dude dude DUDE

Ok so the skull is slowly but surely making its way. so far it still looks like a hunk of clay. BUT im just taking my time i guess. Anyways, while I do that IN class OUTside of class I am going to be welding a life sized rib cage to go along with my legs and arms. My younglife leader is actually a pretty sick welder and he is going to help out! jacked. he has made some art of his own and things like a funcitonal metal coffee table for this living room. I am going to use old rusted up metal scraps. Hopefully i will find some old car parts or gears or stuff like that

Roll the bones baby

Yo ok. so I decided that I am going to TRY to scuplt a human skull and jaw bone (mandible) and weld a rib cage out of scrap pieces of metal. Welding i think will save me alot of time and I am excited to learn a new skill. The skull will be no easy task though. I am doing a lot of research right now on the size and shapes of different peoples' skulls. I also am looking up diseases or different kinds of trauma that I could incorporate into the design of the skull.

yay party tommmorrroow

Finally! the semester is over and we have a critique/ food party next class. I am done with two knee joints and a Sarah Davis inspired tube. One leg is based upon Paget's Diseases and is curved inward alot. Like I said in my last post, My other leg is fully healthy except for a metal knee replacement. I do need help with ideas of what to use for the knee replacement. I was thinking o just cutting out a small piece of sheet metal and burning it up a little bit but who knows if that will turn out good. Anyways, yay party tomorrow.

KnEe rEpLaCmEnT

Ok. I would first like to admit that I am infact pretty confused as of the direction of the rest of my concentration. Since one of my femur bones died out before I could finish it, i think i want to try to distract the view away from the shape and size of the knee joint by adding some metal and making a knee replacement. Bad idea? probably. don't judge me. This knee replacement will resemble a real one like this photo but I will most likely be changing it quite a bit into something cooler. Don't as me what yet because i do not know. But i can promise that it will blow your mind.

Sçapŭla+Clāvïcŀe= bro, let us chill

My third project that is due tomorrow is the righ and left collar bones and shoulder blades. I think they turned out pretty well so far (they are still greenware). Luckily though neither of these both play a role in the alteration of other bones inspired by birth defects. Which brings me to my next point: I think I only want to focus on bone birth defects in my skeleton rather than also including just breaks and prosthetics. I think this will be more impactful and more interesting than a skeleton just with like a broken arm and screws in its head.

Sapula+Clavicle= yes

So far, I have sculpted my fingers hands, forearms and upper arms. This all will complete two of my three required works of art to be turned in on DEC> 17th. My third project will be a pair of collar bones and shoulder blades (right and left scapluli and clavici). In order to join ALL of my bones together, I will be poking sets of holes into every bone will the clay is still tangible. I will then join them all with black wire once it is completely done. Tomorrow in class I have to finish poking these holes and i think I am going to intentionallly break one arm (the arm that does not show signs of arthritis in its hand). Overall i am very excited about my work even though some of my next few projects (rib cage, skull, vertebrea..) will be an enormous challenge

arms?

I have finished the hands! now to finish the actual arm bones. last class I finished the LEft and Right Radii and ulnas (The two bones that make up the forearm). Tomoorrow My goal is to make both right and left humerus bones (the upper arm bones). This may take a good amount of clay so I do have to keep that in mind for the future. For my third project due before the break I am going to make both left and right shoulder blades (scapula) and collar bones (clavicle).

<----- So together it will all look like this!