In terms 3 & 4 our task for visual arts was to make a pinata in the form of a hybrid. Our influence was Roberto Benavidez who is a sculptor who specializes in pinatas. Roberto’s influence for his passion comes from ‘The Garden of Earthly delight by
Hieronymus bosh’. This is an ancient oil painting that displays mythical creatures. Our first task was to search for mythical creatures and to sketch some ones we liked. I and Alison then combined the mythical creatures that we wanted to create our design. We decided to combine a bunny, deer and snake. We had to choose a colour palette. Alison and I decided on a cool colour palette. We wanted to choose pastel colours and it was themed blue. We wanted to make the snake tail on our mythical creature look unique so we made it go in a loop to make our creature look more interesting and stand out even though it caused us a lot more work and effort with completing the other stages of the pinata.
For creating our mythical pinata we first had to get inspiration from images of mythical creatures. From there we combined the aspects of each image together to create our own unique creature. We had to decide on a colour scheme for our pinata. Alison and I decided on pastel colours with a cool theme. One of the hardest parts of the project was forming the cardboard into the shape of our mythical creature. From there we had to make it
secure by tapping it and then layering it with gesso. After securing it we were able to start cutting and sticking paper onto it which was the most time-consuming part. Now we had to paint the sides we didn’t stick the paper to a colour that would make our theme (we decided on turquoise). Now we could decorate it with pompoms and fairy lights which made it look pretty and complete the pinata.
Throughout the project, I and Alison worked well and efficiently together to produce a creative/pretty pinata. We were both always ahead of the class and while having fun doing the project we worked efficiently at a high standard.
In the project, we experienced some minor problems along the way. One of the main issues we faced was that when we wanted to start sticker paper on the other side of the pinata, we were missing a few colours because they had run out. Because of this, we had to problem-solve together and we decided to come up with a new colour scheme for the other side, which still looked
pretty. We also come into a few problems when painting the pinata. Since our shape was complicated, there were many small gaps and crevasses we had to paint into which was quite a struggle. But, after finding a small paintbrush we were able to complete painting the pinata.
Yes, we were always ahead and had completed what we needed to do. We had successfully created a mythical creature that turned into a pinata. In a lot of the lessons which we finished early, we were able to help other groups with their pinatas.
Our final pinata turned out to look very nice. With the fairy lights on them, it made them look very mythical and pretty. Our colour scheme seemed to work very well with our creature and the lights.
The pinatas we created were showcased at the illuminative festival. The pinatas we created in project X were an amazing contribution to the Illuminative festival. The pinatas looked amazing in pitch black with the fairy lights on. I felt happy to be showcasing the work that I and Alison had put a lot of effort and time into. The pinatas got a lot of good feedback and many parents said that it was one of the festival’s main highlights.
