Critique 4

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Pictures from class (only because the others I took were a little bright due to sun)

Process

 Mold of my hand with plaster in it.

 Trying to make that meat color on plaster.

 All my broken hands and some getting fixed

Critique 3

 Intentional Play

My three materials are soft sculpture, plaster, and chicken wire. For the past two weeks I've been experimenting with all of them, but mainly plaster and chicken wire since I've already done a lot of soft sculpture.

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For this piece, I molded my foot and then casted it in plaster and attached hooks so I could hang it from the chain. I want to continue working on this piece and add more limbs to it. Perhaps some arms and hands (I made some hands but both broke in the mold.)

 For this piece I started out by making a chicken wire form of a meat shape (half a cow). I then used burlap and other fabrics and different colored dyed plasters. I have a lot more to do to it but just recently had surgery and had to take a break from it.

Which is why I made this, because I can do it sitting down. Plus I've been wanting to make a lot of them and have them all hanging together as a series, called Innards and Remains. 

 

I also tried making some udders with fabric I want to make a lot of them all different sizes on the wall. I need to work more on it to make it more udder like. Free the nipples!

Videos of Process

So I have been experimenting with plaster and chicken wire since these are both materials I am not to familiar with using; here is video of me doing it. I also tried different dying techniques and if other fabrics worked with the plaster.

Processes

Process of starting a larger loom, since I want to continue what I have been doing so far. I want to have a lot of these to be hanging from the ceiling all different lengths, sizes, and colors, so I used a large painting I had..(isn't it lovely) 

Adding some different textures and materials, playing with them, deciding where I want to go with this piece.

Added some rope that I found, and removed that white fabric on the bottom. 

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I've also been working with plaster, first I made a mold of my foot with alignate, and casted it in plaster, which I then plan to hang from a chain. Which is why I added another layer of of plaster to the top of the foot  trying to make it look like bones, so I can drill into and put in a hook.  

(plaster in the mold)

I still need to sand the feet to get rid of the bubbles and bumps. 

I haven't decided if I should add blood to the feet or not. I kind of like the simple white. 

I also tried to mold of my hand but was a failure and all the fingers broke in the mold, I tried fixing them by reattaching them with plaster but since all the fingers were different sizes and didn't sit straight so they didn't attach perfectly in place. So I think it would be easier to make another mold, when I get more alginate. 

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But for my larger piece I'm using two of my materials, chicken wire and plaster. So I plan on doing the plaster layup process. Which I have done once before and failed horribly, so I really want to work hard with this, I'm not to great with plaster so it's been fun exploring the material. As well as the chicken wire I would love to do just a chicken wire piece but since it is see thru I would need many layers and don't know if I'm able to afford that much chicken wire. 

For this I did want to change the color of the plaster, so I started out putting in food coloring in the water, and then added the plaster. 

I thought I added enough color but once I started to mix the plaster it became very light, and pinkish. 

I don't mind it for the undercoat, but I would like to make the more finished piece darker in color. 

So I will be exploring other ways to dye the plaster with out it getting to light in color.

Adding the plaster to Burlap and then putting it onto my meat formed, chicken wire.

Was unable to get a good picture of just the chicken wire because it is see thru. 

But this is the start of my process.