week 12

I made my frog by paper. In the second part of the lesson i have graven a frog to concrete. It was very fun, I enjoyed it really much. Actually now, after a month from the first frog project I can state that I know with closed eyes, how a frog looks like :)

week 10

I continued making my 2nd type of frog. Today I used wooden slat. At the beginning I just can't imagine how will be a frog. Fortunately the others could recognized :)

week 9

In the lesson I started to make the first type of the 3 types-project. We have to make our chosen animal with 3 different types of material. I almost finished my frog by wire. It was not an easy job, but interesting and painful because of the sharp edges of the wires :)

week 8

We started to make sketch about the next project.

week 6

We started the animal project. My chosen was a frog. When I found out that I wanted to do a frog I thought it will be easier than it was. I'm in the middle of the work so I will continue in the next lesson.

week 5

Fortunately drying is ready. The most exiting moment was to take out the mask from the gypsum. It was really nice, the final step was to paint it. I had to made 4 different colours, which are similar to the real Japanese mask, called ko-omote. Finally I cut out the mouth, and Adam suggested to cut the eyes also, so he helped me to make it. After 5 week hard working we finished the mask procejt, and I'm satisfied with it.

week 4

After drying I continued with gluing the newspaper in 5 layers. Then I had to wait for drying secondly. It's boring, it would be good to continue working immediately, but we have to wait for the next week. I'm looking for getting ready with it.

week 3

Today we have continued the mask project. The first step was the decantation of clay with gypsum. After drying we had to dig the gypsum from the mask. Then washout succeeded, it followed a soup cream and toilet paper with a special kind of glue. Now the mask is drying on the radiator in the sculpting room.

week 2

We had to bring a sketch about a mask what we going to make in the forthcoming weeks. I had chosen a traditional Japanese mask /which is similar to me by Adam :)/. We carved it to clay, so the first step is ready. It will be continued on the next lesson.

week 1

I was very curious about sculpture lesson, because I really appreciate it. I suppose it will be a big and new challenge for me, because I used to draw, but sculpting is a different thing. On the first lesson we got an intro about sculpting history then we did a little cast of gypsum. We pushed different forms into it, for instance I used my bracelet, key, comb. It was a good starting point on the way to huge marble statues. :)