Title: LEGO venture
Media: Hydrocal, Spray Paint, & Legos
Software: N/A
Specifications: 5.2” x 16.5” x 3.2”
Class: ART 202 Beginning Sculpture
Professor: Ry Mcullough
Semester/ Term: FA 16
Institution: University of Tampa
Link: http://ivettetorresart.weebly.com/portfolio.html
I made this piece by creating a larger scale clay model of a Lego figure, it was roughly 10x larger. I positioned metal sheets in the vertical center of the clay model all the way around and then covered the model in plaster to create a mold. Once dried I removed the metal sheets to help in opening the the mold and then cleaned it and placed a soap-water solution inside before re-taping the mold back together. I poured hydrocal into the mold and once that had dried I chipped off the plaster mold from the hydrocal sculpture. Originally I was going to chip off larger chunks of the sculpture and replace them with Legos but decided against it after testing the idea on the foot - it was difficult to get the Lego's to stick to the surface of the hydrocal and the process of chipping into the sculpture to create spaces for the Lego's was also problematic. The Lego sculpture is yellow because the color was originally chosen by the company to be inclusive - I like the idea that Legos allow you to be anything and encourage imagination. I positioned the small Lego figures to be apart of the sculptures display to create the narrative that the Lego construction workers were the ones who built the Lego Sculpture.
Title: Apocalypse Pink
Media: Hydrocal, Acrylic Paint
Software: N/A
Specifications: 8" x 10" x 3" (estimated)
Class: ART 202 Beginning Sculpture
Professor: Ry Mcullough
Semester/ Term: FA 16
Institution: University of Tampa
Link: N/A
I made a clay model of a cowboy boot, modeling the size roughly based on my own feet. I positioned metal sheets in the vertical center of the clay model all the way around and then covered the model in plaster to create a mold. Once dried I removed the metal sheets to help in opening the the mold. This was my first attempt ever at making a mold and it ended up breaking, thankfully not to badly. I was able to piece the mold into the two side that I wanted, and I then cleaned it and placed a soap-water solution inside before re-taping the mold back together. I poured hydrocal into the mold and once that had dried I chipped off the plaster mold from the hydrocal sculpture. After cleaning the sculpture I then painted it with acrylic using. Because the mold had broken into quite a few pieces there were certain crevices and noticeable dents within the sculpture so instead of trying to make them less noticeable I figured that I decided to emphasize on them by matching darker black tones with with neon pink.