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A few more pieces of "art"
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Although a couple are shown finished yet all too unfinished, I don't think I'll be getting my camera out for anything for a while except for the slightly heightened steel tree (currently shown a measly 15' tall) which I'm entering into a small local competition. The first picture shown is of a 6' long titanium paper-style airplane currently installed outside of the sculpture department at my school. I'm putting a wider shot of it on a little lower if you want to see that. The second is of the steel tree (not quite final show worthy). It's 15' tall, about 6' wide and weighs around 120lbs. or so. Not bad if you ask me. The bottom 2/3 of the trunk is made of 3/8" thick steel pipe while the rest is either steel conduit or steel wire of varying gauges. It was all assembled using a MIG welder in about a month. The third is a picture of the (unfinished) cast-iron life-size trike I made. The final pieces are in the trunk of my car but I've only been allowed back in my studio for the past week and I needed to heighten the tree so the trike was put on the back-burner. I made the wheel square because it was due to the administration's lack of get-go that it was unfinished.
This is a 12" wide cast-aluminum dish. The bottom is merely modeled clay and the top is pine needles. All of the castings shown here save one were made using sand resin molds. This one is one and the trike is another.
This, however, was made using a ceramic shell technique. A shape is molded in a certain type of wax and coated in a silica layer (we refer to this as the ceramic). The piece is the put into a kiln to let the wax melt out and simultaneously bake the silica, creating a material that can hold any type of molten metal which is what we then pour into it. See? Simple. This is a small (only about 4.5" tall) self portrait.
This is just a first project. Something easy-peasy. It consisted of heating and bending a (semi-thick) wire and welding it all together. It is a 2D drawing about 6' long and 1' high.
This is a very slightly larger-than-life self portrait using steel plate in a topographical map-fashioned extravaganza and I'm very tired so this is all I'm going to write about this. lol
This final image is just a pretty little shot of my plane and the entrance to the campus. It was funny how many people walked right underneath it on the way to class or what-not and never saw it until one day (3 months later) they would see someone else staring up at it and take a look too.
I'm going to be updating this post with new and improved pictures of my tree. It had to be raised 2.5' to get the little branches out of eye-gouging range. I really wish I had taken a couple of pictures of it while it was up for the show. I used very dramatic lighting and it was the lone object outside of our studio. You'd be surprised what a direct spotlight from straight above can do to a scene.
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Posted by natetrue 42 weeks ago ( 12-Jan-2009 03:56:41 )
Posted by pointlesspark 42 weeks ago ( 13-Jan-2009 03:20:51 )