Also, my wax piece will be caste in bronze as of next week! more to come on that and this piece.
Click "view as slideshow" after the jump or click each one separately to see the large versions.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Working Carrara marble in Italy!
Just wanted to show some work in progress(WIP) shots of my marble project. this block was a part of an even larger block that I drilled and split. I then spent 3 hours leveling out the base using a 3,4,5 triangle to find the right angle. I then went through and cut off a substantial amount from the left and right sides of the block after drawing a rough version of the piece onto the front. after that I used the saw again to remove some marble from the front. I then began a much more precise method of measuring my wax model exactly and multiplying it by 2.5 so that my final marble piece will be 2 and a half times larger than my model. once I had some solid points such as the top of the sternum and the ends of the clavicle I drilled into the marble to that exact point and basically connected the dots with the pneumatic hammer for the torso. That is my process so far, I wont be sculpting the back until the end so that I cant really go "to far" I am looking forward to the final piece and the knowledge I will learn on the way. I have already done a lot of experimenting and have already learned a ton.
Also, my wax piece will be caste in bronze as of next week! more to come on that and this piece.
Click "view as slideshow" after the jump or click each one separately to see the large versions.
Also, my wax piece will be caste in bronze as of next week! more to come on that and this piece.
Click "view as slideshow" after the jump or click each one separately to see the large versions.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Greeting from Italy!
Ciao! Well with any uncharted territory comes new problems. I will not be able to upload nearly as many pictures and videos as I would like while I am here because the internet is so slow. That said I have uploaded most of my important videos in a fairly low quality to share. Once I get back to the states I will re-upload all of my videos in high quality. Until then I will be uploading some pictures, and some low def. videos. I recorded each day of Rome and Florencein my sketchpad and will be typing all of those up starting now!
Om Aug 28-29
Left from Atlanta, I hated saying goodbye to Rashaida! I was ahead of schedule and everything went smooth but everyone on my flight spoke Dutch. I didn't sleep a bit on the plane. My connection was nuts! Our flight was late so I had to sprint to make it. When I arrived I had no bag! I also couldn't find my GA sign holders, finally I gave up and made my own sign, that got me found. I had to wait for the next flight from Amsterdam to Rome to get my bag. Road the bus to the hotel. Stayed up for supper then crashed 30+ hours awake!
On Aug 30th
Went to the ancient roman sights, Colosseum, forum, and the arch of Titus. I loved the cold water from all of the fountains in Rome. For lunch all of the other students ate near the Colosseum, I didn't want touristy food and I needed to find a bank so I went off on my own and ended up finding some great Italian! I spoke some really rough Italian and got some great lasagna in return. I forgot to mention I missed our group bus ride in the morning so I had to figure out the buses by myself, my Rick Steve's phrase book saved the day! After lunch we went to the Borghese! It was awesome! The Bernini's were incredible. I loved Persephone and Dante. I sketched it(click here for pic), the male ended up hectic looking while the girl has much calmer lines. It is mind boggling that he was 22 when he did Apollo and Daphne. He pushes marble further than I knew was possible, The leaves were crazy! We visited the spanish steps, I didn't see the point. We then went to a creepy crypt which gave me the creeps so I left pretty quick.
Om Aug 28-29
Left from Atlanta, I hated saying goodbye to Rashaida! I was ahead of schedule and everything went smooth but everyone on my flight spoke Dutch. I didn't sleep a bit on the plane. My connection was nuts! Our flight was late so I had to sprint to make it. When I arrived I had no bag! I also couldn't find my GA sign holders, finally I gave up and made my own sign, that got me found. I had to wait for the next flight from Amsterdam to Rome to get my bag. Road the bus to the hotel. Stayed up for supper then crashed 30+ hours awake!
On Aug 30th
Went to the ancient roman sights, Colosseum, forum, and the arch of Titus. I loved the cold water from all of the fountains in Rome. For lunch all of the other students ate near the Colosseum, I didn't want touristy food and I needed to find a bank so I went off on my own and ended up finding some great Italian! I spoke some really rough Italian and got some great lasagna in return. I forgot to mention I missed our group bus ride in the morning so I had to figure out the buses by myself, my Rick Steve's phrase book saved the day! After lunch we went to the Borghese! It was awesome! The Bernini's were incredible. I loved Persephone and Dante. I sketched it(click here for pic), the male ended up hectic looking while the girl has much calmer lines. It is mind boggling that he was 22 when he did Apollo and Daphne. He pushes marble further than I knew was possible, The leaves were crazy! We visited the spanish steps, I didn't see the point. We then went to a creepy crypt which gave me the creeps so I left pretty quick.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)