Wire Figure

My first attempt at both making a human figure, and also working with wire. It was all trial and error, and guessed the whole time. I kept changing my mind and coming up with new ideas of how to make the body's shapes, which is why the style slightly changes throughout, but it adds variation, so, I win!

It's roughly 8"x 12". I wrapped wire to make it thicker to make an inner bone structure, and wrapped all the joints so they stood out. I tried to make all the knots that hold the wire the same. I specifically placed so that they would provide movement as well. I got incredably frustrated working on this, I can't even describe how frustrated I got. But, after I created the hands and feet was able to continue working on it optomistically! The legs are my favorite part. They were the hardest, but the most fun to create because I wanted them to be very defined.

Popsicles!

College is So Much FUN!

Yesterday we were given 100 popsicle sticks, and a container of elmers glue, and were told to create a sculpture that had a feeling of defying gravity, and the feeling of movement.
We had to use ALL 100 sticks, and had to be done in 2 hours.

This is what I came up with. It is about a foot long, and 6 inches tall. It's hard to tell in the picture, but the end on the right side doesn't touch the ground.

I was really pumped about this project! It made me feel like I was six again! Ha, and I thought we would get cool expensive art materials in college, boy, was I wrong!

Human Figure

After creating a small wire figure of Liz in this pose, I had to make a much larger figure, out of any material we wanted.
I ended up creating a 5'4" life size replica of liz (with a few tweeks for good proportion). In this pose, it stands about 3 1/2 feet tall by 4 1/2 feet long.

I used wire, suran wrap, and tissue paper. I also added lights on the inside of it, so that it has a warm glowing fire effect. The lights really transform the structure! They add emphasis to the legs, and creates more contrast in the colors, and the clear seran wrap.
Some parts you can see the interior as well as exterior because of the clear wrap and you can see the wire structure too.
The feet and hands are the only elements that are just wire (the feet are actually both right feet too--oops!)

All in all this project took me about 30 hours to finish. I was so sick of it when it was finished, but now i'm really happy with how it turned out! Plus I got 100% which i'm pretty psyched out of my mind about!

Eventually I will put up more pictures to show a bit more of it in detail with close up and lights. I have to show it off because i'm really Freaking Proud of it! ((ps. Em named it Corrina))