Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Sculpture II NEW projects UPDATE

The trophies are over with... (they did earn the Sculpture 2ers a lot of points for there hard work though)

Dinah is now making fast food soft sculptures\
Mary is making a head dress out of license plates
Josh is making sparks and vhs furniture
Pamela is making an armature for something
Eric is making wire figures and is plotting against the sculpture pigeons

for Sculpture 2 today I...

MADE A GIANT HOT DOG!

started with wire...

shaped it...
It is 5'7" tall!

next I glued on the batting...

Then added the "skin" once again using hot glue...
FINISHED THE HOT DOG!


... then I started on the bun...

I cut out the pieces and sewed them together. 1 half took and hour and a half to sew!!! D:

I know it doesn't look much like half a hot dog bun right now, but once it's stuffed it'll look much better! :)

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Richard Sweeney


Paper sculptures are so unique when they are produced with the right technique as Richard Sweeney did with his one of a kind paper sculptures. He was born in Huddersfield, England in 1984. He attended Batley School of Art and Design to study sculpture and ended up at Manchester Metropolitan University studying three dimensional design. He concentrated on hands on manipulation of white paper. He combined hand crafted with a computer aided design and CNC manufacturing.

Friday, September 24, 2010


Secound day of work it looks like something right?

Jen Stark

If you are cut images out of paper isn't that arts on craft. Will Jen Stark has made this question hard to answer with here beautiful paper sculptures that she has cut out by hand.

Stark was born in Miami in 1983. Stark attended Maryland Institute College of Art, then studied abroad at the program at the Center for Art and Culture in Aix-en-Provence in France. Finding out when she got to France that art supplies were more expensive there then she thought that they where going to be. She begain to look for something inexpensive she and found construction paper.

Stark works with the most expensive paper that she can find to make her unique works of art. She uses only her eye and her hand to cut out her piece. She feels that if she uses a time saving technology to produce her work it would make the work not have the same meaning.

Extra Credit for the Birthday party

Brenna
April
Martin
Josh
Eric

These were the students that were in the studio when the group came through.

Sculpture II - chop

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

How many people saw the Sculpture II trophies?

Sources say that between 2,300 and 3,000 saw the trophies in person on Sunday alone! Via the internet by way of THIS BLOG that number can be increased by a lot! Art is meant to be seen in person, but in this digital age it only helps to get your work out there for the masses to see.

Pamela's progress on Tree


Well, I've been planning and sanding. It doesn't look like I have gotten very far. But, I feel okay about my progress. I have mapped out the drill holes for 35 "branches" to be placed in my stump. And have chosen the images I will be making in cast paper.

Sculpted Wire



To express some of the elements I will be playing with this year in sculpture, I have found a wire artist that experiments with wire in many of the same ways that I try to. Devin Mack resolves his pieces by experimenting with various wire elements, in a rather formal approach to wire. Devon treats the wire as more of a line element to be manipulated instead of just contour support. By manipulating the type and shape of wire throughout the piece, A stronger visual representation is made.
Some would argue that this element of different colors can weaken the piece. This is true, in a respect, but
not in regards to this style of wire art. Here the wire acts not only as body, but contour as well. Not only is the
shape made manifest by the wire's inner workings, but also through a strange sense of drafted third-dimensionality. This falsehood is a strong part of the work, as it is the same concept applied when drafting a landscape or figure on paper, yet it as been applied to an object that already exist third-dimensionally, giving a strange bit of animation and life to the piece.
This form of wire sculpting is something I am familiar with in my own works. It exhibits a need to express life in the work, almost, as arrogant as it sounds, to
Frankensteinian ends, seeking to express life as solid yet
abstract.
To these ends, Devin Mack has also composed a few short stop motion
films, showing wire alive.

BBFFAC Birthday Party NEEDS STUDENTS TO BE WORKING

HBFFAC turns one year old in two weeks. The “party” is Friday the 24th and I need some activity in the sculpture studio from 1 to 2:30 pm. A person welding and 3 - 4 students in the studio using power tools and making sculpture. The family of the late Hallie Brown Ford will be here and Brad will be touring them through the building during that time. It's imperative that we show them how appreciative we are for their generous donation. Please mark this on your calendars now.

Please let me know if you can make it. I will give you extra credit.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Rat


Here is my rat. Kind of looks like a squirrel right now. 




Friday, September 17, 2010


Chewing gum sir? How about a whole sculpture of pink chewing gum. Well that is what Maurizio Savini did he made sculpture out of fibreglass and pink chewing gum.
Maurizio Savini chilhood was affected by WW II and the fact American soldiers brought chewing gum to Europe. Savini created these pieces to give a glimpes to his memories good or bad.
These scluptures are created from thousands of pieces of pink gum. Savini works with the gum when it is warm and manipulate it with a knife. The important step to makeing this creation work is fixing the sculptures with antibiotic and formaldehude.

TROPHIES ON DISPLAY

Have you seen all our trophies? They are in the Ticket Booth window at the front of the Hallie Brown Ford Art Facility (our new Art Building on the south side facing the plaza.)

I tried to get a picture of some to post, but the sun was shining on the glass, so it didn't turn out well at all.

We ended up making 51 trophies, I believe. It was difficult to count them as we made them.

Pamela

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Mary's Proposal Project

 cutting more feathers.

Sculpture 1 grades

I'd love to post grades for the relief sculptures, but most of you have not posted an image of the COMPLETED piece on this blog.

Progress










It's about 2.5ft long and 1.5ft wide.