Art with clay

In this lesson, we worked and molded clay to create different shapes and objects. In order to do so, we had to use water to humidify the clay and be able to shape it to create what we wanted. Firstly I didn't know what to create; however, after molding the clay for some minutes I realized that one of the pieces was getting a shape pretty similar to a rabbit, so I decided to keep going and build a rabbit. Then, I still had time and wanted to create another work. I fought to create a statue, but some parts kept being difficult to mold and I gave up with that idea. Instead of shaping a statue, I mold the clay to shape a guitar, as I have been playing this instrument for a very long time, and tried to highlight the main elements the guitar has. Here you have some pictures to see how it looked like when the molding process finished: 

 

Then, we had to let them dry before painting them, so we left them dry in a shelf for two weeks and afterwards we painted them. I tried to paint the works in different colours; nevertheless, the colour brown of the clay kept appearing, so I decided to paint them in colours that are not the usual ones, but that give a new essence and make them different. So as to paint them, I used different pincels and a little bit of water to remove the colour and change it. For the rabbit, I went with a light blue, which I obtained by mixing the blue painture we had with white, to make it more light. Then, as our group didn't have the colour black, I used a dark blue to use it to paint the noise, mouse and eyes; however, it run a little bit. Then I used the white painture to paint the ears and the tail and give the effect like if the rabbit had also white fur. On the other hand, for the guitar I used different range of blues and purple. The darkest blue was used to represent the strings and neck, the sound hole and the bridge of the guitar, as are ones of the main parts of the guitar that lets it sound. Then, for the body I combined different blues and a little bit of purple to create a unique design and also bright. Afterwards, we let them dry and here you have the final creations: 

              

 

It was my first time molding clay, so I put a lot of effort to create pieces of work of which I could be proud afterwards. I know these are not my best creations, but for being my first time doing this technique I find them quite good. 

Interdisciplinary work

This interdiscilplinary project englobed both arts and craft and music subjects. The aim was to use different techniques from arts and crafts and play some music, using and taking into account all the  elements and aspects studied in the subject, jointly in a performance. Our seminar had the common thread of film genres, in our case we performed some scences with the essence of a thriller, which ended being quite funny. Here you can see the video and some photos of the material used for the arts and craft field. 

It become an amusing project, since it was different to all we had previously done. Nevertheless, it had been quite difficult to get together to rehearse it, which, in the end, we admitted we needed more practice. What is more, it was hard to perform music and visual at the same time in a limited period of time and being only four people. In spite of having some difficulties and setbacks during the action, we kept continuing.