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Link Posted: 3/7/2024 3:20:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By backbencher:
Screen door armor?  Another medium for @Buffman_LT1 to test!  
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How much of this to stop a bullet :O
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All this work just in time for Spring Break!  And then the frantic rush begins!
Link Posted: 3/8/2024 1:30:21 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By guns762:
Update 3/8   Frantic Friday before Spring Break!   Going to be quite a few students missing today.  

Our castle balconies getting laid out.   My artist wants to incorporate a bit of the under arch shape once they go up.   This should help tie the presentation walkway in with the rest of the design.  
https://i.imgur.com/XFxBJL2.jpg

Heart and Lung structure pieces are getting cut out and assembled.   We again discussed how best to make the lungs look like lungs yesterday, and what materials will work best.   I'll probably pick up some fabric for some of it.   We may use that over top of sculpted foam on the sides and ends.   The fabric would be applied over top and allowed extra for expansion and contraction.
https://i.imgur.com/aRZCSkk.jpg  

More progress on the dragon's skin, but I may make a patina change coming up.   We may go with just black between the scales to make them show up a bit more.   Not sure I like how it's blending all together.


The landscaping lights showed up.  They aren't as bright as I was hoping, but they will  work well for lighting up parts of the project.  We may even attach a couple inside the wall of the castle, pointing up, to get a dramatic affect.  
https://i.imgur.com/Tsp4yT6.jpg

We got the ships mast painted.   We should be able to get a second coat on today, then start messing with attaching the sail and rigging.
https://i.imgur.com/gJ0oVrl.jpg

After just using her fingers to get more splash details in our water waves, we experimented with using the round plastic lens as a way to pull the lexan over top and produce a bubble.  We also used the end of a round stone carving handle to push up bubbles in the plastic as it was heated.  Worked pretty well.  
https://i.imgur.com/5YZ27S5.jpg

She will continue to detail each wave, and other students will  continue to find placement on the bows of the ships.   Those already attached will also be detailed.
https://i.imgur.com/HqziVnV.jpg

The beads and bubbles arrived yesterday late.   These will also be applied to the waves, once we have the fist layer of structure and details applied.  We should get similar looks to what we did with the Liberty Ships.  Hopefully  with the lighting it should look pretty cool when done, and a bit more next level from what we've done in the past.
https://i.imgur.com/nq2v3jS.jpg

The woodshop brought in one of our dragon heads and wants us to put down a 1st layer of patina, then they will again add a bit more detail.  
https://i.imgur.com/lpGUjtk.jpg

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Don't use plain black for the spaces between the scales. Use a real dark green, almost black, for that space, and wash it with the oxidized copper green you used to give patina to the scales.
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Who gets to paint the back half of the half-ship once it's mounted to the wall?
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Originally Posted By backbencher:
Who gets to paint the back half of the half-ship once it's mounted to the wall?
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I think the back half should protrude into the classroom on the other side of the wall.

Saw that with a deer one time up north.
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Originally Posted By guns762:  I got an email from one of my painters.     She had been working on the mural of the Viking village, but took time off to get her Junior Duck Stamp entry done.  

It took a little longer than we hoped and she had to finish it and send it off over the break.   She got it mailed off with one day to go.

Here is the painting.

Oil on canvas
https://i.imgur.com/3Lc3t4f.jpeg
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A majestic Karen in the wild about to demand to see the Manager and her husband who has just realized what's about to happen.
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Originally Posted By guns762:
I got an email from one of my painters.     She had been working on the mural of the Viking village, but took time off to get her Junior Duck Stamp entry done.  

It took a little longer than we hoped and she had to finish it and send it off over the break.   She got it mailed off with one day to go.

Here is the painting.

Oil on canvas
https://i.imgur.com/3Lc3t4f.jpeg
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Great work!
Link Posted: 3/17/2024 11:07:20 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By backbencher:  A majestic Karen in the wild about to demand to see the Manager and her husband who has just realized what's about to happen.




