Earthwork

On Monday I completed an earthwork outside of the Center for the Arts at Towson for my sculpture class. I was initially inspired by some of the works of Andy Goldsworthy but after working on the piece for a short while ideas just started flying through my head and it took on it's own flavor.

Here are some photos and a little map showing the location.

Some of the ideas behind the piece : Relationship between man and nature. Intrusion vs Contribution. Beauty. New Life.

~Adam

Origami Installation

Last week I installed my latest sculpture piece with a partner in one of the stairwells at school. There were somewhere around 100 paper cranes hanging from cables on black thread. It took about 15 hours between the two of us to fold them all (we made about twice as many as we needed) and about 2 hours to install.

Clay People - Figure 4

Looking back, I seem to have forgotten to snap shots of my third figure, oops. Well, you didn't miss anything. I felt like that was my weakest one so far... and my teacher seemed to agree. Awesome.

Anyhow, here's my recently completed 4th figure. I think it's my best yet, but for some reason the teacher doesn't think it's as good as the "B" I got for figure 2. Well, whatever, sculpture is not really my thing.



As for the triptych painting I'm working on, well, I'm still working on it. The final version of it is due next Tuesday by the latest, so I'll have something up here by then. Good news, my friend saw my progress on it over the weekend and he said he really liked it, and he has before said that he doesn't like art. So it got a response from someone that usually doesn't respond, I thought that was pretty cool.

~Adam

Clay People - Figure 2

I just finished my second clay modeled figure. This one looks a lot better than the first, unfortunately the pictures don't really do it justice.


~Adam

Painting : Week 4 and Figure 1 Final

I'm starting to get annoyed with trying to take pictures of my oil paintings. They're so shiny that the flash causes a really bad glare. If anyone knows some kind of trick to get around that I'd love to hear.

Anyway, here's the latest painting I did. Only worked 2.5 hours on this one. It's not as detailed as the last, but adding in an extra color makes the whole process different. Having all the shades of a new color allows you to describe things in a way that doesn't require such fine details. (Though, the pencilman could look better)

Oh, for those who don't know, or if you just don't recognize them, these are sculptures that I did last semester. Check out this post to see pictures.


Also, here's some final views of the full figure I modeled. I ended up with a C. So I guess I'll need to work harder on the next ones. I pretty much had to start from scratch the second day I was working on this because my proportions were so off the first day. Here's what it initially looked like incase you forgot.

That's all for now.
~Adam

Hand and Foot

I finished up the foot model that I showed earlier and I also did a hand model to match. Though, I guess they don't really match since the foot is Anne's and the hand is mine. Anyhow, I got an A on each of them, so I guess that means they're not too bad. Here's some pictures.


~Adam

Clay People

For my human figure class I do a lot of sculpting in clay. First I worked on a life-sized foot.


And next a full figure, about 18" tall. (sorry about the distracting background) Obvioulsy, I can't have a picture of the model for this to compare, but she has about the same build as Anne, for those that know her. So, you can see that it's not all that accurate, but hopefully it will come together more after another session.

Both are works in progress.

~Adam