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When creating my head, and after looking at tons of head sculptures, I decided I wanted to sculpt a little girl with long flowy hair, and then I wanted to have my head resemble a strong Roman man with a beard, and then a young man with a sharp jawline, and then I want to have the face dropping, and then I wanted to create an alien. It wasn’t until i actually started sculpting that I realized I wanted to have my head resemble an alien sea creature. I used scraping tools, hook tools, knives, and the most important tool: my hands to sculpt the clay into the images I had in my mind. From every single material and tool I learned something new: with the clay I learned that it drys way too fast and once it’s dry it’s gone, so it needs to be wrapped up and moist, with the scraping tools I learned that the harder you push the more you ruin your sculpture so you have to be gentle and cautious, with the knives I learned not to use the knives, and with my hands I understood that I wasn’t aware of my own strength.

It is apparent that my head looks nothing like my model or the pictures I tried to get inspiration from. Instead I used all of my preliminary work to discover the shape of the head, the shape of the eyes, ears, and mouth.

For a title for my sculpture, I’d say “ Beautifully creepy” this oxymoron shows that the work, though it is creepy and abnormal, has a beautiful form to it.

After doing this sculpture I can confidently say that the next time I do any work with clay I will make sure I do extreme preliminary work with models, ideas, pictures, plans, etc. Due to the fact that clay dries so fast it is crucial to have a basic idea of what you think you want to do before you actually perform it.

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Hanging sculptures are powerful because when you paint a picture everything is there for you, you can sketch out your idea and transfer it to a canvas, but when you create a hanging sculpture you must rely on gravity to transform your sketch into art. The artist must manipulate gravity to form their muse and that is why hanging sculptures are so powerful.