In 3-D

Year of the Spark: the working assignment now is creating a wire and fiber-wrapped animal.  Uh O, hand sewing is involved - something I do not like much at all, mostly because I am clumsy with needle and thread.  I feel inner resistance...

When I mentally protest it is a signal that I absolutely need to do it.  On the positive side, I am drawn to three-dimensional work.  I have created a couple of 3-D pieces (in clay and in paper) and the unfamiliarity of working in "space" was all-absorbing.

Et voici, the imaginary animal: 

"In the Pink"

Tie more, sew less :-)

From sketch to sculpture

The creative impetus for this post is from an assignment for Carla Sonheim's 2014: Year of the Fairy Tale online class.

This is the sketch:

Hm-m-m, I wondered how I could fashion those legs... ones that would allow this horse to stand on its own.  I used a spool of wire.  I didn't know how to create proper "joints", therefore, conceptually I would be creating a three-dimensional "one-liner".

With my wire as my "ink" and needle-nose pliers as my nib, this is the result:

Begin at one point and keep going.

3-D one liner :-)

For bulk, I cover the wire form with aluminum foil and then applied the modeling "clay":

Yay, still standing.

Big head and big tail.

I really enjoyed making this little guy.  I still have a lot of wire left on the spool...