Drew Heather Boylan Savannah College of Fine Arts Senior Thesis

Senior Studio Ii

Terminal Organization for the Quarter

I know that on canvas there is no blog entry due, but but in example ane shows up (because it is on the syllabus schedule) and as well considering it will aid me to accept another re-create of this list for reference, here is the final organization of props that I have and ones that I need for my four figures:

Fig 1

Sculpture and Textbooks (+)

Desk-bound, Window, Backpack –> Buy/guild/infringe afterwards break

Kid's drawing and Resume –> Create during Spring Break***

Fig Two

Sculpture (+)

"Phone" Screen –> Bank check on Leslie after break and order screen

Fig Iii

Sculpture (+)

Tech Objects (+)

Actress Tech –> Check westward/Celeste and Recycling Center after break

Fig Iv

Sculpture (+)

Yards of Fabric –> Collect over break at Joanne's/colorful or patterned fabric, at to the lowest degree 6 ft. high each***

Items with a (+) are finished/acquired. Items with an –> and post-obit text will be completed after returning from break. Items with an –> followed by text and *** will exist completed over spring break.

Just a Breather

This weekend I had scheduled going over the props for my start two figures but I realized it won't really accept that much time and annihilation I may need I'll have to get over spring break anyway. I decided I'd take a break this weekend and push button going over all of the props to adjacent weekend. The week after that I'll simply be focussing on my final presentation.

Drew, My Hero

This weekend I finished my last sculpture thanks to Drew. There's actually non much to say, it went about the same equally the last three wrapping sessions and was relatively smooth sailing. The next two weekends will exist concerned with prop preparations and then final presentations. I'm looking forrad to reorganizing over spring break and finishing this whole thing up adjacent quarter. Huzzah!

Photo of the finished mold:

Celeste is the All-time

This weekend I completed my tertiary sculpture and Celeste was kind enough to volunteer for that and then Sierra didn't have to stand up-in for a second one. There'southward not really much to say virtually it because the procedure is about the aforementioned every bit the others, except that we've been learning that keeping the wrapping loose on the models is much better for getting the plastic off. However, information technology can brand the sculpture itself less durable, and then finding a balance is best. This sculpture I also sewed differently. Instead of sewing it in a basic standing position with long strings that tin can let the figure to movement about, I sewed the kite cord tighter in some areas so that the effigy volition concur a crouched/seated position meliorate. Here is Celeste beingness wrapped and here is what the end-result looks like…which is slightly possessed:

Sculpting Sierra

This week was the second sculpture of the series. Sierra was kind plenty to allow me to apply her as a model and the overall process went the same equally the kickoff and pretty well. However, we did acquire that it is all-time for models to wear full-length pants and shirts so that there is a bulwark between the pare and plastic so that the molding and cut process is safer/easier. Here is the end upshot:

From Sketch to Print

This week I had but a couple of tasks because I mainly spent the weekend organizing and practicing my mid-betoken presentation.

Bated from that, I did some new sketches for my quaternary figure to think almost over the adjacent three weeks as I sculpt the other iii figures and see how they get. I also printed the "thoughts and feelings" on transparencies at a print shop in Napa. If I have fourth dimension this weekend (likely) I will as well cut out all of the phrases and then that I don't accept to practice it later.

Here are my effigy four sketches and ideas:

Since I will be sculpting Drew every bit my model for this figure on apathy, I am still thinking of having it stand in front of Drew's ain thesis project at the gallery show (this will serve equally an inside joke for those that notice the credit to him in my artist statement and realize he is also the watercolorist featured at the show whom I've placed the sculpture of him in forepart of. Note that his own thesis projection is the contrary of apathy. Hopefully for those that catch on this will help to lighten the mood after such a depressing topic such as mine.)

The 4 stick figures are the gestures/stances I am trying to determine on for the terminal version. I accept created transparent "thoughts and feelings" for this figure as well, withal this one will not include "exterior" sources of information (newspaper or book clippings, etc) since it is meant to brandish a person that has taken in so much they can no longer retain new data or care about information technology. Instead I might use plain newsprint to draw "gray feelings" that Professor Daley mentioned. They will either exist torn pieces of paper or strips and bandage-similar. I remember I similar the bandage look improve because it reminds exist of putting a band-aid over a trouble (such as the previous effigy'due south mental attitude which was panic-stricken) and reacting to that with nothingness to mask the hurting. It would as well probably wait more cohesive with everything else since it'southward all in rectangular strips and on top of that make the figure look mummified; a person who is technically alive but really dead within.

