Sculpture I Grades

Overall current grades are now updated in Bb and reflect the Ada Artists' Show and the Digital Sculptures.

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WE MADE IT THROUGH MID-TERM!

Josh, hope you are feeling better soon!

Here's some shots of what Sculpture II has been doing:

Lunch

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Digital Lab Printers

Please note:

The two printers in the digital lab are for printing materials for art classes only. Any print jobs of more than 3 - 5 should either be done at home or at an actual computer lab elsewhere on campus that has funding for massive amounts of paper and ink. We do not have the resources to support a free-for-all of printing.

Please do not print any personal items and please do not print powerpoints from any art history class unless you set it to print 8 - 10 slides per page.

The passwords on the 2 white imacs have been changed to artprintonly in an attempt to reduce unnecessary printing. Once the ink is gone it's gone for this semester.

Thank You

new piece added to website

http://www.aaronhauck.com/sculpture.html

Look what I discovered while dropping my work off at IAO in OKC this afternoon. Work by our very own Kelley Lunsford!

AAA Show

The Ada Artists Association is holding the Fall 2010 Art Exhibit at the Ada Public Library (12th and Rennie, 2nd floor). Exhibit hours are Monday- Friday, Nov. 1 - 5 from 10am - 6pm and Saturday, Nov. 6 from 9am - noon. It is open to the public and free of charge.

Registration for the show is this Saturday, October 30 from 9am until noon.

If you would like more information about the show contact Erin at (580) 235-0309.

Chu Enoki

Check this out Sculpture II! apparently we're turning japanese. Found this guy on google. I like the way he uses the machine parts to advertise the strange urban skyline of his future city.

He's also got some more fun and bizarre stuff on his website: chuenoki.com/works.html

Bumble Bee

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 3

ART CLUB MEETING

This Wednesday at noonish in room 172. The meeting concerns efforts to increase SCHOLARSHIP FUNDING FOR ART STUDENTS!!!!!!!! YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED!

The Turtle is DONE!!!!

The Final Product

Originals Sign Up

Visual Art Entries Due
Monday, Nov. 1st 9am - 5pm
Put work in the drawing studio

3 entries per student

pick up artwork Thursday or Friday of that week

Please scroll down to see new assignment and news

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George Washington Carver sculpture

Below are 3 photos I took over break at the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri. My mom and I have been going to this place almost every Fall Break since I was 4. GWC (born 1864) was the son of slaves on the Carver Farm in SW Missouri. George went to school and later too college to study horticulture because of the love for plants that he developed growing up on a farm.

He went to grad school at Iowa State University in Ames and got a masters I believe. Then he became a professor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There he focused on one crop that he planted as a child; the peanut.

He created over 100 different uses for peanut for the food industry. He is most known for creating peanut butter. Earlier forms of peanut butter had been around, but he created the kind that we enjoy today.

This sculpture is made out of bronze and was creating using the "lost-wax" technique. A clay model was made by an artist. Then a multi-piece plaster mold was taken from the clay model. The plaster mold was reconstructed without the clay model inside leaving a void. Hot wax was then poured inside and allowed to cool. This clay replica was then covered in a ceramic shell of slurry and fine silica sand. The wax model and the shell attached was then placed into a "burn-out" kiln to melt the wax out leaving another void. This hot shell was then immediately moved near a heated furnace with a crucible full of hot bronze in it. The crucible was then "tipped" and the bronze flows inside of the shell and allowed to cool. The shell is then knocked off revealing the bronze sculpture. Minor details and errors were "chased" with grinding tools and the piece was sand blasted, polished and sealed.

Volunteer Reminder

Attention all Sculpture students. I still need more volunteers to help with Grounded. I need as many people as possible on Monday at 4 out on the plaza to draw squares with sidewalk chalk. If there are several people this job should take about 20 minutes.

I also need helpers between about 8:45 am and 10:00 am on Tuesday to take entry fees, explain rules, and to direct competitors to their assigned plaza area.

I would really appreciate and remember I am canceling class on that day so that you can help out.

Thank You!

