Sculpture Week Two: Growth; Development

Week Two, for me, was definitely more about taking what I had learned in the first week and going one step further with it; to get out of my comfort zone and work on a larger scale.
Taking inspiration from some of Goldsworthy's work (i.e. his Clay-covered rocks), I decided to make my own interpretation/variation centering around the same idea.

Here is how I made the work:

I took a large sheet of brown paper and scrunched it up...

I then began to cover the piece in clay...

slowly working my way around...

until the entire piece was covered.



Because these two weeks were so short, I needed to find a way to make the clay dry quickly and crack just as easily.  Immediately I thought of using some sort of blow-torch, but first I needed to dry out the wet clay - so I put it into a drying cupboard in the college to leave overnight.

(I also tried using an industrial hand dryer on the ball, but I found that this process was too slow and the cracks that formed were far smaller than I had originally intended ) 

The next day I took the ball home, and used a blow-torch to damage the piece further...and also my dad helped...just a little.