The first sketch for the Little Harbour Seal sculpture was designed so that the forms would be made out of bent metal tubing. However, after some reconsideration of it's placement, I decided to make the shapes into solid forms instead.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Diddy Long Legs
This is a proposal sketch for a sculpture show based in Rochester, NH. The theme of the show is folklore, but otherwise it is completely open. And since I have yet to grow tired of making giant bugs, I thought it would be fun to base this piece on the folklore surrounding spiders.
Dragonfly Surprise!
The Metal Mantis
These were three different poses for the Metal Mantis sculpture I completed in 2010. The clients and I liked all of them for different reasons, but in the end it was the middle guy that won the show.
Nature Inspired
Towering Inferno!
Westward we go!
School for Tadpoles
Little creatures made BIG!!!
These were all proposal sketches for a sculpture project in Portsmouth, NH. Using the same technique I employed with the Giant Ant proposal I was able to show how each piece might look in the intended space. (The Giant Crab is the only one that has been finished, and he ended up in front of the Children's Museum of NH, in Dover, NH.)
The First Sculpture...
So, my first idea for Portsmouth's Overnight Art program was a giant acorn.
But soon after that sketch I decided if this were going to be my first sculpture, I should probably try to make something a bit more interesting...and so the ant was born!
I then took my sketch and colored it. And using photoshop, I placed it "on location" to show how it might look in the real world!
These are some sketches for how I envisioned the possible construction of the ant's body. Some parts of the plan I kept, but when it comes to large scale "recycled art" pieces, a lot of the process is left up to improvisation.
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