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...

how to do real Sculpture from Clay

In the former lession Adam asked us to bring in pictures of animals, that we can take as a pattern to our work and do the job after its shpe. I picked a sea-turtle, which appealed me with its long flappers and qubic head.
For the first hear you may think that it was an easy job, like a snake...:D untill you started off.
The first thing I decided to do was to give the main outline of the shell and the joints.
whuff, what a struggle to stick them to the body, as Adam shwed me I have to scratch the body a litle bit and then work the material together.
Inspite of all this , I got really happy by the end I could attach the flappers and the head.
Clay has one feature that is awful, it gets dry fast and when you dont work at a decent speed your work ends up falling into parts... My turtle waits now to be made a hollow into it and then let's see what the master tells us to do with it...:)

aaand here we gom the masterpiece is READY!

After the work and efforts of the following weeks and lessions, the mask is ready and slipps easily on am face;) surprise-surprise;)
THe color I picked is yellow as a basis and there is green, red and black pattern on it, I didn't pick too many colors, so that it stays simple and doesn't confuse the beholder with an oversophisticated design. By the usage of the water based paint I had to be careful not to put too much on its frahgile surface to aviod loss of material, shape and form. In a worldy approach not to destroy the african face:)
One of the most important and dangerous step I would consoder the removal from the gypsum, so that it doesn't turns under the form and remains behins:S this fortunetelly I could avoide and now looking forward concluding the next work of mine.

THe Mask Production

The great work hast still remained wet in the plastic bag and waited for me as I entered the classroom, I actually doubted that it remains eligeble.
As the work was as great to work with as in the first time, I have finished off with the sophistication of the mask and jumped to the next step.
This was putting gypsum on it, covering all the little holes to avoid bubbles in the scheme.
The next step aftermath, was to put toilett paper with glue into the inmprint of the clay form and cover it with severeal layers of newspaper strips.
This was not really the mosta rtistic thing that needs special design skills and sense of beauty., but it also belongs to creation of a great paper-masche mask.
I actually did not really meet many difficulties in this class, besides, that I left sometimes a little bit too much air between the paper and the form, so I had to remove it by pushing..

Week2, Long way Road

Now when the work got started with the african mask it began more challenging and interresting to do the work with two hands. It's fun sometimes to get everything dirty like in the childhood&to let the hand move freely without fearing that I cover my neighbour in mud..:p
that has happened this week:)
The circular shape I've picked for my mask looks simple, but more difficult when the one starts to work on it.
The most challenging part is the assimetry for me in the whole context, so that the face looks really like a mask and not a sorted, tangled up thing with 3 holes scattered on a half ball...
the tools wre also very different in use, by their shape and the imprint that they left on the clay, surely helpful in the future when I expect to do some more complicated forms that I also can experience the slight difference between them:)
Last but not least the process of making negative-positive and negative imprint again by adjusting different layers into eachother awekens my attention to the result of my working process..
let's see how it continous with the 'masterpiece' of the african tribesmen:))

Lession1, the very Beggining of a new adventure

After the passed 1st semester, I'm looking for a positive and entertaining new, second semester at the Practicum classes as well. I suggest that I got closer to the subjects of photographing and drawing in a way as I could understand the artists themselves why they do some thing as they do.
I expect the same feeling and experience from this class as well, therefore I'm there to get skin-close to the very execution of an 'artistic'object. No matter that it won'T look like Rodin's, but at least I can experience the way as a work is executed and the process it goes under.

After the introductory slide and presentation of Adam, I've really heard many interresting things, such as how different materials should be treated in order to have a fix and stable outfit and not to collapse. That marbe-arms would tear down under their weight when they wouldn't be streteched without support and how bronze fellows behave on their podium:)
The second and more 'action-based' part was also packed with new challenges.
Personally I've never worked with clay and gypsum, so the introductory and very first work of mine was as if I walked first trough the living room at the age of three:)
However the sunny clay beach, with the palmtree and the waves look appealing to me, I hope and do have an open minded approach to reach a more sophisticated level at the execution and to learn other techniques.