Category Archives: 3D

Sculpture portrait

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Date: Dec 2, 2024

Medium: Clay and Ceramics tool kit

Statement:

This project aimed to make a self-portrait sculpture using proper techniques, such as slick and score or smoothing. I started my project by creating the shape of myself out of clay. I didn’t use any tissue or aluminum foil to make the shape of me. I created my shape by rolling the clay like dough and forming it into a base for my neck and a ball of my head. Later, I added more clay to make my neck longer since it looked smaller. I used the slick and score technique to add specific parts like my ears or nose whenever I needed more clay. Then, I would smooth parts of the sculptor with water that had cracks in them so it wouldn’t hurt my design too much.

I also added more clay to make my head’s size thicker than usual; in this project, I even had to use another method called patience. Finding the patience was difficult because I had to redo the nose and ears again whenever it would mess up when I got home. Learning this technique helped me because it improved my project in some messy regions.

Robot sculpture

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Date: Oct 23, 2024

Medium: cardboard, water bottles, tissue rolls, hard wire, two different kinds of toothpicks, hot glue, and two different fabrics

Statement:

This project aims to create an art piece that uses multiple objects to make a strong periodic pattern. In this case, I created a small life-size robot that displays this pattern with toothpicks and chair fabric. I made my robot from water bottles and cardboard to make the torso and legs. I used hot glue to keep the water bottles and tissue roll attached to the cardboard. As I created the upper torso, I cut some cardboard, stacked them together, and hot-glued them at the very top where the shoulders would be. I created two stacks on each side of the robot to put the hard wire through them to make the arms. Then, I cut the bottles and put the wire through to create the bulk of the arm. I later created the hands from cardboard and attached them to the arms.

After I was finished, I made the head out of cardboard and the eye out of a plastic eye. Then, I wrapped and hot-glued two different pieces of fabric onto the robot. I used leftover green fabric for the robot’s top portion and the badge Fabric for the bottom. I finally hot-glued the toothpicks on the stomach and butt parts of the robot. I created an antenna by using a broken picture frame molding and glued it to the side of my robot’s head.

Abstract sculpture

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Date: Oct 2, 2024

Medium: wire, floral foam block, plaster, acrylic paint, and X-Acto blade

Statements:

The objective of this project was to grasp an understanding of form in space by creating an abstract sculpture out of a floral foam block. I started by carving circles out of my foam with my X-Acto blade. Then, I shed the excess pieces to make the foam more round or flat so it could form into the shapes that I wanted. After I was finished, I carved the rest of the block so the whole piece would fit the holder that was used to display the art piece.

I found some wire in class, and I used to attach it to the holder’s center so my shapes could go on. I later carved out a hole in my unfished art piece so one of my shapes attached to wire could fit right through. Next, I added plaster to the whole art piece, which was created using water to smooth it out. Then, I finally painted everything with blue and purple acrylic paint and waited until it dried.

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Egg Drop project (3D Design)

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Date: Sep 11, 2024

Medium (material): two different kinds of tooth picks, hot glue, and bottles caps

Statement:

The goal for the egg drop project was to build a practical sculpture that would hold an egg while we dropped it from an elevated height. For my design, I made a car with a parachute holding it. I couldn’t find Michaels’s toothpicks, so I used wooden Creatology Pics to create my sculpture instead. Then, I used hot glue to make the car’s chassis, body, and parachute. I started by making my holder for the egg first; originally, I wasn’t planning to make that part into a parachute. I made the holder into a parachute anyway because my car was too small.

As soon as I was done making the chassis, I wasn’t sure which way I wanted the hood or the trunk of the car to go. It was challenging to decide which way I wanted the front to go because the gaps I made for the wheels to go were too close apart. To add insult to injury, I made the chassis too small, so I knew I needed to make my body smaller, too. I made my car into a Volkswagen Beetle because I made my chassis small.