Fishy!

We are currently doing slotted sculptures in class so Ms Sudkamp decided we could use a break. We made clay fishes! I made mine more whale-like to make it cuter and then added scales. I painted the scales in multiple colors to make it colorful. If I did it again I wouldn't paint the mouth black.

Relief Piece

I got very frustrated with this project. 

At first I wanted to make a technically infused arm coming out of a computer piece or book, but the weight would be too heavy to make this into a relief piece, so I reluctantly scrapped the idea.

Then I was going to create a face inside a book and make it like a Facebook obsession piece because I have been doing a concentration on over-obsession. I also played with the idea of a hoarder surrounded by objects.

 But I got frustrated with it and hated the concept so I started over but we were already a few days into the project when I started anew. I ended up trying to make a piece inspired by a homework assignment.

I decided to use air-dry clay to make the sculpt along with silver wire and painted it with acrylic.

I'm satisfied with the final piece but I feel like I could have done better.

Vessel project

Our first project was to make a vessel, which is something that can hold something else. My original idea was to have a sphere turning into butterflies and for the vessel to hold the butterflies but the end result turned out more like a nest. I decided to use copper and silver wire to make this because I thought it would look cooler and work better. I made the shape by weaving the coils in and out. This thing caused a lot of little cuts all over my hands, this project really made me work. I cut out paper butterflies and constantly changed the size of the outward coils. All said and done,I really like the end result.

A couple weeks after we made it we photographed it... Sooo here are a lot of pictures: