Styrogami

I was not here the first day and did not do the styrogami project.

Inspired Artist

The artist that inspires me is Bob Potts. He is a sculpture artist who hand-builds kinetic structures that move with the elegance of a flying bird and a swimming fish. He was one of the creators of the M.A.D Gallery, which now has 2 locations, in Geneva, Switzerland and Taipei, Taiwan. The 72 year old is based out of an 1850's barn in New York State and hand-builds his amazing sculptures on his own. What inspires me is how he makes these mesmerizing pieces of art on his own. They are hypnotic to watch and very interesting to see the engineering behind them.

http://www.mbandf.com/mad-gallery/creators/bob-potts/

Relief

The hardest mini lesson was the cardboard relief because of the way it is structured. If you make a mistake, you can't fix it since you can't reform the paper.

I develop art making skills: clay was a material that I had briefly worked with in 3d, but never in 2d. Making a flat panel out of clay was something that I had no experience with and found interesting. One major thing I learned was that as clay hardened, it got easier to carve details into. When sculpting, you try to keep the clay as soft as possible to stop it cracking.

I take risks: while working on my second mini project, I tried to add texture to my fire by adding more layers. I knew that once I cut the cardboard, there was no way to put it back, but there was also no other way to see what it would look like.  I tried it, and found that I didn't like how our looked, so I tried adding more layers. Unfortunately, that didn't make it look any better, so I had to redo that project, but I learned what did and did not look good in cardboard which helped my in my final relief project.