The Turtle Project Continues

As the result of hard work in the second semester I've got the end projects of the classes.
The finished materials for the exhibition:

These compositions are ready to go for the display now, with all the former works: the mask, the print of sticks that shape a palm tree in my case and the clay made turtle.
I should say that the wire sculpture made me less difficulties than the card board, I could convey my ideas more clearly and the outline still imitates the animal in the most desirable way to me.
With the latter one I couldn't say it that was so easy but the result is here of long work and many gluing diffculties..:)

week12

The work is still continued on the turtles.
Finally I finished the wooden one, who got legs and the final shape. Now it can joint the exhibition with its final stage.
The paper-turle is almost already done, I use special fixing lines in it to back up its huge size.
The papers I put into it are functioning like ribbons and keep it on a fixed line not to get moved or damaged by the passé of time.
An other technique I used to fit the animal for the final look was curving and bending the joints and the head itself so doesn't look anymore like a qube, but the characsteristics of a turtle do determine the material;)

Wooden Turtle+The Clay One (in its finished form)

Next I also attach the comparison snap of the two works, where all the similarities of the outline can be observed and the differences of the clay as well, just to see how more to the point and precise material that is in its value.

Wooden Turtle

This is The Skeleton of my 1st wooden-turtle.
He is based on the formerly produced clay version, which enbodies the sea-turtle line troughout the project.
Asssembling such work really needs a lots of patient and precise assemblance of the wooden sticks.
At first one may thinks that this is an easy and fast project but not at all...
to fix and have the right angle how you attach these parts of the whole animal it is really tedious indeed:)
fortunatelly here is also a back-ward function, when one has gone wrong the plastic is cut-able,so the mistakes done by assembing not fitting elements can be solved easily.
The struture of my work is clear I suggest, this shows the outline of the animal and if we wrapped it into a cloth it would look as a well prepared tool for a turtle reproduction, but let it be as abstract as a sceleton can be;))

Week9

THe forecoming 3 lessions will be about 3 different materials, but the same animal form. The turtle.
I've choosen cardboard to work with this week and to learn its features of this material.
The last time when I worked with cardboard, that was in kindergaden..:D not really to say that it was work, rather experiencing...:)
However I tried to create sth that is unique and shows me the most and takes the most out of the material that I require from it.
The shell is pretty much a complicated form of geometrical forms that support the trusses as coloumns of a building.
THe glue-torch was a really useful device in the lession that has eventually enabled me to fic the elements to gether and create a coherent and lucid designed turtle.
Next time is for wire and wooden materials, lets see...:)

Week 8, Exhibition and Cubic forms

In the first half of the lession we got to know with a technique which is based on the same principle as the material should be treated, the only difference was that the overall look should be qubic like, so that the tool I used in a more rough way and did not round down the edges, the result is a smaller turtle, who's waiting for the final lines if not ready in its present form.

In the second part we have visited a gallery dealing with contemporary art, displaying works of Adam's acquaintance. He gave a well structured tour guide on his works and answered our questions readily. The fact that we had the possibility to talk to the artist and not only read/hear about the piece's history and meaning or reinterpretition gave a new load to the exhibition.
Actually the thing that he really meant to communicte to us and feel when we look at the works was a marvellous feeling, I wish I could talkt to all the artists their works...

week 7

The demateralisation and final form of my sea-turtle has taken shape. This lession was about that I finished up and smoothened the lines of its body and joints with the ab-original like, 'tribal' tool, that resemles me so much of ancient times, when pottery and sculpture was done in a not so much different way, earnestly to say in the same:)
To preserve the form of the animal, I needed to take out clay from the inner part of it by using a special wooden handled, metal tool to it, the carver.
For no surprise it has lost from the wight significantly and looked more easy to carry...