Skull-pture 2

In the end I think that I had made about 18 plaster cast of the cow's vertabrae. I began to think of ideas of how to use the casts to make a sculpture. I didn't want to add anything to the casts because I thought that they looked very beautiful and interesting on their own and that the addition of another material or media would take away from their effect. When looking for inspiraton for this piece I turned to the artist Daphne Wright. I really like her work. She uses casting to create eerie, poignant sculptures of animals such as horses, swans and lambs. I love the feel of her work. The stillness of the  animals really makes an impact on me. These are creatures that should be moving yet they are not, they are still and cold and solitary.

 

For my own sculpture, I wanted the casts to be all linked together, just as all the vertabrae of the spine are linked together. when constructing the sculpture, I first made a wire frame. I then started placing the vertabrae on to the frame. I used bostik and white thread in order to do this. I stuck the vertabrae on in a random way, to create a slight distortion in the piece. I really like how this work turned out. I feel that it represents the spine well. Although it was a time comsuming work to make and involved a lot of different processes, I think that it was well worth it! 

Studies of the twig sculpture

After making the the twig sculpture, I thought that it would be really interesting to use it as a source for creative process. I began to draw the twigs using pencil. I decided to focus in on a section where the twigs crossed over each other and to do this I used a view finder. In order to capture the texture of the twigs I drew using the side of the pencil.

 

I had previously studied the twigs by sticking arrangements of them into my sketchbook and looking at the  way the twigs sat against one another. I then began to tie sets of two twigs together with thread. I like the way that the white of the thread worked with the natural browns and greys of the twigs.

                        

After making the sculpture I began to look atb it and one of the things that interested me most about it was the negative space inbetween the twigs. I made a drawing of this negative space and then experimented with ways of developing it! With the original drawing I cut out the negative space. I then took rubbing of this and experimented with different kinds of paper and media

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