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.