3D work

Over the last two days I've been making another clay piece. I've been making them larger and more voluminous. I've also have placing shallow depts within the pieces just as the bark has. I would like to make one more of these pieces so I can display these pieces together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So today my clay pieces came out of the glaze firing. I had put a transparent white glaze on my pieces which gives them a clean line and I believe it adds to the piece giving it a purity of growth effect. I'm continuing to create the my next piece with red clay and make them av bit larger as they do shrink a small bit after the kiln.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Clay piece's created from drawings -

 

 

 

This clay piece I had done at an earlier stage of the brief . Here I was looking at layering and dept of spaces within the bark -

 

 

  

3D work - December 6th

Over the last few days I've been making my bark using clay. I want to make a series of these pieces and possible display them grouped together. I have fired and glazed pieces I made from college buff last week with a white glaze and I am using red clay which automatically looks organic. I am making small tester pieces of each type of clay to see what glaze I will use on the finish pieces of bark.  

3D Work

Over the last few weeks I have explored different materials to create my tree bark. I was looking for something that holds natural organic flow so I decided to use expandable foam. I started by shaping chikenwire  in to a bark form and lying it flat as i sprayed the foam. this took a couple of days as i had to wait for the foam to dry to stand it up to complete the bottom roots of the bark.

 

I have started to experiment with hessian material to create the bark. I believe it holds alot of organic qualities. So i decided to cut the material up into sections and then put it in a hot wash with Cd's trapped within  to give shape to the material. I found the hessian to wear, tear and crease in the wash and this is the result I wanted. I stitched the individual pieces of  hessian together and continued to stitch the back of the material throughout to create a sense of dept where the CD's had been placed.

Here are a few images of how i created this piece -

Novemberr 27th - 3D work

Over the last day I've been working from my drawings. I have choosen a black and white enlarged photocopied image of a tree I had taken in the early stages of my brief. The image looks rough and harsh to touch I want to create this texture using clay.  I also want to create volume to make the clay almost look like there a natural rythem and flow to the bark. Here is a few images of the clay pieces i have created so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

23rd November - 3D Work

Over the last two days I've created the bark out of clay. I've had to make it in  2 pieces so to fit the kiln but i might piece back together when they are fired. I've enjoyed working with the clay its easy to manipulate and translate into 3D. i want to continue to work with clay so I'm going to place latex over the bark and when it sets i will then press the clay in to it so to get a true print of the bark. This will then help me inform other works.

Sense My Space (19th October)

Sense My Space (19th October)

I came across two artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen who created a massive paper tree using paper and wood. The sculpture is called White Stag. I love how they have created these powerful sculptures which seems to be over taking the building as well as erupting out of the space.

So i want to translate my drawings into 3D. I have decided to see how i can create the tree bark in as many material that have best show quailitys of the bark. I also want to look at the form of the tree so i have decided to use chickenwire doubled for strenght and possibly build the exterior with organic material such as twigs for texture. I believe other materials such as wax and clay could also capture most qualitys of the bark.

wednesday 14th November

wednesday 14th November

I've been continuing to explore the dept of the spaces within the tree by creating 3D pieces made out of paper and cardboard. I've layered different coloured paper and created a peeling back effect of the bark. these 3d pieces give the viewer and myself an idea of the dept and how the spaces are occupied with the use of layering.

I've came across a very interesting artist called Cara Barer. she uses discarded yellow pages books and manipulates their appearance to create very interesting shapes and changes the nature of the pages. i believe i can use this teqnique to maybe explore dept, in which i believe can move me forward with my investigation of the tree.

Cara Barer - The Books Project

October 2nd (Sense My Space)

October 2nd (Sense My Space)

So today I'm continuing to explore the bark of the tree. I have decided to do a number of analytical drawings to record dept and space as well as light and shade. Over the last few days i have photographed trees in which i have enlarged the images on a printer to A3 size and have tried to piece together each image to recreate the tree. I have found this a challenge as in each photo the light may hit the bark in separate areas and when pieced together can change the overall tone of the image. Possibly drawing into the image might make the tree look more in sync.

September 26th

September 26th

(Creating my Tree)

Today ive begain by reseaching a few artists just to get a better scope on how to create my tree. To see different angles i might take. At this point ive decided to go back out to the environment (forest) and photograph the tree from all angles and from there i am going to enlarge the images and jigsaw piece to piece back together. From there i will then know whether it will look better as a 2d image or a 3d image. I want my images to be in black and white to hold on to the atmosphere im creating so that you can sense my space.....

Environment (woodland) Sense My Space

                                                               Sense My Space


Today i began by thinking of how the five senses describe my environment, so i decided to focus on the sense "touch". To begin with i plan on recording the textures of the bark of the tree. I want to analyze the characteristics of the surface of the bark uses a varity of materials including charcoal, pencil, and ink.