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.