Vessels Project

For the vessels project I made a football that was made out of clay. It was supposed to have holes in it so it could act as a lamp shade but i became pressed for time and forgot to add them.I picked clay for this project because it would be the easiest way to create the unique shape the football. Although I selected the clay to use for the football shape it was still very difficult, I had to almost do a paper mache type creation by wrapping balls of newspaper taped together in a football shape. I f I could redo this project i would try to work on capturing the actual shape of the football because my football was very lop sided.

Meet The Artist: Bryant Holsenbeck

Before Meeting Her: Holsenbeck is an artist who takes old trash and transforms them into works of art, mainly animals. I'd expect her visit tomorrow to be kind of a struggle because she is having to teach us so much in such a little time. The project is gonna be rough since this is a new form of art to all of us. I'm going to attempt to do a polar bear.

After Meeting The Artist:  I met my expectations that I set myself for this project; I didn't feel like this would be terrible but I knew it wouldn't be amazing considering this was my first time attempting such a sculpture. A major problem I had with this project was getting even a general shape out of the wire to use for my bear.