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Here I started sculpting the base of my tree. 

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The picture above is three different sculptures of a ribbon heart and a flower. 

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Here are my 2 truths and a lie represented with clay. 1. I played softball for 10 years and quit last year 2. I went snorkeling in Hawaii and touched an eel. 3. As a kid I was in 2 sea world shows.

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After 2 truths and 1 lie other people sculpted and added on to my original sculpture, this is the end result. 

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Most people affiliate the sun as happy and bright therefore to signify something it is not I sculpted a sun that is raining or crying.

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In this sculpture I rolled out 3 circles to make a snowman along with flattening out part of my clay to make a smiley face. The last sculpture I made was a lollipop which involved me rolling out the clay as well as pinching it together to give it that circular swirly shape. 

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Today our assignment was to pick a brown bag and feel the item inside without looking at it. This was my end product as well as the mystery item revealed (a key holder). 

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I began working on my main piece of the project which is going to be a whale jumping out of the water. Here is the start/base of the whale. 

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This is the background of my autobiographical wall relief along with my wall supports. I decided to make a cut out of the outline of Lake Tahoe to represent my background. 

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In this class period I worked on the shaping of my whale to make it more realistic with straighter edges, bigger base, and skinner head. 

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This is when I first started sculpting my fins of the whale before making them more realistic by thinning out the edges. 

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This is my background of Lake Tahoe flipped over. 

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This is when I first connected my whale to my background. 

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This is when I began adding details on the whale such as the ventral grooves and the blowhole. 

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He I added the fins to the whale and added supports so they would stay up. 

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Here I finished details on the whale as well as began adding ripples to the water. 

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This is after I changed the look of the water ripples by rounding them to look more realistic. 

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Here is the final picture from one perspective. 

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Here is the second final picture that showcases the other side of the whale. 

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A Reach For The Light

I live in darkness

A place where one feels trapped in the endless pitch black depths of the sea

I live so deep in my own thoughts

It’s almost like i'm drowning

In search of air

In search for the long lost light

I follow the stray stream of light and hope cautiously knowing its consequences

I decide to give reality one more chance as I glide so peacefully through the rigid waters

I begin to race upward as I feel my emptiness take grab of me again

I am almost to the surface when suddenly I break the tension

My eyes are blinded by the light

My skin burns from the sudden glow of the sun

But my lungs, my lungs become filled

My body becomes relieved and lifted from all pressures

And once again I feel at peace

As my eyes begin to adjust I see the great wonders of the world apart from darkness

I suddenly feel like I belong

Until once again I feel the sudden smack against the water

A smack that caused a tidal wave to my life but only a ripple to others

Because after all it's just a never ending cycle

A cycle of hope and disappointment

Where every reach for the light

Is just a sudden fall back into the darkness

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Here is my inspiration for the background of the project

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These are 2 of my pictures that I used for reference to sculpt my whale. 

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Here are more reference pictures of the whale as well as a close up reference of the fin. 

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Here is my tree smoothed out and ready to start adding the leaves. 

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Here is part of my progress in adding triangle slabs to my tree. 

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This is more progress on my tree after all the slabs are added. 

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This is when i first started sculpting my present and shaping the top incense holder. 

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This picture shows me experimenting weather i should make the present the “tree trunk” or just by itself as an intense holder. 

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This was my first attempt at creating the bow for my present. 

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Here is portrays my final product of both my tree and the present together. 

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This is the final of my Christmas tree. 

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Along with that here is the final product of my present which doubles as an incense holder on top. 

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Here I began to shape and press in the finger nails as well as I finished getting rid of all square edges. 

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Here I moved the CMC joint forward as well as began adding some of the majors and creat the webbing between the fingers. 

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Here I bent some of my fingers in which the hand is only standing on my pinky and thumb. 

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Here I finished adding most of my majors in the palm and fingertips. 

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Here I split my hand in half to hollowed it out and create an opening at the bottom of the wrist.  

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Here I connected my hand back together. 

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Here I continued to shape my majors and take away square edges. 

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Finally I let my hand dry over night so I could add some of the minors. 

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Here is the finished product of my hand from this point of view. 

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After creating a rough shape of my bowl I cut it in half and hollowed it out. 

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Here is the bowl after I cut the top off and combined the 2 separate pieces. 

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Here is the cutout of my whale tail to give it a general shape before making it more realistic 

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Here is another bowl I made at home with the footing 

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Here is the front of my bowl after I hollowed the middle out and added some of the irregular facial features onto the bowl. 

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Here is my whale bowl with the tail attached 

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Here is a final picture of my whale bowl

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Here is the start of my project with an oval figure 

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Here is the process of me building up my mask to change the facial features from the oval shape. 

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Here is the process of me building up my mask to build new facial features. 

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Here is my wheat pasted mask after I added my 5 depth changes. 

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Here is my mask after I used speckle and sanded it down

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Here is my mask after I painted it black and added white dots to the beans. 

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This is my mask after I glued on all of the broken mirror pieces. 

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Here is my mask after I added the wiring to the ears.

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here is my mask after I finished adding the blue rocks as well as the white shells to the surface. 

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Here is my final mask after I added the projections onto the back. 

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Here is the beginning shape of my cowboy boot. 

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Here is my boot with more detailed and a more realistic shape. 

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Here is my boot completely hollowed out. 

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Here is my scull before sculpting out the eye sockets and cheekbone

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Here is me adding an incorrect bone to my skull

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This is after I fixed the incorrect bone and after I added the zygomatic arch

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This is my first attempt half circle bone although I made it too big 

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Here is another attempt at this bone where I made the opening smaller as well as I added clay below the scull to act as a platform for it to stand on when I take it off the pole

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Here is after I hollowed out my scull and is about to slip and score it back together

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Here is where I added extra clay to where my front teeth will go since there is a natural overbite there

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Here is one of my first attempts at sculpting the teeth

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Here is where I sculpted my teeth and the gaps between them were too big

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This is the updated version of my scull with a new set of bottom teeth with limited gaps 

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Here is where I used a dental tool to pick out the gaps in the teeth and the gum line on the upper teeth

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Here is after I put the gum line on the bottom teeth and the bumps above the teeth to show how the tooth continues below the gum line

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This is after put brown and black shoe polish on my cowboy boots