The next project on my plate is to make a clay hand modeled after my own. This sculpture needs to be as realistic as possible and I need to put some thought in the position of the hand. For the positioning of the hand I'm thinking about trying to place the fingers in a similar position to the way a spider stands when threatened. Mimicking the way a spider holds its front two limbs up to tell you to back off or they are going to kick some ass. I pumped out a quick sketch to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about. This is going to be a sweet paper weight.

The functional ceramics project was fun. It was more challenging than I thought it was going to be. The eye cup in my last post ended up not happening. I was making the cup using the coil method and it proved to be a lot flimsier than I thought so I pinched one side together to make a handle and called it good. I made a cylinder shaped pencil holder using the slab technique, it proved to be muck sturdier then my cup so I slapped the eye on the side of it. The eye turned out nothing like I originally envisioned it but it was fun messing around with some different texture ideas. The last piece I made was a leaf shaped incense burner. Using the pinch pot method, I started playing around with some clay and at one point thought "this looks like a leaf" and that's how the leaf incense burner was born. I would post some pics but I sent the pieces of to the burner before I took pics.

My next assignment is to make three functional objects out of ceramic. Also to make a model using the program Sketchup. Here is the model I came up with for my eyeball cup. For the eye cup I am going to use the coil technique. For the other two pieces I am thinking of doing a candle holder and a incense burner. I am going to use the slab technique for the candle holder and the pinch pot technique for the incense burner.

        Creating the snake proved to be a much greater challenge then I anticipated. The first couple attempts went horribly wrong. I ended up using a toy light saber to coil the wire around. This worked very well because the light saber tapered from base to point which allowed me to adjust the size of the body of the snake. To create the head I coiled the wire around a toy dinosaurs head. Next came the task of the markings. Using a thin tin wire that was very easy to manipulate, I weaved diamond shape markings down the back of the snake. To wrap up the project I used copper wire to give it eyes, mouth, and a tongue. Over all I had a great time creating this piece and I am happy with the way it turned out. 

       

My first project for 3-D studio is to create a wire sculpture. I looked around the house for something to create but just wasn't getting any vibes so I made a sketch. I came up with a snake coiled around a tree stump. I used rebar to make the base shape of the stump then rapped it in bare copper speaker wire. I plan on making the body of the snake out of black rebar tie wire then creating the markings along its back with both tin and copper wire.

Hello! This blog is for my 3-D studio class at MCC. This post is just me getting familiar with it.