This quarter, I made a sculpture made out of clay and paper maché. First, I started with a ball of clay, and sculpted it into a man, but without his right leg. This proved to be a problem because the next time I got around to working on him was a week after I started, so the clay had hardened and dried. I ended up ripping off his first leg and recreating his lower body so that he could stand. Then, I let the clay air dry. About five days later, I started to put on paper maché. I put on around three to four layers on him. Since at that point I really didn’t know where I was going, I decided to paint him rainbow colours with acrylic paint.
The element of art I focused on was shape/form because he's organic, because his entire body has a free, quirky form, and solid, because he his a giant wad of clay with a hard paper maché shell around him.
I took risks with my project because when I first picked up the clay, I didn’t really know what I was doing. He is mostly made of mistakes, as I just threw some wads of clay together and said, “hey, it looks like a something, so I guess it will work”. Once I had my man of clay mistakes, I put paper maché on him. I took a risk here because I have never worked with paper maché before, and I didn’t know how well the paper maché was going to stick to the clay. Another risk was that I didn’t know how well the acrylic paint would work on the paper maché and how well it would mix.
The element of art I focused on was shape/form because he's organic, because his entire body has a free, quirky form, and solid, because he his a giant wad of clay with a hard paper maché shell around him.
I took risks with my project because when I first picked up the clay, I didn’t really know what I was doing. He is mostly made of mistakes, as I just threw some wads of clay together and said, “hey, it looks like a something, so I guess it will work”. Once I had my man of clay mistakes, I put paper maché on him. I took a risk here because I have never worked with paper maché before, and I didn’t know how well the paper maché was going to stick to the clay. Another risk was that I didn’t know how well the acrylic paint would work on the paper maché and how well it would mix.