Lamb Soap Sculpture

Started off with the basic shapes of my lamb. 

So it's not perfect, but my proportions worked out pretty well. 

This is the lamb that gets altered. 

First thing I did was cut off the head of the lamb, because I just couldn't get rid of it. 

Next thing was to melt off the feet because they were the next most recognizable part of the lamb, besides the head. 

I wanted to add more soap to the sculpture, so I took a piece from the original soap bar and microwaved both together so they would stick and form a platform for the lamb. 

Next I took pieces from a Christmas tree ornament and looped them through the soap. 

I boiled the piece next and it lost a lot of the soap so I added the shavings from carving and they stuck to the sculpture. 

I put the sculpture in the freezer so the pieces would bond together. Afterwards the pieces that didn't melt together fell off. 

Last but not least I added the head back on with a piece of wire. 

Drawings

Mask Creation

Finalized mask video and picture. I decided that since my mask was based on creativity, I would create my own environment for a photo shoot.

Mask Identity Update

I got the whole wire frame masked and ready to go. Now I have to put it together and hopefully that will be easy. I'm really excited about how well my horns/swirls came out. All around it is a little less symmetrical than I hoped it would be, but overall it looks amazing!

Wire Frame

So I started figuring out what I wanted to do for my full face mask and this is what I came up with.

I think of a lot of things when I look at this mask. The swirls remind me of a heart, but at the same time I think of devilish horns. Another meaning is that Native Americans thought that animals with horns represented creativity.  This is how far I have gotten. I have the bottom piece, it's a little crooked, but I think it will turn out well.

Paper Stacking Community

My idea completely changed from my original inspiration of the stacking stones, as I attempted to make rocks my figure formed a shape that made me think of a hut. I decided to go with the idea and make a hut. Huts often remind me of remote villages out in the forests of south america or africa. The sense of community within these villages is strong because they are all inter-dependent on each other. I left a door size space throughout the piece to resemble people being able to come and go in their neighbor's huts. I even enjoyed the process so much that I started creating another hut.

My apple unfortunately did not come out as well as my piece of choice. I'm not very good with observational art. I built up the top piece too much and didn't focus on the ridges of the apple. When I took a break to work on my choice piece I became so involved that I didn't pay much attention to the apple.

Inspiration Images for my Creative Stacked Paper

I remember when I was younger I saw a movie or tv show where these monks would try and stack stones and I wanted to be able to do it so bad! Unfortunately I did not have the discipline or patience to be successful in this endeavor, but maybe this time around I can be.  Stacking paper into stones and then stacking them on top of each other.

When I was a kid I actually used to collect rocks. My favorites were the ones with flecks of silver inside of them. I thought they were the prettiest the way the sunlight would relfect of the silver.