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Now, the reason I called this a happy accident because I remembered I was complaining about how my sculpture was sagging this morning. The face and the neck was sagging probably due to hollowing it out too early on, anyhow the face was sagging down making the skull looks like it was pointing upward. So I thought to myself maybe enlongated skull could be a good symbolic element to my sculpture!

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I used my earlier sketch idea of a head with vines wrapped around it. It was inspired by Poison Ivy who is one of my favorite comic characters. I wanted to draw the head tilting upwards to make it look like the victim was looking up at Poison Ivy. I wanted to try and create a smile with the vines which you can see in the mouth area with the vines intersecting. Other than that I tried my best to follow the instructions on how to build a bust and made sure to draw my lines to try and keep everything symmetrical. I had lots of fun doing this and brainstorming !!

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I did this sketch, because it tells a war story in the past. The story is never forgotten.

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Here is my side view of my Sculpted German Bust.

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Here is my side view of my Sculpted German Bust.

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Here is my side view of my simple German soldier bust.

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I am reusing this sketch I did on my last assignment for the facial structure while keeping the elongated skull as a symbolic element for my sculpture. I chose this profile shot because African male has this unique pronounced lips, cheek bones, brows, and overall a very interesting facial structure to sculpt on.

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A Sculpted Clay Bust of a German Soldier

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A Sculpted Clay Bust of a German Soldier

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I have sculpted a simple plain German Soldier Bust.

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I did this simple bust of a German soldier, because it tells a story of the past war. Why did I choose this, because it shows light, and very dark aspects to past life. I did not know why this German helmet soldier popped in the back of my head. It could of been the Chinese soldiers that I observed, that triggered the idea. I do know I am part German, but it is not why the creative process showed up in my mind as a simple German soldier with a helmet on, in back of my head. A lot of creative images show up in my head when I observe other busts. This sculpted soldier has no smile, because that was the image that showed in back of my mind.

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Not surprisingly as I was working in the clay my ideas about what I was creating changed. I was struggling with the symbolic element, and trying not to do a bird since they have become so cliche. However, I have been involved with bird conservation and making art about birds for a long time, plus I was inspired by a Moche vessel of a man with a bird headdress, so I went for it. I decided the bird should be the extinct Passenger Pigeon. The bust as it is needs more refining - an interesting thing about looking at a photo is that you can see things you might not notice in 3-D; for example I can now see that the ears are too far back on the head. I need to refine the neck, and would like to put the head on shoulders. I will be adding the pigeons after it is hollowed out.

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I am still working on the bust project. I'm not sure if my bust should have Mega Man's helmet or have hair.

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I've been have faced some challenges with this assignment. I have not gotten very far. I went with the coil method but have struggled to seal the top of the head. I may have gone too thin? I've decided that I really want to sculpt a male because I have never tried to sculpt a male figure before- I always do a female body because that is what I am most familiar and comfortable with. I also am really intrigued by the idea of sculpting facial hair. However, I have not yet come up with any symbolism or concept that I want to commit to. Depending on glazing options or whether we can paint etc.... I may want to go with all pastel colors for a contrast between social male and female gender norms. I will work on finding that inspiration, closing up the head, and making it look more masculine by adding features this week!

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For this project, I mainly utilized the coil method. I made the neck as a base and coiled around starting with the chin. For now I am only doing test placements of the main features.

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My symbol represents someone who sees the future. That’s why he has a third eye on his forehead. I made up this character, it was a very challenging experience. I squashed the head by accident and I couldn’t make it the right shape. After I hallowed it out the bust kept on cracking. When I hallowed out the next it lost its shape.

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For this bust I used the coil method although I cheated and made slabs instead. I got carried away as
usual. I saw a button in a box and shoved it the eyehole I hadn’t sculpted yet. I used the Philippe Faraut method for the left eye. And the KiKi shoving method for the right eye. I love combining cool pieces of wood with projects. I’ll find one for this.

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For my human bust I just wanted to have the figure look as real as possible and I wanted it to look proportional. I’m still working on a symbolic element to put on it but I think i’m gonna go with snakes. I think it will look really elegant with my figures sharp features.

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Sketch

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I added (and I intend to add more) sea plants and other sea creatures into the base. Some positive bas relief and some negative.

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Before ornamentation I also added braids of hair. the entire bust was scratched with the comb you get at Home Depot

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More detail... I keep adding when its covered I'm done.  

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More detail... I keep adding when its covered I'm done.  

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I have been doing a lot of babysitting lately for grandchildren and thinking about infant and child heads and faces.  I roughed this in over about 60 minutes.  

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Hollowing the toddler’s head.

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Head reconnected.

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I took too much out of the head and consequently had to build up behind the ears because there were soft spots that were caving in.  🙄

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I took too much out