Final Sculptures of Spring 2015 and Fall 2014

These are the final pictures of most of my projects, I did my senior year. I am very proud of what I was able to accomplish in only two semester! I have improved some much just from the first semester of my senior year to the second semester. Could not thank my sculpture teacher enough for allowing me to develop and grow as an artist. I hope you enjoy my projects as much as I did making them! :)

Texture Process

I am now getting at the texture stage in my pieces, and I don't have much texture experience. The texture on my pieces last semester was I think pretty decent for my first time using it. So, I have been exploring new techniques with texture and trying to look up some people have done. I found this video online which I found to be extremely helpful. It's a video that explains hair on a human which is different to a animals fur but it was defiantly a start.
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ceramic-art-and-artists/ceramic-sculpture/ceramic-sculpture-video-how-to-give-your-figurative-sculpture-a-nice-coif/
I also checked out a book on it from the library which was very interesting. It's titled Textures and Techniques for Porcelain and Ceramics by Sandra L. Brown.  I had different kinds of techniques that I didn't even know of. It showed using raised pastes, acid pastes, gold underlays, and enamels. I'm a little tight on time this semester but I would love to try these out in the future.

Here are some pictures of the different textures on some of my pieces I have done. I like the texture on my other stuff but I feel like the texture on all of them looks the same. Like on the cat, bunny, and hamster. So, for these ones I really wanted to try to make it more disguisable from each other. That way when they are done, I feel that it will give my pieces that touch they need to be even more realistic and believable. My pug turned out really nicely and I did do his texture different from the other ones. Hopefully, this will help. In my opinion, he is probs one of the best dino-pets creatures I have created.

This is the neck of my dog. I wanted to make it seem longer and have more of a wave too it. I spent a couple of hours just on it. I really want to make sure that I got it length and the curves just right to really get the effect that I wanted.

 

Turtle was not that bad with texture but I did have to make all these spikes on the shell. It was very time consuming but I really enjoy the final look.

This is the back of the stretching cat. I did a cat last semester and the texture turned out pretty good. But this time around I really wanted to push it a little more. His hair is shorter, straighter and a little messier.

This is the feathers on the cat. Some of the bottom ones broke off but most of it is still there. The feathers turned out decent but it took me like 5 hours to do both sides. But one of my fellow sculptors suggested that I make it out of one giant piece and carve it out instead. So, the next time I do feathers, I will for sure take him up on that idea.

The Parrot texture took a very long time to do but for feathers, I think it looks pretty good. This is one of the first ones I did and it's in pieces. But I am excited to but it all together to see how it looks.

Sketches

Here are some sketches I did. The ones with numbers are ones that I was considering about doing and the X ones in progress now.

1) Cat and Sinusonasus
2) Parrot and Brachiosaurus
3) Chimpanzee and Pterodactyl
4) Snake and Allosaurus
5) German Shepard and Deinonychus

 

 

6) Turtle and Scelidosaurus

7) Ferret and Amargasaurus

8) Guinea Pig and Opisthocoelicaudia

9) Small bird and Pteranodon

Sculpture Blog round #2

Sculpture Blog round #2

This semester I am taking sculpture VI which means more blogging, yay! So this time around going to be doing more updates on my blog. I'll post sketches of my work and some of the artists I like.

First, I will start with art pieces that I like from a variety of different artists.

Most people already know, but I am in love with pop art. I love the bright colors and fun subject matter. I have made some fun pieces out of tootsie pop sucker wrappers that are very pop art. So it's only fair that the first sculptor I choose is Roy Lichtenstein. I love comics, so I love the classic comic dots on their faces. The hair, face and emotions in these sculptures are very stylized. It's literally straight from a comic book. Head with Blue Shadow, has comic qualities which is 2D while the head in the sculpture is completely 3D. I like the play of combiding them in one sculpture, its very original. Another quality I tend to favor in some sculptures is simplicity. Lichtenstein does a very well job of this in House 1. The sculpture is just a colorful house but I love that about it. If a pop house were to exist it would probably look exactly like that. The angle of the house is interesting it makes it look like it takes up space. Even though the sculpture is of a non-realistic house, the angle makes it look more real. A little contradicting but I like that is like that.

Woman with the Blue Shadow

House 1

Small Explosion

Three Brushstrokes

 

Women Sunlight Moonlight

The second artist I choose was Seward Johnson. My sculpture teacher gave me an abundance of papers to go through with many different artist and Johnson was one of the them. The particular sculpture that was on the paper was Dejeuner Deja Vu. I have taken about 4 different art history classes so by now I know the a lot of the popular pieces throughout the decades. As soon as I saw the paper, I knew I  recognized the image from a previous art history course. This one was different though it was a sculpture version of it. The sculpture was inspired by Manet's Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe. The alikeness of the sculpture to the real thing is stunning. The idea is just so simple but he does it so well. I love that about his work, its not just about the sculpture but the paint, props, and background play a huge role as well. God Bless America is pretty funny. I love that he took the interesting couple in American Gothic and placed them in Chicago. Actually, according to Johnson's site they visited more places then that. Something about that just makes me smile. Maybe it's the fact that it is combiding the classic painting factor with the high class sculpture in the middle of city factor. Both are so different on their own. Even if I don't end of doing any art inspired by Johnson, I still am intrigued by his work.

Day Dream

 Dejeuner Deja Vu

God Bless America

Olympia

The Bedroom

The third one is contemporary artists Marc and Gillie. I found this group online when i was researching artists. They caught my eye because their work is fun and contemporary. I think they are ones that I could get inspiration from. I love the way they are mixing two different things, like a dog and human, into a sculpture. The factor puts them in contemporary category, just like my creatures I make in sculpture. Marc and Gillie say they uses this iconic imagery of dog/human hybrids to celebrate the relationship that exists between man and animal. I like that they have a deeper understanding to them, that is very clear in every single on of them. I also love the fact that they have the human/dog hybrid doing a whole bunch of human activities. If anything I think that is where I want to push my creatures into more naturalistic poses.