Six students taking Ms. Colling’s art class are holding their projects and her three tin foil dragons. Photo by: Hayler Brown
By Hayler Brown
Art teacher Ms. Colling’s second period class has been doing a Halloween project for awhile now. They get to create whatever they would like mainly out of tin foil.
Freshman Trevor Fisher made a snail. His process of making the snail was making two large tinfoil disks and gluing them together. He made the body out of salt dough then he covered it all in glue balls and finally painted it. Fisher’s favorite part of making the snail was using the different materials, and the most challenging was he actually thinking of what to make out of tin foil. If Fisher had the choice to do the class again, he would not because “special effects isn’t really my thing.” Junior Daesha Cole made a bullet injury and a flower. Cole said, “It’s been my favorite project because it was very easy and didn’t take [too] much time. It also was fun to do and I like how my injuries turned out.” Cole said that the hardest part of the project was figuring out how to actually start the wound. How Cole expresses herself is by using her imagination and then actually doing it.
Sophomore Emily Arroyo made a spider. Arroyo explained the process of making a spider. “I had to make two different sized balls of foil and then 8 legs. I then wrapped it all in glue balls. Then I painted it.“ This project was not Arroyo’s favorite project because of how much time it took up. Arroyo’s most challenging part was making all of the glue balls for the spiders legs. Arroyo said her emotions were “pretty happy, it was fun but at the same time it took forever.” Art helps her express herself in a lot of ways. “I can do different things that show who I am and what I love.” Another sophomore, Eric Humphrey made a snake and a cut. His process of making them was “For the snake I took aluminum foil and wrapped it up to look like a cobra. Then [I] covered it in glue balls to make it smooth. Last I painted it black and green. For the cut I took latex, put it on my arm, took a piece of a napkin and twisted it and glued it on the latex. Then I painted it to look real.” This was Humphrey’s favorite project because it was based on Halloween. If he could, he would do the project again. “I learned how to make special effects and it was a lot of fun.” “It helps me express myself through my artwork.”
Art projects were made out of tin foil and cotton and then designed and decorated with paint. Photo by: Hayler Brown
Junior Christian Radican made a Jester Puppet for the celebration at the end of the play, The Princess and the Pea. His most challenging part was making the glue balls or making the tin foil face. Throughout the project he felt frustrated and silly. Radican “got to use [his] favorite things to make art.” He learned how to make art out of aluminum foil. Radican would do the project over again if he could. Freshman Jacey Dare made an animal wound with a fake tooth. Her process was “for the fake wound first I made long strip on cardboard out of glue waited for that to dry then added two rolled up strips of glue covered napkins next I waited for all of that [to] dry then painted it. For the Tooth and claw I had to create the shapes with tin foil and salt dough then paint them.” While she was doing this project she felt calm. If she could do the project again she would because she thought it was very fun, and she learned how to make applications and props. She likes how she can express herself by making whatever she would like. The most challenging part for her was getting the paint to be the correct colors so that it would look real.
Even though Halloween has passed, their art pieces remain with them to always remember and show other people what they did in Ms. Colling’s class.