Reflection on Scale Shift Sculpture

For my scale shift sculpture, I had to think about what I wanted to do.  I knew this was a very interesting project, but I couldn't think of anything that would be interesting.  So, i started thinking small..... very small.  Then, a button just popped into my head.  I thought it would be very interesting to build a button, an every day shirt button, which no one even thinks about, and make it huge and have people realize that yes, buttons do still exist.  No one really pays any attention to a button, and so I thought by choosing a button, it would bring attention to people about buttons, and really make them think about them.  When you see a button on a shirt, you don't think much of it, but if you see a button about 4 and a half feet tall, you really stop to wonder, hmmm, a button.  

So, starting with the process, I knew that I didn't have access to two gigantic pieces of card board, big enough as I wanted, so, I had to build them out of smaller pieces of cardboard.  That was pretty tough because I had to make them the same size, and glue all of them together.  Once I had the two pieces, I created a hand made compass, because there was no compass big enough to make two large circles.  I put the two pieces together, and began to paint it white.  Once it was fully painted white, i decided that it was too bland, so I re-painted it blue so people would be more attracted to it.  

Overall, I thought this project was challenging, yet fun.  I still believe that the shoe project was more of a challenge, but this project had it's difficult points.  For example, building the circles in the middle.  It was difficult to make them all the same size and stand up.  Even thought they ended up not in the middle, I don't think many people noticed.  I got lucky there, but now I know for next time, to be more careful and take my time.  Hopefully i can take these lessons learned from this project, and bring them with me to my next project.  

Reflection on Finished Shoe Sculpture

Finally, after a few weeks of working on my shoe project, it is completed.  This was probably one of the hardest art projects I have ever worked on.  The weak points and strong points of this project, stood the same as the last time i stated them.  Cardboard was very hard to bend and glue in the proper spot.  I spent the majority of the time building the full structure of the shoe, and a small amount of time on the details, such as the color and designs.  One thing  that worked well for me was the strap to my shoe with the velcro.  It turned out just how I wanted it to. 

Some of the other difficulties that i had not mentioned in my previous post were cutting out pieces of colored paper and matching them so they looked presentable and corresponded with the cardboard pieces because I had not made it up to this stage yet.  There are many places on my sculpture where the pieces of colored paper did not match with the cardboard pieces and so it looks a little sloppy.  I tried to fix them up by adding additional pieces or paper to clean it up a bit, which I think helped.  It was truly difficult to cut out the center piece on the toe of the shoe.  That piece was much harder than the other pieces because it bends two ways and it is a different type of piece.  

I believe he structure of the shoe came out good, and the details were overall not too shabby, and I worked hard to make this look realistic.  The picture of the shoe in my last post is very different from my final product.   Overall, I enjoyed this project and I believe it was a good learning experience.  This will definitely help me with my upcoming project.  

 

       

Reflection on shoe sculpture in process

So far, I seem to be a little behind everyone else because I missed a class period and then one day, i forgot my shoe, so I have a little catching up to do.  For the time period I have worked, I have had some struggles, but so far, I'd say it looks on tact to be very similar to the shoe it resembles.  Some of the struggles i have had so far are that it is hard to curve the cardboard the right way.  It takes a while till you get it close to what you want.  I feel as if cutting out the pieces so that they are very similar to the shoe is very hard, and then gluing them in the correct spot.  Something I found that were not as challenging was the drawing of the sculpture before hand.  Besides that, everything else has been in someway a challenge.   

What I now know

A representational sculpture is one that is supposed to represent a real life object.  For example, the sculpture i saw in New York City of the metal trees was a representational sculpture because it was created to look just like a real tree.  An abstract sculpture is a sculpture which was created not to look like anything in particular, but could look like something to different people.  In order to create a found object sculpture, i would see what found objects i had to work with, and think of something in my head which i wanted to create.  I would then start getting pieces together until finally i knew what i was going to do.  

A sculpture I remember

A sculpture i remember seeing were trees made out of metal.  I saw these sculptures at Bryant Park in New York City.  What makes me remember it was how intricate the details to the tree were.  It all so real, except for the fact that it was shining silver, but the branches and trunk of the metal tree were so exact, it was amazing.  

My skills as an artist

I really enjoy all kinds of art, but drawing is my strong point.  I prefer to draw still life and portraits rather than imagining things in my head and then drawing them.  My weakness in art is the use of color.  I prefer to do all my drawings in just pencil, but people always tell me to color them, and I just can't do it so it improves my drawing.  For sculpture, i haven't really had and real experiences with sculpture so i will soon know my strong points and weakness's.  

Why am I taking Intermediate Sculpture?

I took intermediate sculpture because i decided i wanted to try sculpture.  When ever I did art before, it was always drawing and painting, so i decided I would try this.  Also, another thing that drew me to this class was the last project we did in our Art Principles last year, which was a found object sculpture.  I built a roller coaster out of sticks, and i found out how fun it was to build sculptures.