Flashback - other mediums

Since I have been busy and out of town, I don't have a lot to post at the moment, so here is one of my flashback posts for now.

One thing I really liked about my art teacher in high school was that he let me try lots of different types of art.  He even had a "crafts" class that did things like stained glass, metal working, and other atypical  mediums like that.  These are  some of the other non-drawing, non-painting pieces of art I made.

I don't even know what this is called now. It is some kind of metal foil - stronger than aluminum foil, of course, but pliable enough to make dents in, so you can do a relief of sorts. 

Below is a print that I  made. It is called screen printing. You make a design, and then you make stencils of each color. All I remember about the stencils was that you peel back this green filmy stuff off of a clear plastic where you want the color to be. Then, you somehow attach (with a chemical) that green filmy stuff to a screen and make all of your prints. The problem is that once you have used the stencil, you destroy it, so you can only do prints once, so you need to make as many as you need in that one time.  Then you go on to the next color and the next, trying to line it all up.   I am not sure why I did this face - it has no particular meaning and it isn't any particular person.

Below is something I made from actual metal. Copper and brass, I think?  We had to make up a design and then cut it out with a little hand saw. You drill the hole and then insert the saw and cut. Of course, I had to pick something complicated, so I broke several saw blades in the process of trying to do the volleyball net.  (I played volleyball in high school and it was the subject of several things I drew at the time).

And this piece below was done with the other teacher I had (Mr. King). He was really into modern art, finding all the meaning in the art work and liked to get deep into what the work was about. I am afraid I had fun with it by making up all kinds of stories about what I thought art meant, and he thought I was being deep, when, in fact, I was just being creative and making fun of it. 

With this piece below, he had me draw up several small sketches of the same picture, emphasizing certain shapes and structure. Then, I did the final piece on this black board. I forget the name of it - scratch board, or ink board. It is covered in black ink and you use a little scraping tool to scratch off what you want, and below it will be white.  You can get some tones by doing lines that are thinner or thicker, but it is mostly just black and white. (think of the activity you did in elementary school where you covered a paper with crayon scribbles, then colored the whole thing black, then scraped off the black to make a picture)

This drawing was another piece that I entered into the art fair (with my cloth drawing) but it didn't win anything. Oh, and the picture I chose to put on here had an emphasis on triangles, so I had to make everything rather triangular.