I'm kind of cheating here because this isn't a recent project, but oh well.
Over the summer, I took a bunch of foundations art classes at Ball State so I could switch my major to Visual Communications Design without being in college for five years and one of those classes was my first experience with sculpting, or any 3-d work.
We practiced with a lot of mediums in that class, working with wire and even doing a glass pour, but by far my favorite thing to work with was wood. I wasn't sure going into the project because I'd always had kind of an aversion to 3-d work, but I thought wood was great to work with. The tools were fun to use and the material was really beautiful where you let the wood grain show through. For my project I made a bas relief of an Alice Neel portrait of "Frank O'Hara".
Over the summer, I took a bunch of foundations art classes at Ball State so I could switch my major to Visual Communications Design without being in college for five years and one of those classes was my first experience with sculpting, or any 3-d work.
We practiced with a lot of mediums in that class, working with wire and even doing a glass pour, but by far my favorite thing to work with was wood. I wasn't sure going into the project because I'd always had kind of an aversion to 3-d work, but I thought wood was great to work with. The tools were fun to use and the material was really beautiful where you let the wood grain show through. For my project I made a bas relief of an Alice Neel portrait of "Frank O'Hara".
Originally I picked the painting because I loved his profile with his wonky nose but I ended up altering the background to give it more dimension. I shaped the wood pieces, priming the parts I was going to paint with white.
I painted the shirt, hair and background with acrylic and the face (where I wanted a wood grain to show through) I barely covered with watered down acrylic.
Once I'd painted everything how I wanted it, I attached it to the wooden frame in the back and then added on the black outer frame.