Sculpture II Critique

We will still have the scheduled critique this Thursday. I need to do a short tool demo for Sculpture I before I head over the old place for the critique. Please bear with me. I will do my best to get over there as soon as I can.

Sculpture I NEW ASSIGNMENT

To begin this Thursday. I have a critique with sculpture II on that day. So please email me with any questions about this assignment.

Part 1 (2 class periods)

Select a visually interesting object from life and fabricate it out of wood.

Proportions should be accurate, but the scale should differ greatly. You should choose something relatively small like a remote control or nail clippers and make it much larger reproducing all surface topography and dimensional elements.

Process – wood fabrication (carving should be reserved for minor details and surface texture only)

Scale – 2-3 feet in any direction

Surface – sand and coat with clear polyurethane

Materials – pine, cedar, clear pine, select pine, plywood, mdf

Home Depot is a good source for materials. They also have a “cull” bin that has cheap wood in it. Dumpsters can also good sources. Pine is the cheapest wood and is adequate for this assignment.

Different species of wood have different colors. The cheap pine at Home Depot is light yellow. Cedar fence pickets are darker. You may try to blend different colors of wood together.

Possible Objects to Study:

camera

cell phone

kitchen appliance

video game controller

hairbrush

toothbrush

stapler

tape dispenser

power tool

can opener
hair clip
clothes pin

You may choose any object you like, but please run it by me first. Notice that the objects in my list are mostly rectilinear or geometric. Avoid organic or curvilinear objects like stuffed animals or other round, soft, furry, objects. Fabricated wood will have hard, rectilinear planes.

Part 2 (3 class periods)

Abstract the same object using wood and using a similar process. Begin by making several sketches utilizing abstraction techniques such as Cubism, Futurism, Abstract Expressionism.

Process – wood fabrication

Scale – 2-3 feet in any direction

Surface – sand and coat with clear polyurethane

^{Materials – pine, cedar, clear pine, select pine, plywood, mdf}

^{I will be grading based on the following:}

^{proportions (part 1)}

^{ambitiousness (both)}

^{creativeness (part 2)}

^{craftsmanship (both)}

^{GENERAL NOTE: This is NOT a carving assignment. Fabricate parts using the band saw and other tools and fasten them together using the nail gun, screws, or wood glue. You should only be using the carving tools to achieve minute details on your work. Other tools that may be of use; jigsaw, drill, drill press, panel saw, table saw, router, belt sander, planer, etc. I will give a short demo at the beginning of class on Thursday.}

Nathan Sawaya

Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works out of some of the most unlikely things. His recent North American museum tours feature large-scale sculptures using only toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.

I would really love to see this in person. Banksy vs Bristol Museum

Giant horse among runners to be 'Angel of the South' | News

Giant horse among runners to be 'Angel of the South' | News

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23482891-giant-horse-among-runners-to-be-angel-of-the-south.do

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digital Assignment

BLOG REMINDER!!!!

Many of you, well honestly all of you, need to reread the following that is from the syllabus regarding this blog and your grade.

Class Blog (www.ecusculpture.blogspot.com)
You are required to contribute and interact with the ECU sculpture blog. You must first get a free gmail account and email me your address. At that point you will become a co-author of this blog. You will be able to add content at any time such as images of your work in this class, comments on your peers' work, and anything else that is sculpture related. It is expected that you take digital photos of your work in progress and post these images on a regular basis. In order to receive a grade for each assignment you must also post a photo(s) of the completed piece. You will also be required to make 4 thoughtful and ambitious entries that cover a significant sculptor or sculpture topic of your choice. The very first blog entry is a model (Tim Hawkinson).

Evaluation and Grading
60% based on finished projects produced in this class, which includes: on-time fulfillment of assignments, craftsmanship and ambition, and relevance to content.
30% based on overall attendance and work ethic, which includes safe work habits, clean-up, and participation in class and on the sculpture blog.
10% based on final exam (slide recognition; see list of artists below)

It's midterm and now is the time to start working toward that 30% of your final grade that includes this blog. Your grade on Bb does not reflect the blog. So please for your grade's sake get to it.

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