Final Project

As I said before, I really enjoy working with the two part finish and I would like to incorporate it into my final piece as well.  For this project I would like a large construction piece that would hang on the wall in my house and maybe span around a corner onto another wall.  I am going to construct open boxes out of broken plexiglas and other random materials and seal it with clear caulk to make it leak proof.  Then I will fill each box with different pieces of metal, plastic or wood and fill it with the pour on finish.  Each box will be a different size and will be connected by wood, pipe or anything I can find and will hang together on the wall to make one big construction piece.  The pour on finish costs about $20 for 32 oz and if I want to use the plexiglas I will have to go buy that as well.  Other then those two things everything else I plan on using to make this project is things found around the house, out in the yard or free scraps of metal.  The pour on finish can get a little smelly but as long as the room is ventilated it should be perfectly safe. 

Construction

For this construction project I wanted to use metals but I had a problem with how I would connect it.  I do not have the means, time or bravery to weld so I needed to come up with some other way.  I have used a two part pour on finish before and love the effect it gave so started thinking up ways to incorporated that into the project.  In the previous project I made a  candle to compliment my painting but did not have a place to put.  I needed a table under the painting where I could put my candles so that is what I decided to make.  I wanted the finish to make up the top of the table but I needed some kind of a barrier to keep it from running all over the place.  Since my parents are moving out of state they are cleaning out the garage and having a garage sale so I had a lot of random thing at my disposal for free.  I found wire metal shelf and some plexiglas but when I went to cut the plexiglas it broke.  Not wanting to spend much money I started intentionally breaking the glass and puzzle-piecing it together on the wire shelf.  I poured my finish over the plexiglas and let it set for a day.  I found some pipes and an old bat and screwed them into the sides of the table top.  Needing one more leg, I wandered around the garage for a while and found some track lighting that was the perfect size and would give a new flare to the table.   My dad knows a guy who recycles and makes doors and screen doors so I went to his shop and looted his trash for scrap metal.  I flipped the table over and arranged the pieces of metal on the bottom side of the table, threw some random bolts, coins, safety pins and other random objects down and poured more finish on the underside of the table to adhere the metal pieces to the bottom of the table.  In the end the track lighting leg will have different color lights in it and should cast some fun shadows off the metal pieces attached to the belly of the table.

Carving

For this carving project I wanted to do something that would go with a painting I did in a previous class and have hanging on a wall in my house.  I had a slab of wax laying around from when I use to make candles so I decided to use that since it would be cheep and easy to carve.  I lined a glass bowl with aluminum foil, placed the wick and poured the melted wax in.  After it dried I had to pry it out a little from the bowl but it eventually popped out.  After I pealed the aluminum foil off it gave an interesting texture so I decided to play off of that a little.  I flipped the whole thing over so the flat part would be the base and just started carving.  Since the painting had mountains in it I began to carve a couple mountings but decided the shape of the wax may not allow for two complete mountains so I decided to make a single peek.  After finishing the carving I decided that it would need some color so I experimented with melting some crayons onto the surface but it was not giving the desired effect so tried to used my acrylic paints and it worked great.  The color showed off the texture on the rocks nicely.

Clay self portrait

What is sculpture?

"Sculpture is a discipline in art that has to do with the 3D expression of ideas."  There is no set material or guidelines to make a sculpture.  To some extent a sculpture depends on the artist's intent.