Art Bits and Pieces

One of my many classes at RDC is 3D Fundamentals, which is similar to last semester's 2D Fundamentals, but, obviously, about 3-Dimensional things. So we built nano houses and sculptures out of matte board, and one of the later assignments was to create little chair models, out of whatever we so desired.

My first chair was out of a single piece of wire. It was kinda flimsy wire, but it got the job done.

My second piece was made entirely out of candy. It also took me the longest, and I learned a valuable lesson: chocolate doesn't glue together. I tried all sorts of glue- white, carpenters, hot, crazy, none of it worked. What I found worked best was trying to stick them together, then get a blowdryer and melt them together. With the exception of the pretzels being glued together, the entire thing is edible. Although I wouldn't recommend eating it anymore. Who knows how many people have sampled it between making it and now.

The third one didn't work out quite right, for which I am quite disappointed. I made a chair out of clay with the intention of casting it in clear resin and then steampunking it to make it a steampunk underwater chair. Turns out that the resin was old and wouldn't set, and I ended up running out of time. But it initially was going to look like this. Only in clear resin.

The following are some things I was working on in Ceramics. I have since finished them and completed all projects, but I have yet to take pictures of them. So as of right now, we have...

My steamboat teapot...

 One of the projects in Ceramics was a tile project. So basically, I had some black paint, splattered it on a piece of paper, folded the paper in half to make a mirror image, cropped it to a rectangular shape, and then photocopied a bunch of copies to see what it would look like as a repeating tile. I liked how the two looked, so I carved them into clay, a process that I don't care to explain, let's just say it was time consuming. What I've done after that is made a couple boxes using each of the tile patterns. They were pretty awesome.... I will post pictures later!

 One of the last projects we had for drawing was to do a couple self portraits, Chuck Close style. This is one of my (unfinished, at the time) drawings of myself, on a grid. Again, finished pictures will be posted later, as I am quite proud of it.

In the meantime, all my pictures are organized, and I am content.

If you or anyone you know is interested, I do take commissions. Of all sorts... Just let me know! :)

Cheers.