Sculpture Intro

Hello everyone,

Due to all of the craft updates I've been posting, I think it's time for a change in material...I'm pretty sure you are tired of it just like I am.

I am not sure how many other sculpture updates I will be doing in the future but... but but but I know I have some other sculpture related things floating around the house that need to be posted on here. Yes old stuff I've made, but I know once I get started with more art classes next year or even during the summer I'll be creating some sculpture related posts on here.

And in this post I just wanted to show you guys something I created during my winter ceramics class in 2011.

 

 Starting off I have this organic earthy shape....made with red clay (it's not terra cotta...I know that for sure).

This is not the first piece I did in this class...I did a smaller one of this to just get a feel for it. It was not as flowing or with so many wavy parts....and it certainly was  not all one color...in fact I did a rainbow on it. I should find pictures of it, or maybe I can take pictures of it later.

I did attach pictures of the finished version here:

Moving on to the next piece I did.

 






This has been fired once, the problem is that one of the petals broke off. And I really do not know what I want to do with this now....I am not sure what color to make it. I could keep the flower colors, making the upper/inside all pink and outside all green.... I'll have to think on it for some time...

This next one is a conch shell....it doesn't look like one... because I never did the bottom of it. I left it open because halfway I felt this need to just create something with swirly motions...and part of that happened to be using the knife to cute off a lot of the clay...mostly on the bottom. I think it goes nicely with the engraving I did on it. I wish I had done the whole shell in just the blue and green colors...with the purple and orange for just the designs. I think the hands and the white are just too distracting.

 

 

I do have this finished...The pictures of the finished piece come in a later post as I am not feeling up to it...plus I already put it in it's new home which is hard to access as it's really high up.

Lastly from the same class, we had to create a book project.

So I did a children's origami book and took the basic steps from an advanced level of origami technique (non-traditional too) and made it come out of the book. 

 

 

I used a wire and did this double folded technique using two strips of paper to create cube like forms which I wrapped around the wire to hide it from view. 

And yes for those of you who have noticed, the pieces are  the ones used to make 3D origami. =)

That is all I have for this sculpture post...
Till next time,
Tootles ~♥~

Love for buttons~*`

So recently I discovered that buttons are just amazing!!!!!!!!
Totally in love with buttons and now I have this need of collecting all sorts of buttons and creating something out of them.

I found some amazing artwork online created using buttons and sometimes a mixture of other medias.

By: R. L. Lewis  Title: unknown

Yes of course I am talking about sewing buttons and not the icons or pin buttons...those are interesting too but these sewing buttons are just something else.

By: Karen Hurley on Behance.net

I am for sure now going to create something with the buttons I have collected. I need more colors and shapes but I want to create a picture like this where the buttons are glued in a pattern on a flat surface...maybe with a combination of felt or other media like pencils and markers and paint. 

Perhaps some sort of mixture like this:

By: Jodie at Meringue Diary

Or something even more extreme like this:

By: unknown, more info

Of course as a beginner in the area of button art, I wouldn't be able to create something to advanced but I sure can hope to get to this level in the future. Not that I even want to attempt this...way too complicated but interesting still.

Anyways, there is plenty of other cool button art out there on the internet. All different kinds of art like sculptures and pictures and more. 

I just want to end this post with a picture of something I created recently. It's not fully button art but I did try to incorporate buttons into the design. 

 

It's not completely finished as I am going to add some more decoration on the back and finish that flap too. 

It's a phone case made to look like a camera. After doing this I learned that I could have put a small pocket on the back where my name is and added more decorative beadwork to it. And of course the method could have been made simpler, so I am going to create another one this coming summer that hopefully turns out better than this. 

Thanks for reading and don't forget to share your own ideas and artwork about buttons!!!!

Just kidding, it doesn't have to be just buttons, it can be art on anything ♥