Sculpture
This page displays my sculpture projects completed at Los Angeles City College (Fall 2015) and Pasadena City College (Spring 2016), using both positive and negative three-dimensional modeling techniques, and Disney Modeling Clay, plaster, metal wires, fiberglass, laminating resin and other materials.
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The Self-Portrait Project
Bust of A Beautiful Young Girl Project
About sculpture as a plastic art in 3D ...
According to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, "Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast." The construction of sculptural artworks could be either (1) "positive" or additive (building up visual forms by adding materials such as clay or plaster), or (2) "negative" or subtractive (taking away unneeded materials such as wood craving). At art schools, beginning students learn the basics with clay modeling. Pasadena City College offers one of the best sculpture program in Southern California.
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Bust of A Young Woman Project
The Female Torso Project
About bronze sculpture and materials ...
The quotation below from Wikipedia gives basic knowledge about bronze sculpture"
"Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a "bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as well as bronze elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture. It is often gilded to give gilt-bronze or ormolu. Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mold. Then, as the bronze cools, it shrinks a little, making it easier to separate from the mold. Their strength and ductility (lack of brittleness) is an advantage when figures in action are to be created, especially when compared to various ceramic or stone materials (such as marble sculpture). These qualities allow the creation of extended figures, as in Jeté, or figures that have small cross sections in their support, such as the equestrian statue of Richard the Lionheart. There are many different bronze alloys, and the term is now tending to be regarded by museums as too imprecise, and replaced in descriptions by "copper alloy", especially for older objects. Typically modern bronze is 88% copper and 12% tin. Alpha bronze consists of the alpha solid solution of tin in copper. Alpha bronze alloys of 4–5% tin are used to make coins and a number of mechanical applications. Historical bronzes are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand; the metal of the 12th-century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22.5% in the base and 5.76% in the pan below the candle. The proportions of this mixture may suggest that the candlestick was made from a hoard of old coins. The Benin Bronzes are really brass, and the Romanesque Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is described as both bronze and brass." |
The Angel-Mermaid Project
About flexible relief mold-making and casting techniques ...
the following online instructional resources are worth studying:
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The Sunlight Rock Project
The Monument to Post-Industrial Society Project
The Smiling Bust of A Dream World Lion Project
Reference Books
- Crown, Creating Small Wood Objects as Functional Sculpture, ISBN 0-517-51866-X
- David Finn and Hillary Rodham Clinton, 20th Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden, ISBN 0-8109-4221-6, LACL Call Number 730.91 F514
- Donald J. Irving, Sculpture: Material and Process, ASIN: B00169S038, ELAC Call Number NB 1170 I7 1970 (Edward Locke's Note: This book offers some information on traditional techniques in sculpture).
- Herbert George, The Elements of Sculpture, ISBN 978-0-7148-6741-0, LACL Call Number 730 G348 (Edward Locke's Note: This is a great book of reference for sculpture techniques).
- Judith Peck, Sculpture as Experience 2nd Edition, ISBN 978-0-89689-453-2, LACL Call Number 731 P366 2007
- Lark Books, 500 Glass Objects: A Celebration of Functional & Sculptural Glass (500 Series), ISBN 978-1-57990-693-1, PCC Call Number TT 298 .A18 2006
- Maria Pötzl-Malikova and Guilhem Scherf, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism, ISBN 978-88-89854-54-9 (Edward Locke's Note: This book offers a great source of inspiration for human portrait sculpture).
- Nicholas Roukes, Sculpture in Plastics, ISBN 0-8230-4700-8, ELAC Call Number NB 1270 .P5 R6 1968 (Edward Locke's Note: This book offers a lot of information on creating sculpture projects with plastic materials).
- Philip F. Palmedo, The Experience of Modern Sculpture: A guide to Enjoying Works of the Past 100 Years, ISBN 978-0-7643-4904-1, PCC Call Number NB 198 .P24 2015 (Edward Locke's Note: This book offers a lot of information on contemporary sculpture styles).
- Stan Smith, The Sculptor's Handbook, ISBN 0-8317-0471-3, LACL Call Number 731 S4375
- Susie Ward and Barbara Cheney, Start Sculpting: A Step-By-Step Beginner's Guide to Working in Three Dimensions, ISBN 0-7858-0354-8, LACL Call Number 731 P732 Folio (Intro course)
- Valerie J. Fletcher, Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, ISBN 978-3-7913-5465-1, LACL Call Number R730.8 F615
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