sculpture and photography

          using Andy Goldsworthy as inspiration I have created a gradient from brown to yellow using the vivid autumn leaves spread across a white background to enable them to stand out. With nature as a theme within my art it would be incomprehensible to go without using at least something natural within my work as an experimental piece. On its own this piece has not chance of being considered as a final as it is essentially a pile of organised leaves, however I do intent to incorporate this natural rescores into a final to bring out both sides of my theme.     

this sculpture is about 40cm in length and is inbuilt with a motor that allows the jaw to open and close. modelled as a tyrannosaurs rex I had used wire mesh to form the centre in which as covered in paper mache and then mod rock to make painting it significantly easier.   

 

      

not long ago I made a birdhouse with my mother for the garden, not long after it had been built blue tits had nested in it and for the time after small chirps could be heard when close to it. this is one of me personal favourite photographs as  it is personal to me and represents the theme of nature.

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sometimes when out walking the dogs I will bring my camera as more often than not there will be images of wildlife. this photo in particular shows an unfortunate insect caught in a spiders web. 

 

After experimenting with several different mediums I decided it would be best to create a sculpture using wire like the art of Christopher Gasparian. For this a human figure was used as this is what the artist focus on in his art. The sculpture has been made to ensure that the limbs can be moved by reducing the density of the wire around those areas such as the elbows and knees, in addition to this the figure has a scarf and a pair of gloves made of a teacake wrapper since I beloved it would add a little more personality to the sculpture and allow it to fit in with a leafy backdrop. Only taking two hours this does have potential to be a final outcome idea.

After creating a few other pieces using wire I decided that it may be best to use wire in two dimensions rather than three to construct two foxes and a crow in addition to a larger wolf. this series of animal figures were made by intertwining wire with all of them with the exception of the large wolf in my folder made using a single strand of wire. after constructing the smaller animals, it became apparent that they would not show well on white paper and as a result they were placed on black paper instead. it was very enjoyable making these however it may take a second glance to realise what some of them are meant to be but overall I am pleased with these as they show both sides of my theme in a way that is presentable in a book in the style of Christopher Gasparian.