Hey guys I'm continuing my trifoil Mandala piece that I should be done with soon.  If you haven't seen my piece yet or how its going to look you can get an idea from the first image.  This is more of an organic piece after I started the mandala.  This sculpture could relate to 3 fish in a fish bowl.  So, I figured my piece should be named out of a line from Pink Floyd's song "Wish you were here."  The title of my piece will be "we're just 3 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl."  Mainly, this piece will be for my girl friend who is a cancer and I'm a Gemini.  I'm starting to scale down the block now and stop by to say hi and look at what I'm doing.

Hi Katie,

When I first started out I wanted something more organic. But I thought it was to much work for one piece and I wouldn't really find a way for it to work as one piece. The scale of this should be decently big I hope. I will probably think for more to add on to it while I am working on it. I want it to look more easy on the eyes. I would have came up with something maybe a little bit more appealing but I did not have the time this weekend to work on it. 

Danielito----Progress

Well I stated my non-representational project as a sketch. At the beginning of the process I doubted about myself and I try to play around with my project to see how everything works about. Then, I saw the “Aesthetic” of my project and I keep working on it. Now, this is how my project looks so far and I’m still adding more shapes. Hope fully by the end of the class tomorrow 3/30/15 I should be done with my project. 

                            Before                           After

                 

My project is inspired by the imagery of what is known as a zen garden. The principle of a zen garden is to create a physical representation of the mind. The abstract concept of the "empty mind" known in Chinese as Wu Wie is the goal of a zen garden. Simplicity is the approach to design in a zen garden.
My project is coming along okay although I do not have any absolute certainty of how its final manifestation will appear. In one direction I want to develop it more simply but sometimes I have more complex ideas to apply as well. It is trying to figure out the balance of too much or too little that I am discovering.

Non-representational Object Update

When I began to work on my non-representational object, the edges of it would look the same or similar to the sketch I have in my sketchbook. The scale of it supposed to be 12 inches by 12 inches by 12 inches in order to make it look 3 dimensional on every side. It would be as formal as in the sketch I drew because it shows the way it's created on the top and on the sides. This non-representational object I'm making is going to be similar to like a monster-like shark head with its mouth open with no teeth and no eyes though I'm going to drill in the big holes in 2 to 3 spots of the object after I finish carving that one part that is not finished yet.  I don't know if I want to paint it after everything's finished; carving and drilling, but it's looking good right now and starting to look like the picture I drew for homework.

Note: I know you can't see the top of it because I took the picture with my IPad then took the picture again with the webcam on the computer so it's bright in the picture that you can't see the top but though you can see a bit of it.

Non-representational Object Update

 

 I began working on my non-representational object from the sketches that I created. The block of plaster that I started with was the exact shape that I needed. It may be slightly bigger than what I anticipated with my drawings, but not by much. I don't think it will throw off the overall scale. My design calls for many other elements aside form this core form. I've thought of the addition of some sort of skin to add texture to the smooth plaster, but I have yet to develop a clear decision of what I want this to look like.

Tribal Designs

This where I got my abstract ideas since I'm a fan on tribal tattoo designs. I'm carving out three designs. Which I was thinking some kind of skin to them, but I'm not sure yet. Maybe somehow to make them organic which I think would be cool too.

For this project I'm planning on doing hexagon shape with geometric shapes inside.  I might possibly cut out the shapes to make a 3D effect.  I might also layer shapes down the sides to make my non-representational temple looking object.  I'm excited to start this project because I've done a subtractive drawling before but never a subtractive sculpture.  

Out of the Blue

These are my three Non-representational drawings I drew out, The first two formal styles I did were pretty munch tribal, but the third piece was organic drawing. I most drew them completely out of my head, but I used reference for the third piece. I admit I was aesthetic for my third piece because I love the beauty of nature.

Form sculpture

I like the jagged and "dangerous" look of this form. it gives an Organic feel of hay or straw or grass that is what makes it non-representational that it resembles many different things not just one specific thing.

The second idea is more of a spiral/ swirly shape like a slide. i would Carve out the for roughly and mainly sand the smoothed edges. 

Hey Katie,
It took me a while to think for something for the project but I think i have something good.

I tried to to come up with an abstract design for my sculpture and I think what I have is pretty good the way different objects are spread all over the place. I think it could have a few textures that could be different. I tried to not make it too representational, and I hope you can't tell what it is from first glance.

~Drew

For my non-representational project, I'll make a weird looking shape of like an old vehicle used back in the years. The first image is Aseptic because it looks like a castle but at the same time it can be presented as just random shapes.  I only have two drawings because I’m still debating what to-do for this project.  I try to use scale with the first and second image of the non-representational project ideas. I might go for the first image because it’s a lil more complex and I would like to deal with something different and difficult to try to challenge myself to do more than what I can do now.  

For my non-representational project, I'll make a weird looking shape of like an old vehicle used back in the years. The shape is organic because it has some form and some style to its visual aspects which makes it interesting. These 3 ideas are showing some visual of a one wheel bike in combination of a similar future like mobile. It has a sense of scale within the inside and the outside of the non-representational project ideas. I would like to choose one of these ideas, not all of them; but I can't decide which one's the best.

Non-representational Sculpture

 I know the requirement was for two images, but this shows a progression of my sketches which I find interesting.

I am interested in the formal shape of swirls or spirals in nature and design. Much of my work reflects this shape. My original thought was to generate the feeling of ocean waves without being literal. As I put my tools to the paper, I began placing spirals in different scenarios and fitting them into different designs. The organic form of snail shells took an appeal, so I took that design and warped it slightly, and placed it into a habitat where it would not be a snail shell.

In the last drawing I included components of many different possible designs. There's pieces of an extension bridge, there's what looks like a crane, but it could also be a sled. I also had the idea of a teapot, which is why I hollowed the top and places the end of the spiral where it could be a spout... that was before adding the crane design. I have no idea what it is, but the aesthetic is interesting and appealing to me.

For my non-representational project, I want to carve several mounds from plaster and arrange them in a bed of plaster shavings. In this formal approach I want to create an aesthetic similar to that of a zen stone garden. The organic nature of my project is more solar or chemical in nature rather than biological or ecological. The criss-crossing of concentric circles in the design will help to pull the composition together as a working whole. I do not believe I will be using any skin layer or alteration of any kind to my material. I may decide upon black leather strips to create my concentric circles. The top picture is a more accurate depiction of my idea. 

I don't know if we have to have blog post today but I'll do one anyway.  For this next project my pun is going to be a hand model.  So, what I'm going to do is cast my hand or carve my hand.  Then, I'll end up putting some small clothes or something around my hand.  I think its a fun concept that will also be fun to create.