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Its good to see real art being practiced in schools.
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Originally Posted By guns762:
Update 2/19

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3/19*
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Originally Posted By guns762:  We also managed to nick one of the light strips going on our castle, so that was bad.

I ordered an extra, so we will be ok.   The student felt so bad she researched how to fix them, and I ordered some splices and we will try them out the next time an oops strikes.

Students will be voting on sweatshirts again today.   They are liking the Ash and Heather Grey.   We will have to see how voting goes here.   We might have to add a third option for sweatshirts and limit the tshirts to 3 colors instead of 4.  
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I voted for Ash.  I figgered you were only offering hoodies this year.
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I think the waves would benefit with some hints of blue paint as water.
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Originally Posted By guns762:


Nope, there will be tshirts as well, just like last year.  
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Originally Posted By guns762:  We also managed to nick one of the light strips going on our castle, so that was bad.

I ordered an extra, so we will be ok.   The student felt so bad she researched how to fix them, and I ordered some splices and we will try them out the next time an oops strikes.

Students will be voting on sweatshirts again today.   They are liking the Ash and Heather Grey.   We will have to see how voting goes here.   We might have to add a third option for sweatshirts and limit the tshirts to 3 colors instead of 4.  


I voted for Ash.  I figgered you were only offering hoodies this year.


Nope, there will be tshirts as well, just like last year.  


Oh, that's good.  We live in radically different climates.  About the only time I put on a sweatshirt is to practice shooting a revolver through it.  
Link Posted: 3/20/2024 8:01:35 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By backbencher:


Oh, that's good.  We live in radically different climates.  About the only time I put on a sweatshirt is to practice shooting a revolver through it.  
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Originally Posted By guns762:
Originally Posted By backbencher:
Originally Posted By guns762:  We also managed to nick one of the light strips going on our castle, so that was bad.

I ordered an extra, so we will be ok.   The student felt so bad she researched how to fix them, and I ordered some splices and we will try them out the next time an oops strikes.

Students will be voting on sweatshirts again today.   They are liking the Ash and Heather Grey.   We will have to see how voting goes here.   We might have to add a third option for sweatshirts and limit the tshirts to 3 colors instead of 4.  


I voted for Ash.  I figgered you were only offering hoodies this year.


Nope, there will be tshirts as well, just like last year.  


Oh, that's good.  We live in radically different climates.  About the only time I put on a sweatshirt is to practice shooting a revolver through it.  

I'd be in for a sweatshirt if there was a no-hood option.

So I buy the T-shirts. My wife has decided she likes them too.
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Originally Posted By guns762:
I also go my sections and numbers requests for next year.  


Requests for my classes are up....    164.    100-120 is about max but I run over that every year.   About half of all students who want to have "Vocational Art", where most of the work on these projects takes place, won't get in.     Kind of a bummer, but it is what it is.  I normally teach 2 sections of Voc Art but we have enough numbers for 4 full sections.
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Perhaps the science lab could work on cloning you?
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What about matte clear coat spray paint?  Would that be stiff enough?

Suspend the sail as brass suggested.

Another thought.  Narrow strips of plexiglass/lexan attached to the top and bottom (horizontal) sail supports.  Make the pieces long enough so they bow outward to put the correct shape into the sail.  You could even cover them with the sail cloth so they weren't visible.  Make a pocket for them to slide into (two layers of sail cloth sewn together with the plastic inside.

Will there be a stash of toilet paper in the boats?  Always hear stories of sailboaters stealing toilet paper.
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Just hang the sail and don't treat it with anything. Just have the custodian direct the HVAC vent at it so it can flap in the breeze.
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Originally Posted By redoubt:  Just hang the sail and don't treat it with anything. Just have the custodian direct the HVAC vent at it so it can flap in the breeze.
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Beat.  
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Shirt ordered thank you for posting these projects and letting us follow along with the progress every year.
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Snagged a shirt and a donation.   Another great year commemorated...
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