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Again, a few more things from school
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Well, I finally got some more pictures together from school. While last semester I focused mainly on metal I thought this semester I'd broaden my horizons. I decided to dip into stone, glass, wood, wool, and pre-fab materials (am I using pre-fab right?) and just get a taste of a few different things before I tried to settle down. I'm sorry that I never have any in process pics that show you how I do anything but I get too into what I'm doing to stop to get the camera.
Anyway, the first pic up top is a set of granite weapons with glass heads and a glass helmet. Sadly, my school doesn't have the equipment to blow glass so I designed all of the pieces and a very nice glass smith offered to do make them for free if I helped out a little bit. I carved the handles from slabs of granite using my handy-dandy angle grinder and attached the heads to the handles using leather string. I built the pedestal, too. Lol.
The second one up is called "Rock, Paper, Scissors". It's a wooden hand with two line drawings behind it. I'm putting up a couple more pics of the hand below. I'm so proud of it. It's the first thing I ever really carved. I sliced open my actual hand in the process also. Hahaha
Ok. Now the third is my "pre-fab" piece. I took a baby crib and crib mattress and turned it into a little hangman's gallow. It's funny in a dark sort of way. I'll have a couple more pics up of that below, too.
The hand is a little larger than my actual hand so maybe like a major league football player's hand?
I was so happy when a senior in my department (I'm a sophomore) who specializes in lifesize, classical clay figures, complimented me on my fist. I mean, he is just a really nice guy but who cares?
Yeah, the lever actually works. and the mobile plays "Go To Sleep Little Baby". Creepy.....
The hatch I actually cored out from the mattress and sewed back together. It took a while but I was laser focused and nothing was stopping me.
This, no matter how creepy, is the caution sticker that I made and put on the mobile of the crib. Thanks to Photoshop, my stickers were the talk of the town. Everyone wanted one. Haha.
Now, don't get me wrong. I LOVE kids. I just needed to make a piece that people would look at and say, "Woah," and I did it.
This is a little pirate sword that I made out of granite and wood. The "blade" part is actually two pieces of granite that I inlayed(?). I used epoxy to hold the together and covered the red part in epoxy to give it a bit of a matte shine. Idk it's weird to describe and hard to see in pics. I slotted the blade into the handle and attached the two with epoxy also. The paper hat is made from the obituary section. The sword is made to mimic those small wooden pirate swords that kids in cartoons have.
Finally, this is a set of needle felted tools. For those of you that don't know. needle felting is just stabbing wool over and over again with a special needle until it becomes a solid shape. I believe the Fiber majors at my school needle felt around a shape but I started straight with wool. This is the hardest thing that I have to photograph just because it loses so much not being able to actually see it and hold it. All of the tools are the same size as their average, real-life counterparts.
And I said last time that I'd put up another, better pic of the tree and here it is. This is it installed in Roeland Park, Kansas. Roeland Park is such a great place. They hold a competition biannually and select a few sculptures to put in their town for 6 months. It's a really great set-up. I'm entering the weapons into the next round to go in City Hall.
(The picture is courtesy of
www.roelandpark.net)
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