Artist

The Figurative artist that i liked was Laurie Pace. She lives in Texas and is a very accomplished artist. I liked her pieces because of the color and shapes in them. The way that she painted all of the people blending into each other was really unique and interesting. It shows how all humans are connected, but all different in our own ways. The other painting she did that I really liked were these hands. A lot of people paint hands, but something about hers really stood out. I love her water color paintings, and just the way she paints. It's really unique and messy but still so pretty. She also incorporated all of the elements into the hands. I didn't notice the fire at first, but the more you look at it the more interesting it gets and I like that. Here are some of her pieces.

Vessel

For my vessel I thought it would be fun to do a box... That was my first mistake. I made many mistakes that I had to overcome, the first as I mentioned before was the fact that I made a box. I don't exactly like boxes, not really even sure why I made this. But the entire time I had to overcome the struggle of hating my piece. In the end it ended up looking not extremely terrible, thanks to your fantastic idea of covering it in glass jars that had fake flowers in them. However, in the future I would never make a box again, and I hope if any of your students ever say "Mrs. Sudkamp I want to make a box," you get my box out and warn them of the ugliness that is in their future. Even though it was ugly, it is probably the most functional piece in this whole room. I mean you really could out anything in it, it could support a good amount of weight so that's probs good. Anyways now it's time for picturesss!!!!!!!!

Molds

For my mold I made baby hands. I think the mold process was a little boring. I mean it was easy but I didn't enjoy it. I think the hands ended up pretty good I mean one ended up breaking but it had so many cracks in it I figured it would, as for the other hand it is a great ring holder.

Pit fired

I made the Pit fired piece by rolling out a piece of clay and putting it over a bouncy ball I then cut the whole thing and reshaped my two halves.  After that I put a lock on it so I could have the match together. After that I put tera Sig on it and then you pit fired it. I didn't like the way it turned out. I do not like the way it looks, especially mine. I don't think i would try this again.

Relief

For my relief piece I used something up a little bit different then most prople, i worked with Christmas lights. I ended up shaping the lights into a wreath formation cutting out drywall, crushing ornaments, and drilling a bunch of holes. Obviously my project was a little different than the average persons and I got the inspiration for my project through lights. I love light bulbs I find them super fun to work with and I knew that I wanted to incorporate then into my piece. Another big inspiration for my piece was christmas, obviously I really love Christmas and it was really fun to making something that I love. My favorite part of the piece was having it light up even though it broke a couple times, a bunch of the lights went out I still thought it ended up looking super cool and I would say it was successful. Next time I would try a little bit harder to be careful with the drywall and not let Grayson kick it. Here are the pictures of my piece.

Mini projects

For my relief pieces I started off with clay, it was probably the hardest for me to work with. I naturally am not the best with clay and trying a new technique was harder, and making the three dimensional part was even harder. The next piece I did was cardboard this was quite easy and fun, the hardest part was probably just choosing what to do. And my last mini project didn't exactly work out, I tried to make a paper flower but it kept ripping and now I am focused on my main project. I think when I reattempt the paper flower (with tissue paper) it Will work much better. Here are pictures of all my pieces...

David Surls

The sculpturist that I chose was David Surl, here are some of his pieces.

I really like the fact that he does abstract art and how all of his pieces are very original. I also like that all of his pieces incorporate some sort of flowers. These are all pieces that I would like to do get inspiration from.

Here is his link davidjsurls at LinkedIn