Commenting for the Week of 11/25

I commented on Alexssa and Edie's blogs for this week.

Notebook Sketch Two: 11/25

The contents of my stomach. Too much to even begin to tell. 

Notebook Drawing One: 11/11

This is my sketch of the statue in the atrium/courtyard. I can't think of a person whose face could fill the blank, but it looks like Slenderman right now. 

Link of the Week! - 11/25

Wim Delvoye is a Belgian artist who has a lot of neat stuff worth checking out. His website is really cool cause its set up like a little online game with a city that has different sections of his stuff on different buildings or stores.
http://www.wimdelvoye.be/

11/22

Just paper mâché'd an arm. Just a little more to go!

The initial process is almost done.. 11/21

I've almost finished paper mâché'ing the tops of the skeleton.

Started covering some more up! 11/20

Paper mâché'd the pelvis, spine, some ribs, and the top of the shoulders. 👌

Progress as of 11/19

Paper mâché'd the skull ( for the most part)

Skulllll 💀

I re-did the skull a little and rounded it out to look a little more realistic.

Artist Link of the Week!

Misaki Kawai does some really cute art and it shows in her website. It's easy to navigate and she has some interesting stuff!

http://www.misakikawai.com/

Commenting for the Week - 11/18

I've commented on these blogs:
Autumn
Brittany

The skeleton is done!

I finished the initial framework last week for my Skeleton and it is massive.

Commenting for the Week.. 11/11/13

I commented on Alexssa and Hannah's blogs.

Artist of the Week - 11/11

He's a really cool artist and his website is easy to navigate.

http://www.coryarcangel.com/
Cory Arcangle

Commenting for the week of 11/11/13

I commented on Edie and Kayla's blogs this week.

Make Up!!

I know this doesn't count on my grade but I didn't want my blog to have less than everyone else's. :)

Link for week of 10/28-11/1:
http://www.yhchang.com/
This has a bunch of cool flashing animations, some of which are really cool things like speeches by leaders.

Commenting for the week of 10/28-11/1:
I commented on Belle and Manny's blogs.

Extra Credit

http://kevinfrancisgray.com/works.html

I took a look through his profile and went through the photos of his sculptures. Honestly, most of them have this kind of central theme of their faces being covered or restricted by something. To me, that represents that there are things stifling and repressing us and our visceral senses. The face covered, takes out your sight (perception, way of viewing things), your hearing (being able to truly listen), and your mouth's mobility or even sense to taste (you cannot open your mouth to speak freely, you cannot truly taste the world around you). The colors he tends to pick are very rich and traditional to sculptures (brilliant golds, onyx, marble white, and a resounding gray). The sculptures are typically people (being restricted in some way) and his initial style is resembling that of some more classical sculptors (personally) like Da Vinci (I saw resemblance to Da Vinci's David in the structure and features of his people). These works of art typically arise this feeling of intrigue in me at first, until I delve a little further into what they could truly mean and represent with their brilliance (most notably, the gold ones). Then, they begin to invoke anger and passion (from the synopsis that they represent people being oppressed) or sadness at the same synopsis. All in all, they are visually stunning pieces that really get you thinking and I wish I could know the true meaning of the art and not just my own guess at it and my own feelings.

Skeleton pelvis (and brief summary of it's current stage)

I just made a pelvis with news paper and began shaping it, molding the structure around my own hip width (taking into account that although my skeleton is male, it will also be huge so my width shouldn't really be an issue structurally or anatomically). I just taped it onto the spine about a foot lower than the ribs and have constructed the thigh bone (femur) and two feet, along with having added shoulders and arms (with hands) to the skeleton.

Skeleton ribs and spine

I started off by making the spine with cardboard and attaching the skull to it. Afterwards I constructed a sternum and attached ribs around the sternum and structure. Some ribs need to be stretched out but right now I'm concerned with the initial structure before I can get into any tidying up of the skeleton itself.

Skeleton head

This is the first part of my gargantuan life-size skeleton. I just got together bunches of news paper and catalogs and began forming a ball. From that initial structure, I began adding facial like features and curves that the human skull has. The jaw was the last thing I added and I will be touching up on it when I can paper mâché it.

Commenting for the week....

I just commented on Hayden and Sasha's blogs.

Link of the Week

http://www.blublu.org/sito/drawings/001.html

He's a really cool street artist and his website is awesome, it's super easy to use and he does some cool artwork!

Nov. 5th Assignment

Link: http://www.youramazingplaces.com/40-unusual-and-creative-statue-and-sculpture-art-part-1/

Sculpture: #5

Title: Giant Tap

Location: Tecnopark Winterur, Switzerland

      This piece really caught my attention on the website because I have seen it in person. We were driving by to go to a museum and everyone started peeling to the windows to look at this crazy sculpture. To this day, it still fascinates me how it appears to be structurally unsound and floating. It really captivates my attention because, other than the fact that it looks like it's floating, the faucet is such a brilliant and metallic gold; gold always makes me think of luxury. The placement of the sculpture, I also find interesting, because, although most sculptures and statues are in parks, this was at the edge of a park near a motor freeway (or a street, I don't really remember) leaving it in clear and easy view. The water also captivated my attention because I couldn't fully understand the artist's real motive behind making a faucet.

SHOE PLAN!!! (super duper late)

I threw away my original manuscripts but re-sketched what I had originally intended to make of my shoe. For the most part, I think it went along with the master plan for it but lack of supplies and time made me cut out a few of the cooler parts of my shoe (grass, glass mosaics, etc.). It really expressed the extra metaphors I wanted to convey and I learned a few new cool tricks to use so the project was overall successful. :)