Cute Baby or Devil BabyI made this collage just because i kind of needed an idea and I mean if you all haven't noticed, I'm weird as heck. So I was just sitting in the back thinking all day long and this whole thing came to my mind. I mean I really dont know why this was the one thing that stood out to me because so far this whole year, I've done some pretty normal things about like freedom and being captured and its just kind of gets this peaceful feelings but then here is the whole big next project where I just have this baby who eats people. I looked through I dont even know how many magazines I looked through because there wasnt all that many that worked with my piece. I had it started and had the baby glued onto the page but I kept looking in the magazines and later realized that as I went on I had way more ideas. Like the words on my piece, I did not plan for those to be on there in the very beginning but then as I went on they went with the project sooooo well so I had to find a place for them so I did! Just using gesso is kind of a pain just because it dries really fast when its not in a giant plot on your page where you put your brush. Once its on your page though, its difficult to move your pieces just because they end up sticking to the page and rip when trying to move them. But luckily for me when i placed all my pieces, I liked where they were. Magazines were just the worst thing in this project because when starting out, you have one main idea and its how you want it to look but then later it looks different because you get different ideas. I really do love how this piece turned out, I didnt think it would turn out so well but it really did and I was impressed with it. I just wish the page wouldnt have bent so much because of the gesso. I also kind of thought about my niece as I went through this piece just because shes kind of evil herself and she is still pretty young. She likes to torture me when she stays at my house for two weeks and I hate/love it at the same time. I get along with her an it all just kind of makes me think of my sister and I when we were younger.
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I So this piece didnt come out as I wanted it to. I didnt really know how to sew and even when I looked it up online the outcome of me trying was absolutely TERRIBLE! I always kind of loved the little teddy bears people can buy from stores and everything. Some of them are so adorable but its hard to do when you dont know how to sew and neither does your teacher. So I started thinking out of the box to still make a bear that was still cute and decided I can just glue him onto a canvas. Its different because I still made him come out of the canvas making him 3D and not 2D and boring. I do love how it ended up turning out and I find him to be such a cute little bear. In the end I got kind of a different feeling towards the bear, background being this orangish red so I decided to make him a little evil. I put some little horns on him because I thought they would add to the feeling. It took a little longer then I hoped because I had to recut pieces like making him a little bit bigger so I could fit more stuffing inside of him while still being able to hot glue him to the canvas. In the end there were some parts of him that were too full and showed a little bit of stuffing so I just chose to cut more black fabric and glued it right ontop of that certain spot to make it look better.
I really love how he turned out in the end, I did decide to do this so then I could give my niece a Christmas present but I think I'm going to have to get her something else because I love this bear way to much to give him to her. I think hes super cute and just fun to look at with some of my other pieces. I kind of didnt intend my last two projects to go together but in the end they kind of make sense together. My collage I have killer babies that are corrupting a little town and then I have the devil bear so maybe its a sign he is the cause of the babies. Or atleast thats what Im going with because I kind of like how they go together when I think about it that way. I am really happy with the outcome of these last two pieces even though I didnt intend for them to end like this. Most of my projects this year have been way different then my original plan but in the end I think if I kept with my originial plan, I feel like neither would be this good. Like Singleton always says, if something doesnt seem right or if you end up going on a different track with a project just go with it because it may end up better then it would with the other plan. |