Driftwood Sculptures

These are pieces of art created by Nagato Iwasaki.
 Not only is it amazing that he creates these figures using only driftwood, but he makes these figures human size, if not larger.

I appreciate his artwork because I see how much thought he must put into these pieces before he creates them, and also I like the locations he chooses to put them in.

↜ I like the way this photo shows not only the piece, but also the place where it is created. For me, it is important to know the thought and location that helped to put the piece together, because it is not only the art that matters but the planning that goes into it.

As seen in the two images below, he also places his work in areas and shapes that they wouldnt usually be expected.

Plaster Pieces

•  This artist is named  Garret R. Odenwelder.

• He creates plaster pieces and other media. 

• However, his plaster pieces were not too common, but those that I happen to come across caught my eye.

• These two photos to the right were the two pieces that caught my eye when I was searching for my artist. 

• I like there pieces because I feel like they show a lot of emotion. It is interesting to see all of them at different angles, I feel like it shows how it is 3Dementional rather than being up against a wall. Because when the pieces bend over, it leaves you to think what the purpose of that action was.

• When I was taking a close look at pieces, I realised that these are the same sculptures in each photo... Am I the only one who realised?

John Lopez

This artist is named John Lopez, who is still alive and making art today.

All of his pieces are designed with great thought and are life size or larger.

 His first project was to create 42 sculptures and line them up and down the streets of a city in the west.

He creates animals such as bison, horses, bears and deer.

 All of his sculptures are created with materials from pins to pitchforks and they are all recyled.

  

Nick Mackman - Ceramic Dogs

This is Nick Mackman. He creates ceramic dogs + other animals.

He creates pieces with wonderful personality and detail. Whenever he is planning to create a ceramic
model, he puts a lot of thought into deciding the correct position and angle. Once he has decided his details, he takes a close look into the texture and thickness of the coat of the animal. Then he scales out his pattern to glaze.

Each one of his pieces is in the range of 13" - 25". Making it easy to mold, but harder to put realistic details into. I respect how much time and talent it must take to create something so precious as these things are.



I appreciate the way he poses his artwork in a white back room area, because I think it brings out the detail more, and it allows you to imagine what location this dog was in, rather than a given backround, which tells you where the dog is already located.








Nick Mackman creates all different types of animals, not only dogs. If you would like to look at the others, this is his website:  http://nickmackmansculpture.co.uk/





And below is an image of her in the process of creation.

Each of his pieces is an individual. Am I the only one who can't stop waiting for them to blink?

Lorraine Corrigan Paper Dogs

 
This blog is about Lorraine Corrigan and she creates paper dogs. Lorraine usually sticks to creating sighthounds, such as whippets, greyhounds, and scotish wolfhounds. She only uses paper mache, books to stage them on, and a sharpie for the eyes to create these little pups.























She has been active in making these sculptures since she was in a lower level sculpture class. She had trouble with sculpture using newspaper and so she searched for a better medium that would suit her technique.


 Soon after the beginning of her search, she came across an old book that inspired her. She then began sculpting with this paper and as she did, she discovered new techniques of how to bring a slight motion to her art work.

These techniques have allowed her to create gorgeous three dementional sighthounds.

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns makes his art work by layering different materials after creating his sculptures in wax. In the photo below you can see the texture of these flags, meaning underneath the layer of paint he has put a material,  which has left a very rigid look to these pieces. This piece is called "Three Flags" and it was made in 1958.


This piece below is known as "Painted Bronz". I like this piece, because of its different collors and different size brushes which makes it look like it was used in an actual art studio. "Painted Bronz" was made in 1960 when Jasper Johns was exactly 30 years old.


I enjoy this piece, it reminds me of the dentist. It is known as "The Critic Smiles". I think the name is very interesting in the way it goes along with the piece showing that a lot of thought probably went into naming this tooth brush. "The Critics Smile" was created in 1959


When I was searching for 3D pieces made by Jasper Johns, it was a little bit hard to find pieces that caught my eye. This may be because Jasper Johns's main type of art is painting and print making. Although he does make occaisional sculpture, it would be much easier to find his number paintings or interesting prints. However, after I was looking for a little while, I found a few pieces that were both realated to light, These are so creative and detailed.


Flash Light, 1960/1988



Flash Light II, 1960/1988



English Light Bulb, 1970


Light Bulb, 1958

Sandy Webster

Sandy Webster is a women who began basketry as her first subject in art. She makes many different types of pieces now, but bellow are examples of her mixed media work. Sandy Webster also makes paintings, drawings, and involves herself with print making. She started off in the basketry department of art, and then realised that she couldn't tell all of her stories through her basketry art work. When she decided to create other art work she put her basketry pieces aside and began to focus on art that could show her feelings with theyu way you see it and the way it was built. Sandy Webster was raised to recycle, which may be one of the reasons why she enjoys mixed media designs.



In this piece, I like the way she put the twine into the bottle instead of placing it outside of the bottle somewhere else in the box. I also enjoy the root that fits perfectly in the main box, eventhough it curves around the knot.


I think it isinteresting how all of the cutouts in the separate boxes are different shapes, some with sharp edges others with rounded edges.