For the final, I decided to take an experimental approach regarding materials and how they were applied. The main idea i wanted to play with was scrunched up aluminum foil as a surface with watered down acrylic paint gently brushed over the surface of the wrinkles. The top of the aluminum wrinkles would be still shiny but stained a different color, and the deeper parts would remain their natural color. This was the original idea, however I learned later that some areas would feel much more opaque than others, defeating the purpose of the underlying metallic shine. The original design was also much more organic and round, as opposed to the jagged but curved shape seen here, with the underlying foam chunks, cubes and rectangles, that can be seen underneath the aluminum foil. The rectilinear shapes underneath clash with the overall roundness too much in my opinion and it makes the sculpture more of a pain to look at. Once I told myself this, I pushed further on ways to make it more interesting. I had the pink green and yellow paint all down, and decided to use an extremely watered down blue to drip over top of the sculpture so that it would naturally fall and pull its way though the cracks and surface differences of the sculpture, and this to me is the highlight of the entire sculpture. Now looking back at it, I probably should have designed the sculpture to be taller and thinner in order to really accentuate the watery blue paint, but that last addition was made on a whim. Nonetheless, I learned a lot about how to approach sculpture and art in general through this process.
For this project, each student made multiple pieces of red clay with different shapes, patterns and textures. These pieces were all fired and then each of us were to make a sculpture using these pieces that others have created. This made for a more instinctual approach to the sculpture rather than building it from the ground up with what it means and how it'll look. Omitting the pre-planning process (sketching, etc.) of creating this sculpture was a really interesting and new method to me, and I found that it pushed my creativity by creating this limitation. I used 3 different paints, red, white and black, and painted along the edges of the pieces as well lightly brushing over them so the paint only caught the most superficial surfaces, visually enhancing the potpourri of textures that appear among the individual components of the sculpture.
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