Sketches 1

Here are a few sketches. I'm trying to do a few drawings every day until I learn something. The last one is of a wooden sculpture thats in my house. I'm thinking that I'll take basic drawing in my next round of torpedo factory classes. Anyway, more sculptures to come soon. I'm in the middle of something that I'm pretty excited about, so hopefully it will turn out OK.

Burning Spirit Woman

I had planned to work on her more, but I want to move on to something else. I'm going to wait to see if it works out before saying what, because half the time my ideas don't work. Also-- I realized that I really have to learn how to draw. Will I post my feeble attempts? Will I have too much shame/dignity? Stay tuned to find out.

Blog List

Check out the blog links that I added->
Through the Bird's Eye is my amazing friend's blog about art, life, and grad school applications.

Its Computer Science Time is my twin brother's blog about computers, gene expression programming, haskell, a grad school thesis, and many other things, mostly computer related and full of unfathomable jargon.

To the Rails is an electrical engineering blog by my good friend Chris (from the Guest Appearance post). It has projects, concepts, and some sweet diagrams. Chris tries to make things understandable by non-engineers, but can't always get around the fact that he is operating from a higher level of existence. As far as electricity is concerned, at least.

USequineportal is a Craig's List-style site for the equestrian community created by an old friend of mine, Brian, and a friend of his. It just launched earlier this week-- check it out.

Sitting Female

This is the third and final piece from my class at the Torpedo Factory. I had a really good experience, and I'm definitely thinking about taking other classes.

I feel the need to make increasingly larger pieces as time goes on. I really like working with wax sometimes, like for the spiral woman for example, but clay is definitely my favorite medium. I like the way it feels, the way it smells, the way it moves, and the way you can change its plasticity by adding water or drying it. Its such an old and basic material, and there are so many accumulated techniques for working with it. There are techniques for building, throwing, drying, joining; you can even have an effect on it at a molecular level just using your hands by aligning the little platelets. If only I had a kiln. Some day.

Male Figure

So this is my first live-model male figure sculpture. I didn't have much time to work on this because I had to miss a class, so I left the head rough. I also took my third sculpture from the class home today. The third one is the best, I think-- I will post pictures of her soon.

Spiral Woman

This piece was originally supposed to be a representational female figure with a spiral in her stance, from her raised hand to her feet (I'd just seen the movie Pi again). It was too difficult to make without good reference material, so I took the route of my sculpture from Day 40-43. I had a good time making this. To me, she looks like a little dancing spirit.