Repainting Sculpture.

Sculpture repainting. ‘Blue Rock’ aka the ‘Golden Hole’ now, thanks to Sophie, it was a funny moment. I decided that I needed to have another sculpture that had the wiggly lines to help fit in with my work, instead of the ‘Orange Sand’ sculpture. The options were to either create another sculpture in time for assessment hand in or repaint one I had already created. I went for the easier option as you can see. I repainted my successfully non-crumbly sculpture in shades of blue. This will help bring my work together with the paintings that will be presented on the wall behind the sculptures and won’t look out of place. I’ll take better pictures when it’s dry and show you them later.

While eating my marshmallows to make me happy (not that I wasn’t not happy), someone said I should put them in my sculptures hole, so I did. Could this possibly be used as a method of bribery? Haha I’m joking of course, or am I?…

My ‘alien’ sculpture has also been a success after its heavy dose of glue coating. It doesn’t crumble when you stoke it anymore, also the base is still a bit iffy. I think it looks quite good, even if I do say so myself. I thought I would see what it would look like on the stand and I reckon if I didn’t have the wiggly line thing going on, I would present this piece. But my god is it heavy! I’ll have to think about what happens to it after assessment, because I’m not sure if I’d manage to get it home in one piece, it will most likely end up up broken on the floor.

Sculpture Workshop.

Sculpture Workshop with Simeon Nelson. Near the start of the week we had to attend a workshop to do with sculpture. Just the word sculpture filled me with dread and before we it even started, I had assured myself it was going to be pointless. In my mind, I have never been a sculptor, ever! It wasn’t something I thought I enjoyed. But by the end of the day, my opinion had completely changed. It was actually so much fun and although quite physical, very fulfilling. The people who didn’t attend definitely missed out. I might become a sculptor as yet. The process didn’t take long to create, it also helped if you worked together. We started by digging out a hole of any shape, in wet sand. We then mixed up sand with plaster, in a ratio of 2 thirds sand to 1 third plaster, and added water, this part could go easily wrong, if there is too little or too much in it. The mixture is then poured into the hole at a consistant pace but not to fast. Then the waiting begins. It was exciting to find out what it would look like and also shaping it ourselves with tools was good too. I hope to do more sometime, possibly smaller ones, because this one was very heavy! And apparently I have a talent for shovelling sand, so if all else fails, you know where to go if you need sand shovelled haha!