ROBERT ARNESON

Arneson, another West coast sculptor, is known for his self portraits in ceramic. Look how he uses humor, textures and the "column" format for his work.
* Arneson recorded his struggles with cancer in several of his pieces. Look how he "squished" the clay sculpture to visually describe a sense of force and violent emotion.

See more of his work here...

Heidi Mair's Realistic sculptures

Here is a wonderful sculptor working on the West coast. Look at how she has created several textures in her work to distinguish the anatomy of the head. If you follow this link, she has a wonderful tutorial of sculpting a portrait-

* note how she made several photos of the subject from all angles to give her plenty of reference guides to copy. She also looks at the PROFILE, or EDGES of her work to "check it".

Building the Head!!

Look at how to add the nose, mouth and chin with a coil!

CLAY PORTRAITS- gesture and expression!

Here are the handouts for our new project- CLAY PORTRAITS!


The goal is to create a portrait that conveys a sense of MOVEMENT, using twists, or angles.

Bernini turns Marble into flesh!

The mighty Italian sculptor, Bernini (1598–1680) is known for his dramatic swirling sculptures. Notice how the figures have many diagonals, are twisting and overlapping. Those characteristics create the illusion of movement and drama.

Also, take note how the marble is carved to resemble soft flesh or cloth, that "squishes" and "folds".

See more of his work here...

SARAH SZE and sculpting Fractals...

Sarah Sze creates installations using hundreds of pieces- objects found here and there.... collected for their shape, size, sound or texture. Her work transforms a space into another world...

See more of her work here... and here..

ALEXANDER CALDER and kinetic sculpture...

Calder (1898-1976) is best known for his "Mobiles"......

Sculptures using simple colors, shapes and materials to produce "airy" dynamic structures which MOVE....


See more of his work here....

THE GROUP PROJECT....

This week we are planing our group project..... hoping for a "kinetic" sculpture ( involving movement)...

Materials for us to use include: Wire, aluminum sheet metal, paints, fishing line, glue guns and LOTS OF IMAGINATION!!

Eureka! Let's make a "Mibile" - influenced my Alexander Calder's work....

Here's the handout!

Check out the Student Work Gallery

Follow this link to see the AMAZING artwork produced by the sculpture students!!!!

Austin's "squirt Bottle" is seen here....

WIRE SCULPTURE- a 3D drawing...

Let's make a drawing to describe the MASS and VOLUME of an object... use a variety of wire types and thicknesses. Consider the wire as a "line".

Start the work by creating a series of drawings- recording your investigations of the object you will sculpt.

The completed piece will show the outside FORM, areas of MASS and VOLUME and details that interested you about the object.

Here are the handouts...

Sophie Ryder

A great example of "drawing" with wire.... Sophie's work includes wire drawings, and fully 3D wire sculptures...

Look how she uses the materials (black anealled wire) and responds to it's color, thickness and what the rusted wire looks like too.

When you see her web site, notice the size of her work and what her common imagery is...

See her work here.... (or should I say hare)

Demi's Sculpture

The building technique that worked best for this sculpture would have to be the folds. The folds are what really made the sculpture interesting and pop. It added to the whole sculpture by making it seem 3d and not just 2d like a regular piece of paper with drawing and charcoal on it.