Kiyah

My art piece has tiles and it’s made from concrete. The stone I made has tiles. They are pink, white, and purple and it’s shaped like a bird. Landscaping is a fun project so I’ve enjoyed it a lot. My art is about nature. My piece stands for nature. It is a nature like project that is absolutely floral. And my name is Kiyah .

Waleeda

My design was messed up but my design was flowers made out of glass.
If you make your pieces to small then your concrete design will be messed up.

Alexis

Hey, I'm Lexi my 8th grade art and technology class has designed and built a garden with stepping stones and plants.Our project is mostly based on nature. A lot of the stones have nature themes to them. But others have their own theme. My influence on my concrete stone was from Georgia O'Keeffe. She paints many flowers and that's what my concrete stone looks like. But I put my own twist on it though. I put it off to the side, so it's only half of the flower. Then in the blank area, I placed broken mirror pieces in random. We used concrete, and we either embedded tiles,stencils, glass, or shells.

Rachel

Well our park space/garden is coming along just fine. Everyone has now made their own tile and most are in the ground. Most of every ones has been inspired by nature; feathers and even shells. For the tiles we used concrete and John and Tyler colored their whole tile with a Israel brown dye. Most of all the girls took these tiny tiles and put them in their tiles. I used stain to make a square MC Escher tessellation, some say mine looks like a butterfly but a I think it looks like bat. Escher is my favorite artist- he was a graphic artist and made tessellations and cool optical illusions.To start mine I took a copy of a painting from Escher. Then I traced on the design on the tile.Then I stained mine black and red and i think it can be seen from google earth! I like most every ones tiles but Zach's is my favorite. His is a circle that has footprints embedded on it and its stained blue, red and purple. To make the space we laid cardboard cut outs and laid them down to see what design we wanted to make. Then some teachers donated plants for the garden. We have Hostas, Blacked Eyed Susan's, Irises and Day liles. Were are almost done and i am very happy about that.