Safe Keeping Safe

I created this safe with white clay, hard work, and dedication. I had to create 6 equal slabs of clay and put them together with slip and scoring. after I put them together I created the key for the safe to get into it. It has a combination lock to get into it. I created a slit on the top that you can put money in to save up your money. Once I got it all fit together perfectly and let it dry I fired it. After the first fire I sanded the edges and painted it with glaze to make it shiny and look good. I painted multiple layers on it and fired it again. After the final firing I took a picture of it and used photoshop to put on the final touches. This bank will help me save my money to buy a car and other things. (The code is....3458)

Fishy Fish

This adventurous fish escaped form his habitat of the fish bowl and is searching the art room.
I created this clever fish but scoring and slipping two pinch pots together and using other clay to create the eyes fins and other accessories. I painted the fish after firing it and then photoshopped some parts to finalize the fish. This creature is now set to discover the world...until he needs to breather again.

Art Article II

Kyle Davis

October 24, 2013

Pottery and Sculpture 

Art Article

            Recently an old painting, painted by the artist Vincent Van Gogh, has been found in the attic of a Norwegian family that has been sitting in that attic for over 100 years. The old painting is called Sunset at Montmajour and shows the beautiful pastures and sunset of the countryside. They have found that Van Gogh talked about the landscape painting in a paper he wrote. Historians and artists thought he was talking about his famous painting, “The Rocks” in those papers because the two paintings are very alike in the usage of the colors green, blue, and yellow, but also in the way he describes the paintings. “A shower of gold” is how Van Gogh talks about his Sunset painting, but all the researchers thought he was talking about “The Rocks” because it also depicts the colors of a sunset. Another big reason they were mixed up is because of the alike brush strokes in the paintings. He paints rough strokes and doesn't hide his strokes, but embraces them. Many paintings can be determined as his painting by the very specific characteristics of his paintings. This beautiful painting of tress and the pasture was shown in a museum in Dutch City where many people saw this once in a lifetime painting. Many wonder if any other secret paintings are being held anywhere else in the world, none will ever know how many paintings Van Gogh created and how many are known and being held in museums, but I think that makes every painting more special then the last.