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.