#art 14

Had an evening of hyperfocus and made part of my FE3H fanfic come to life.

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There isn’t much to post here - the critique went by smoothly and interesting. Most of the classes energy and work went into Sculpture 4, so this casting/hybrid project was more of a final tying of ends.

For my specific critique, no one really commented on the cat mobile, which I’m somewhat both glad and disappointed about since I liked it the most. My piece came after the short 10-15 min break so everyone was a little distracted and tired, and thus after one girl laughing at hypothetical “cat sculpture occurrences”, which made the whole class start losing it and laughing, I conclude that the critique ended positively. 

I didn’t get much out of it, to be honest, especially after people losing it. Since many people understood my frustration and disinterest with casting during the process, the talk turned mostly to a general agreement that casting wasn’t necessarily my forte.

The cat theme will stay, casting: probably not (though I have been interested in the use of resin as a material), though we’ll see in the future.

I was originally going to leave the pedestal I chose dirty (this was before I even contemplated making the mobile part) because the plaster casts themselves picked up dust and dirt (from the thrift store + the studio classroom) that I thought they would match better.

The addition of the mobile made me switch to painting the pedestal, because the mobile is nice to me and not dirty in the typical way.

So putting the three cat/chairs on the pedestal was easier to think about than what to do with the three teapots, and I eventually scrapped using two of them since they just didn’t fit into the whole of the sculpture. For one of the teapots, however, I wrapped in bailing wire and kept the bailing wire spool so it kind of levitated like a cat toy (the pictures will make that clearer).

The bailing wire cat toy idea inspired the rest of the project, with the them being somewhat along the lines of “cat toy(s)” and “cats”. I made a mobile with masking tape covered styrofoam cat heads which I’m really am glad I made.

Here is the stuff:

Here a friend in the class had gold spray paint and sprayed one of them which looks nice. Though I like the “naked” masking tape look.

Messy and they both turned out much better than I thought.

I got a little gold teacup and a music box (that works) in the shape of kittens on a chair.

Here is a picture of the assignment. I went to a thrift store and got a wind up music box in the shape of cats on a chair I’m hoping to try to cast....