Art Portfolio

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Art Portfolio

• Cdt. Sermpun Lhamlhak

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Crayons
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Procedure

• Make a tube from paper and plugs it in a modeling
  clay. This tube will serve as a mold for crayon.
• Fill the mold with the prepared mixture of wax
  and pigment.
• Allow crayon to harden.

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Observation

• The pigment of each crayon dropped to the bottom
  of each crayon.
• Blue and green crayons are very colorful, but
  red, yellow, orange, and black crayons are hard
  to see the color.
• The crayons do not stick to paper easily.

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Reflection

• Color pigments of black, red, yellow, and orange
  crayons need to add more in the experiment.

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Making Paper
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Procedure

• Mix cotton pulp and distilled water (and fabric
  dye for color paper) together in a plastic pan.
• Put a window screen into the plastic pan, scoop
  the pulp into it, and lift it up from the
  mixture.
• Place another screen on top of a paper and
  squeeze water from the paper.
• Remove the paper and screens from the window and
  blow them with hot air to make it dry.
• Peel the screens from the paper.

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Observation

• Papers do not look like papers in store.
• Some papers have holes in the papers.
• Some papers are too thick and some papers are too
  thin.
• The surface of paper is not smooth.

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Reflection

• Only one problem that I had during experiment was
  hoe to make the surface smooth. This was the
  problem that made my paper too thick, too thin
  ,and holes.

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Marbling Paper
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Procedure

• Pour the aqueous carageenan solution into the
  plastic tray.
• Drop any color dye on the solution and use
  toothpick to create the style.
• Put the alum-treated sheet of paper on top of the
  solution.
• Remove the printed paper from the solution and
  rinse it by water until the water rinse contains
  no color.

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Observation

• Printed papers are very colorful.
• Two brands of dye that used in this experiment
  had different concentrate that was affect on the
  solution.

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Reflection

• This experiment was fun and easy to do, but it
  was hard to make a good looking paper for me.
• We used two brands of dye. One that looks new and
  better was worse than another one that looks old
  and low quality. The worse one was too
  concentrate for our solution.
• My first one was the best one that I made for
  this experiment because I followed the
  instruction in the book. After that, I tried to
  create my own style and tried to make my name on
  the paper, but it did not work. It turned out to
  something that I did not expect.

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Cyanotype Photography
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Procedure

• In the dark room, a piece of fabric on a foam
  board is rubbed with a mixture of aqueous ferric
  ammonium citrate and aqueous potassium
  ferricyanide.
• Allow the surface of fabric to dry.
• Place the opaque object on top of the fabric that
  is on the foam and then place a piece of glass on
  top of the object.
• Take the set up to sun light, leave it there
  until the surface is pale blue-gray, and then
  disassemble them.
• Rinse the print by water until the water rinse
  contains no color.

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Observation

• The color on the print fabric is not equal.
• The quality of cotton fabric print is better than
  a quality of canvas fabric print.
• The contrast of color in the print depends on the
  opaque object.

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Reflection

• This experiment was not hard to do, but it was
  hard to work in darkness.
• The canvas fabric was very hard to dry.

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Van Dyke Photography

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Procedure

• In the dark room, a piece of fabric on a foam
  board is rubbed with a sensitizer.
• Allow the surface of fabric to dry.
• Place the opaque object on top of the fabric on
  foam and then place a piece of glass on top of
  the object.
• Take the set up to sun light for 2-6 minutes and
  then disassemble them.
• Rinse the print by water about 2-10 minutes,
  immerse the print in a bath of 3 sodium
  thiosulfate for no more than one minute and then
  immerse the print in a 1 solution of sodium
  sulfite in a bath for 1-2 minutes.
• Rinse the print in running water for 10-15
  minutes.

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Observation

• The color on the print fabric is not equal. White
  spots appear on the canvas fabric.
• The quality of cotton fabric print is better than
  a quality of canvas fabric print.

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Reflection

• This experiment was not hard to do, but it was
  hard to work in darkness.
• My pictures did not look good because I could not
  see how much I rubbed the solution on my fabric.
  Some areas in the canvas fabric were not rubbed
  by the solution.
• The canvas fabric was very hard to dry.

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Pinhole Photography
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Procedure

• In room with normal light, two pieces of
  cardboard were cut in the same size and cut a
  window on one.
• In room with red light, a photographic paper was
  cut and placed it between the cardboards. The
  cardboards and a photographic paper was put
  inside the pinhole camera and put the camera in
  the plastic bag.
• Remove the camera from the plastic bag, place the
  camera in front of the object, and then remove
  the shutter tape about 1 minute.
• Place the shutter tape back on the hole.
• In room with red light, the photographic paper
  was taken out from the camera, placed the paper
  face up in the developer, and swirl the solution
  for 2 minutes.

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Procedure

• Place the paper in the stop solution for 10-15
  seconds, place the paper in the fixer solution
  for 1 minute, and then put the paper in the
  plastic tray.
• In room with normal light, the paper was rinsed
  under running water for 5 minutes and then hung
  to dry.

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Observation

• The picture is upside down.
• The picture is too dark or too white. It depends
  on the time of exposure.
• The paper submerged in the developer solution
  causes the dark area in the picture.
• My pictures turn almost completely dark after a
  while.

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Reflection

• Another experiment that worked in darkness. The
  preparation and photo advance were hard because
  of darkness, but the important thing to make the
  good or bad picture was the time that you opened
  the pinhole. First time, I used 3 minutes. It was
  too much. Second time, I used 30 seconds. It was
  not enough. I think about 1 minute is the best.
• My pictures turn almost completely dark after a
  while because I did not rinse enough water on the
  last step.

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Fiber-Reactive Dyes
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Procedure

• Making a beautiful color by mixing the main
  colors red, yellow, and blue.
• Apply the color on the silk that was prepared.
• Apply the color on t-shirt that was rolled.
• Hang it to let it dry.

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Observation

• The color dye expanded very quick and easy on
  silk. It was hard to control the specific area of
  the color dye.

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Reflection

• This experiment was very fun. I like to make a
  color on my t-shirt.
• I think next time professor should tell student
  to bring white t-shirt to this experiment.

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Ceramic
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Procedure

• Throwing clay to build up the shape.
• Put the work in a kiln to make it dry.
• Take the work out of the kiln and glaze it.
• After the glaze step, the work needs to put in
  the kiln again.
• The last step is to smooth the surface of the
  ceramic after take it out from the kiln.

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Observation

• The color of glaze before and after dry is
  different.
• Building up the shape without finding the right
  center cannot make a good looking shape. Usually
  it will end up to be a garbage.
• Using too much glaze causes the extra residue on
  the bottom of the ceramic.

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Reflection

• Before this experiment, I thought making the pot
  is very easy. I changed my mind immediately after
  I tried to make one. The hardest step for me was
  to find the right center before build up the
  shape. I never found the right center by myself
  for the whole experiment.