to make up my own bowl of fruit(I chose a plate in the end :P) he drawing is on the top and the photo is on the bottom.





Hope you like it!