Art Explorer #2-Instant Sculpture with Found Objects

THE DOMINO TOWER

"Art word of the week"- Pattern: "Pattern surrounds us. Pattern refers to the treatment given to a surface, suggest flow, rhythm, motion or movement, suggests regulatiry and reception and can be made with forms, shapes, lines, colors, textures, or symbols that move across a surface in a recurring sequence" (Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Belmont,CA: Delmar, p. 367).
When I started to build this domino tower, the domino pieces kept on falling down after stacking a few of them on top of each other. After a few trial and errors, my tower finally started to come together. During the entire process, I felt extremely nervous and anxious. I also made sure that I stacked each domino piece very carefully on top of the other pieces to make sure my tower would not tumble down.

I decided to build a domino tower because domino is a game that I enjoy to play during my free time. Aside from feeling very nervous while building this tower, I also had a lot of fun and excitement. When the domino tower fell down the first time, I found some excitement in this because this gave me a little bit of an "energy rush". This rush of energy kept me going and motivated me to keep trying to build my structure until it was completed to what I was expecting.

Building this domino tower related to some of my childhood memories because when I was a little girl, around the ages of 4-8, I accompanied my dad to his domino competitions and watched him play all of his games. This art explorer brought back a lot of memories about what I felt like to accompany my dad at his domino competitions and it also helped me to remember how he felt during these competitions, especially when he won his games.

Building structures with found objects related to the field of early childhood education because children participate in activities similar to this blog very often. Children are always using objects such as lego, wooden boxes and cardboard boxes to build structures and sculptures.

Arts Explorer #1-My Creative Inspiration

"art word of the week"- Shade: "adding black to any colour darkens its value and results in a shade. For example, adding black to red makes maroon" (Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art and creative development for young children (6th Ed.). Belmont,CA: Delmar, p. 137).

           The article discusssed in class this week was called "Everyday Creativity." This article talks about the tattoo artists in the prison system in Russia who have never had lessons in painting techniques but they are still able to create large pictures on each others bodies.
           After reading this article in class, I did some of my own personal research on the Russian prisoners and looked at all the different tatoos and the story behind each tattoos. I have a personal fascination with tattoos, especially black and white tattoos. Looking at different tattoos are very inspiring to me because I am amazed at the different ways shades and colours can be used to define a picture and make the tattoo stand out and look real.
            In my personl views, I think tattoo can be very meaningful and significant to the individual. Hearing the stories and reasons behind people's tattoo catches my interest very much because I find it very interesting how an individual can make a mark on their body, that can last a lifetime, to prove how important that particular image is to them.