Balsa wood: Side 1

The word I chose was luxurious. I find it difficult to approach non-objective art, so it took me a while to come up with the images for our ten qualities; some of those I chose were expensive, attractive, fancy and deluxe. From those images, I chose one from each word and translated it to clay. Working with clay was harder than I thought it would be. I had what I wanted pictured in my mind but when I tried to make it out of the clay, it was just not cooperating. After finally finishing up those ten clay models, I chose the one I thought best represented my word and created it out of wax. Last, working with the balsa wood was the most difficult part. I didn’t cope too well with the deductive process involved with this project, especially because I stayed away from angular edges and went with a curvilinear approach. I wasn’t entirely happy that my form, firsthand, looks like the letter S. Other than that, I enjoyed the painting process and feel that my color combinations do relate to my word. I chose purple because it is associated with royalty, green because it is associated with wealth and gold because it is associated with richness. Overall, I learned different carving techniques from this project, how to use a power drill and how to effectively approach wood sculpture.

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