My Metal Sculpture Class is Winding Down...

Next Thursday is my final metal welding sculpture class at the local community college.  It has been both challenging and fun.  From a welding point of view, the enclosure project was the most technical with the self-portrait running a close second.  The found object project was the most fun as I introduced several ceramic elements and there was less metal manipulation.  Just assemble and go!  I made two found object sculptures.

The first project of the semester was to create a wall hanging self portrait.  My sculpture below, titled "Middle Brained:  In Search of the Artist a Self-Portrait", is currently hanging in the juried Student Art Show at the Yavapai College Gallery.

My enclosure sculpture titled "What Weather?" was based off of a sketch I had created over a year ago that I wanted to create in clay.  This metal and ceramic sculpture will eventually end up outside on a wooden post in my backyard grape vineyard.

The final project was to create a sculpture from found objects.  Since I knew that I wanted to use ceramic pieces I sketched the design and created the ceramic pieces well ahead of the project due date.  As a result, I had time to create a second found object sculpture.

The first sculpture is made from found objects; a VW clutch (or so someone told me...), three railroad spikes, a flange, flat gear and rusty pipe.  This sculpture is titled "White Forest Found"

The second sculpture is created from found objects; square tubing, two railroad spikes and manzanitta branches.  On this piece I experimented with "brazing" to add the decorative brass color on the square tubing.  This sculpture is titled "The Industrial Revolution Meets Mother Nature".

I have signed up to take the advanced class in the fall!