Summer Sculpture fun

Here is a progress dump of sculpture stuff from the end of the semester and into the summer.

Here is the cow head in oil clay. I showed this one in an earlier post.
It is larger than my previous cow heads and is meant to replace them.

With Brush on Silicone

Beginnings of mother mold. it will be 3 parts

Home made Chevant melting box so that I dont have to buy a
toaster oven. I am starting to work with hard chevant clay.

Melted Chevant on a screw

Bald mini chevant head on a screw

Looking like Sir Patric Stewart.  I think I will keep working
on him as such. Just practicing detail with the chevant on a
small scale.. no real plans for this.

Random shelf in my studio

Small clay model for my large foam dog I was working on.
It's raining foam!!- I want to continue with this project but it
is so messy!

 

Yep. Those are the highlights. Pretty simple. I have been doing more painting than sculpting this summer but I am playing with the chevant and finishing up the new cow heads.

Senior Capstone Show

The Oklahoma State University BFA Studio art Senior Capstone exhibit is now underway at the Gardiner Gallery in the Bartlet Center at OSU. The artist talks and reception were held this last Thursday March 27th, 2014. The show will be on display until April 4th, 2014 so make sure to go check it out!

I thought I wold come on here and post some photos from the show!
Some of these I did not take I am using some photos that other peoples friends and family took at the show. Others I took with my cell phone. I hope to use a nice camera and take a few more photographs before the show comes down.

Names of people in the Exhibition

On the Door of the Gallery

 

Outside

The Group

The Group

The Group

My artist talk

My Artist talk

Two of my photos behind Wills Sculpture.

The projector set up before it was projected on

Cow wall

By the elevator

Around back of the photos is what's left of the original piece

Underneath

Underneath

  The OSU Gardiner Gallery also posted the video of the exhibition.

Christmas

I had a good Christmas visiting my family this past week. It was a nice break from school work. This week will be back to work on my art.

I wanted to share the cool Christmas present my husband got me!
It is an Original animation cel from All Dogs Go to Heaven 2. I looked up some info on it and I believe this was done in Ireland. It has a paper drawing where you can see blue and pencil lines inked and then it has a xenograph(ed)? plastic cel that has been painted from behind (front to back) It is very cool. I loved the original Don Bluth All Dogs Go to Heaven. I also liked 2 and this is a neat one of a kind present.

I am looking into getting it possibly framed or figuring out the best way to display and store it.

It was a thoughful christmas gift from him I think.

Pardon the US mail box underneath. The paper is actually white but with the flash you can see through it. Here is what the cel looks like on top of the paper.

Here is the paper. If you zoom into the face you can see pencil markings and the halo is blue.

Here is the cel without the paper so you can see it is clear

I thought this was rather cool. This is what the cel looks like from behind. You can see where it was brushed on and kind of how the layers were done.

A close up from the front view. The off outlines are from the paper underneath I didnt straighten it on there.

Another progress dump

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. I have been taking some progress photos but I need to take more. Here is some of what I have been working on lately.

I got the ceramic shell off of the outside of the aluminum head. Then sawed at where it connected to the cup it was poured from and broke it free.

These next few photos are in progress shots of the head being ground down and fixed up. Went from the angle grinder to eventually buffing it to a much shinier finish. I will upload completed photos next time.

close up early on

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after moving up a step or two.. still not finished in this photo but more even

I thought I would upload a more current photo of the cow tile painting.. Not much looks like it has changed here. I just upped the contrast on some parts and started to fix the grass a bit more.

Close up of its fluffy head texture.

I thought I would throw in a photo with my fat hand for size reference (cat scratches and all)

idk why I am posing with the cow..

Started on another set of paintings. This is a cow at the table and a dog at a table. It is very early
along and rough at this stage. I was trying to get the dog to fit in right

worked on making the dog work in this pose.. realized his head was too large. Everything at this point is like
an underpainting. I plan to clean all of this up.

Removed hair from the head. Started fixing eyes.. etc.. I feel like in some aspects I took a couple steps backwards
with this head. It is going to take more hours to get it to a place where I am happy with it.. Got to even back out the nose, fix the eyes and moth and neck

another angle. Eyebrows temporary too

Where's the hair??? haha.. pony tail chopped off at this stage. I will post more photos once I settle on how it will finally look.

Put the cow in its frame today.  Going to paint the frame black most likely.

Tiles played with a bit here... not final arrangement necessarily. Just one possibility.

closer up

another angle. Now to paint it and prepare it for hanging.

Thanks for looking. Updates on ceramics glazing, photos of painted frame, photos of aluminum head, and photos of final clay head soon to follow.