My stained glass window

From Tuesday the 20th of December 2012 until Thursday the 22nd of December, I went on a trip to England together with the other students. On Wednesday, at our stay in England, we visited the Canterbury Cathedral.

The Canterbury Cathedral was built in the middle ages. It was built on the orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Augustine. In these times the cathedrals were built in the Gothic style. Characteristics of Gothic architecture are the ribbed vaults, the pointed arches, the flying buttresses and ... the stained glass windows.

In this assignment I had to design such a window. A stained glass window is made of colourful pieces of glass, which are held together in a tracery. They didn't use big pieces of glass because they weren't able to do this; the glass would simply breake. In the Middle Ages some of the stained glass windows were used to tell a story of the Bible. Due to the fact that a lot of people couldn't read, they used pictures to tell them the stories. However, there were also stained glass windows which were there to allow light to come in and as decoration. My stained glass window doesn't tell a story from the Bible either. After designing my stained glass window, I tried to colour it as colourful as possible, just as in the Gothic style. When I had finished my stained glass window, I could chose to go on with the assignment and make a tracery for my stained glass window, too. I did it, because I had some spare time left. This was easy, I could just pull over my stained glass window and cut the boxes out.

Finally, this is my tracery above my stained glass window.

My skateboard deck

I had to design a skateboard deck. Except that it had to be a skateboard, I was free to draw on it whatever I want. I wanted to draw something in graffity-style, that is why I have tried to draw my name on my skateboard deck in graffity-style. In addition, I wanted to make it really mine, so I decided to put my hobbies in it.

- There is a can with paint and a crown pen. These two things represent that I like art and I enjoy it to draw.
- There is a piano a music note and a music book. These three things represent that I like music and I love to play the piano.
- There are four girls doing gymnastics. These four things represent that I like to sport, most of all gymnastics.
- There is a rabbit. This represents that I like my rabbits, especially to hug with them.

My Keith Haring bike

Keith Haring was born in May 4th, 1958. Later, Keith Haring became an art student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He wanted to bring art to everyone rather than creating art only for museums. He wanted to be able to communicate to the whole world. One day, while riding the subway, Keith noticed some black paper hanging in all the unused advertising space. He ran to a store, bought some white chalk and started drawing. Owning to the fact that he knew he could get in trouble with the police, he had to draw fast. He drew simple figures, which became little characters; people hugging each other, dogs, flying saucers... This is how he invented his style. He died on Febuary the 16th, 1990.

I had to design a two bicycles in the style of Keith Haring. I used mainly the people he had drawn. I didn't wamt to design a normal bike. That's why my first bike is a classical bike, one they had in former times. I wanted to make something else than drawing characters on the wheels, so I make the frame full of little persons.

As my second bike, I didn't want to have a normal bike either. I have chosen to draw an unicycle. It had to be different from my earlier bike, so I couldn't do all those little persons as a frame again. That's why I thought to draw all those little persons in the spokes. They are all doing a different activity.