Second week back and I came back into class with the very vauge idea of perhaps wanting to create some sort of weaponry, perhaps a gun, after looking at the artist Wim Delvoye. I felt this was going to look pretty inadequate compared to some other peoples ideas. But I just could rush an idea, and one will never come into my head when I feel pressurised. (Unfortunately). So I spent most of this weeks lesson playing around with the materials we had been introduced to late in last weeks lesson/this morning. I played around with the clay to come up with the basic form of a handgun and work from there. After I did that, I got to use the vacuum forming machine which made a plastic cast of my gun. I then could pour some plaster into the cast to get a solid shape.
It was fun getting to use the plaster, which I hadnt had a play with for a while now. I cant say my gun turned out spectacularly, but it sure was a start. I felt by looking at the plaster gun that I would stick to this subject. It was quite striking and imposing, and I definately felt it was worth a shot over the next few weeks.
I went away at the end of this week with the idea in my mind to look at some other shapes of guns and get more of an idea of what I would be sculpting, instead of using guess work.
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