RELIEF SCULPTURE with clay!

Here are some progress photos of the process to create the clay relief sculpture....

bare slab with drawn "plan"

use knife to "trace" the plan into the clay...

completed tracing with hand drawn changes

adding clay in small dabs, roughing in the forms...

completed "roughed in" relief sculpture...

almost done! Notice the edges...

detail shot, look at the "high" and "low" areas.....

PLASTER GRADE SHEET

Please print and fill out this form.... Pass it in to Mr. Powers

Boat

My toothpick sculpture consists of over 100 toothpicks and a whole bunch of glue sticks. I used triangles as my geometric shape and those created the frame. The front and back are open to see inside.

-Tyler

Plaster Sculpture Checklist

Here it is!

Inspiration for Plaster Project...

Henri Moore is the artists inspiring our plaster work... His work is all about inter-twining shapes and careful NEGATIVE spaces. Many of his Bronze pieces started as plaster "models", whare he could carve and develop the surface textures....

Here are some photos for ideas:

Plaster Casting Project! Reductive Sculpture...

Something NEW! Here's the idea- mix and pour plaster into a bag, "pose" the bag, when it has set, remove the bag and begin carving to enhance the FORM and SURFACE.
Decide how the piece will stand up, to show GESTURE- or a sense of "life" and "movement". Consider that  the piece should look like it's up on it's "toes"....

Here is the handout and vocab sheet:

Looking At Martin Puryear's Work

Take a look at this video to see him working on and talking about his sculptures. Then, please post a comment discussing your answers to these questions.
Sign the comment using only your first name.

Here is a link to a video interview @ http://video.pbs.org/video/1237794459

QUESTIONS

What do you notice about the FORMs used in his sculptures?

How can you tell that the CRAFT of making the work is important to Puryear? How does it show up in his sculptures?

Here are some examples of his work.....

Do you see the African mask influence here?

Do you see the woven basket influence here?

look close at the white area- see the "mask"?

This one is called "old mole"...

What would this container hold?

The red part is stained wood....

look at the SIZE of this piece...

TOOTHPICK SCULPTURE

Here's an idea for a "quick" design exersize to get you thinking of and using, the elements of 3D design..

modular structure of short straight lines....

modular of triangle and pyramid forms...

modules of spiraling squares...

Never Forget

My theme in this piece is conflict. On September 11th, 2001 the World Trade Center Twin Towers were stuck by terrorism. The u.s. declared war on the terrorist group that had done this, this is a symbol of conflict. In my opinion the best part of this sculpture would be the use of different of graphite. The variety of shades helps accent the main focus (the Twin Towers).

                                                                                                         Tyler

                                                                                                

Janet Echelman's fluid sculptures

Just found out about this sculptor- and her wonderful, ACTIVE sculptures. The pieces are developed from netting she learned from fishermen in India. Her recent work is large and required her to research materials and create software to engineer the work's construction.

See her talk about her work at this site http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.html

And see her website at http://www.echelman.com/ 

"1.26, 2010", A sculpture based on the tsunami of the February, 2010 Chile earthquake. 
The quake shortened the length of a day on earth by 1.26 microseconds.

"Every Beating Second", 2011

Here she is talking about her work at the TED presentation...

More Paper sculpture ideas!

Here is a link to 100 paper sculptors and their work!!! Check it out for ideas...

The link is here http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures/

You'll see work like this:

WELCOME BACK!

Here we go! 

Starting off the 2011 semester of Sculpture-

I'm looking forward to new projects and students creative ideas....
I plan to take advantage of the Blog this semester, so check back in for new posts and student work!