First Art Post!

Yay!

Well, this is exciting, eh? My first art post! And it’s even going to be about something exciting!

I’m taking Color and Design this semester (WOO!) and it’s a TON of work, but I LOVE it. There are so many things that I love that came from that class. This next project: it’s going to be one of those.

Our assignment is to “design something functional... that is: Distinctive in its use of color, reflects Excellent understanding of color harmony, is Refined and Professional in its exectution, causes the world to STOP and take note of its original and fresh approach to the tradition that it springs from.” And she (Betsey) would prefer that it be made from unconventional material.

“Well. What the heck am I going to do?!” I thought.

Then I remembered that last piece for painting that I did with that fence for that pasta zoo. I soaked noodles then, when they were pliable, I formed them how I wanted them and I let them dry. They hardened and I glued them down. Voila! A fence for the tiniest zoo in the world – or the shortest animals.

Ok. Molded pasta. It has to be colored and well, watered down acrylics just didn’t do the trick.

My mom suggested food coloring and BOOM! I had my method of obtaining color.

In that melee, I also decided for some reason that I have utterly forgotten now, to create a lamp.

At first, I wanted a floor lamp but that notion is simply ridiculous. I opted for a table lamp.

Today, I went to Home Depot and bought everything to make a lamp (except a base – for some STUPID reason, they sell everything to make your own lamp except the base) and I assembled it.

I went to Target and bought some lasagna ( I LOVE the wavy sides!) and some manicotti noodles.

My mom had bought me some food coloring. Concentrated! GEL! (no – I have no idea why that’s so exciting)

So tonight, I used every glass and even some aluminum pans that we have (except the one I cooked dinner in) and filled them with warm water and food coloring.

Blue.

Green.

Pink.

Orange.

Purple.

And I dyed thousands of noodles. No really, thousands. I had three one thousand baggies of noodles (don’t ask) lying around and I used them, so I know.

I dyed rings and the manicotti.

They’re now drying on the entirety of my dining room table.

And – all of our glass and some of our aluminum pans still have food colored water in them. They will for days.

I am making a lamp. It is exciting.

And it is colorful. I’ll post pictures when it’s done.