My Sculpture and Graphic Art Journey
One of the pieces of graphic art I created for my Photoshop class was a composite image of a tree over a woman. I called it Yggdrasil Dying. The intent was to convey a sense of mother earth (Yggdrasil in Norse mythology) suffering. I decided to try and convey that same sense of suffering only [...]
(2-27-19) I entered this in our local Veterans Creative Arts competition and won first place in the sculpture category! After practicing on the large faces, I'm back to doing a smaller scale piece. I'm focusing this time on composition and overall movement in the piece. This one is Odin releasing one of his ravens, (Huginn), [...]
After completing The Price of Fame I was not happy with how I had sculpted her face. I tried to get a look of shame and ended up with something more angry and out of proportion. I clearly need more work on sculpting faces on a small scale.I decided to focus on doing larger faces [...]
Continuing on my theme of strong women, I decided to go in the opposite direction from The Fighter. Social media and social media stardom comes at a cost to women and that cost is often in the form of sexual idealization. This work is trying to capture that cost. Final was cast in Bondo and [...]
(Update 2: September 8th, 2018- "The Fighter was awarded a first place ribbon at the Utah State Fair in the Creative Arts Amateur division! The Greenman won BEST OF SHOW!) (Update: August 11, 2018 - So I entered this piece in our local county fair. It won first prize in the Fine Arts (FA) Sculpture [...]
An important aspect of art is establishing a purpose for your work. I have been reading "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman recently and given our current political climate, knew I wanted to create something that comments on our difficulties with climate change and anti-science rhetoric and how it is effecting our planet. I thought the [...]
Back to familiar territory and my darker themes... Simon and Garfunkel's song "The Sounds of Silence" has been a favorite of mine since I first heard it as a kid. Recently, a hard rock band I really enjoy called "Disturbed" remade the song. Their version is now my favorite version and I wanted to do [...]
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