Here are the transparencies with "thoughts and feelings" phrases I had printed:

I had them printed in black and colour. I am going to cut all of them out and decide on the days that I sculpt what works best, just all the figures will either exist in color or only in blackness to go on them cohesive. The reason I gave myself the choice for both was that the black might non prove upwards best on transparent cloth in mid-air, so I idea vibrant colors might stand up out meliorate. Nosotros'll see what shows upward all-time, but in case the color was better I too did them in 4 colors: blue, purple, red and gray (not really a colour simply whatever). The blue phrases would exist for the kid under-going all-encompassing teaching and would denote the idea of a sterile or streamlined progress. Blue also brings upward the idea of water/absorbency, meaning a child who is at their most absorbent country in life and will be most affected by what they learn. The purple is for the teen experiencing social media for the kickoff time. Similar to pink, purple makes me call back of materialism which is shallow similar social media normally. The crimson is for the third young-adult figure having a panic attack (Ie cherry for crisis/emergencies). The fourth figure would have grey phrases for "gray emotions" as I mentioned before. Subtle but of import, I hope the colored phrases work out. If non, I'll only stick to blackness or whatever is most legible.

Cut & Paste

This week I tackled the part of my project I've been dreading nearly: sorting through that huge pile of books, magazines and newspapers and cutting out the stuff that might exist useful for my figures.

Merely I didn't start with that. I really started by writing all the "thoughts and feelings" for the figures. At this point, I as well decided effigy 4 won't take whatsoever since it is supposed to depict apathy.

I also chose Leslie to do the pattern for my "phone screen" so I wrote upward some instructions and sketches for her to work from.

An example of some of the "thoughts and feelings":

Notes for Leslie:

Piles of cutouts for figures:

Concluding Materials and Tests

This week/weekend I was able to collect pretty much the rest of what I'll need to create this project. I rummaged through the recycling center and a Goodwill in Santa Rosa on Friday and found a bunch of old tech items that I can clean up and plow in to my "wall" for the third figure. I was also able to get a few other props and test another small sail of plexiglass for my second figure's "phone screen/facebook profile" which I will include pictures of. I didn't similar how my start exam of it turned out over break and I don't like this one either. I had looked for culling ways of creating this type of "screen" or "profile" expect that could hang in front end of my effigy but to no avail. I idea I would be stuck cutting and pasting transparencies on to a piece of plexiglass that I have merely equally you can see in the following pictures, both types of adhesive I used to test on it (E6000 and packing tape) just look janky. However, just before making this blog mail service I had an epiphany. When I googled printing on plexiglass or acrylic sheets and even when I asked at FedEx and other print shops about printing on transparent posters, I couldn't find whatsoever answers. But and then I remembered Vista Print which I've used before to make business cards. I wondered if they made acrylic signs for offices and then I looked information technology upwards and certain enough they do. They tin can even use frosted acrylic, drill holes into it for hanging and y'all tin use your own uploaded design.

So, new programme: I am going to become ahead with my schedule equally information technology is written in the concluding postal service and forth the way I will keep my eye out for the concluding few remaining props which are a window frame, a desk, a backpack and more tech devices (not that I'll need more, I've got a ton already but it will requite me options and make me feel ameliorate to keep collecting). I will also talk to Professor Kyle this calendar week about getting help on photoshopping my design for the "screen" that I demand and so that I tin upload that to Vista Print and take it shipped to me, with holes already drilled in it. That volition save me time and also look much meliorate for the end result. If for some reason this program doesn't work out, and then I tin render to the janky method of collaging a screen together with tape and my own sheet of plexiglass. The test that I did this weekend will serve every bit the general model/sketch, although I'll practice another i with all the details of what I want included in the photoshopped version soon.

Here are some images of the materials collected and my tests:

Saran Wrap and packing tape for my figures, bubble wrap for the "tech wall" insulation (at that place'due south also bodily house insulation in a bag under my desk that I found literally on the street nigh my parents' medical warehouse).

Nabbed these computers from my parents' offices.

Besides nabbed these quondam books of ours from my parents offices and the newspapers from the recycling center.

A bunch of tech junk from Goodwill and the recycling heart. It's really a actually deep box and in that location'due south way more in in that location than there appears from the surface.

The piles of appliances and electronics I went through merely before dumpster diving at the recycling centre.

My second plexiglass test (first 1 was and then bad information technology's not even worth showing).

E6000, not a fan.

Packing record, as well not a fan (although it works over the Saran Wrap somehow).

Back to Work

Hullo there!

And then this is my new weblog for the 2d phase of our Senior Thesis, the "Production" stage. I've already gathered as many materials as I could from habitation in Southern California and I plan to collect the rest of what I'll need this weekend. I've also washed a test on some plexiglass for one of the props only I'll need to do that again since I'one thousand not sure the result is exactly what I wanted, so that will be included in an upcoming mail service.

Today I finished creating a schedule for myself, including what is on our two syllabi for this class so that I take everything I demand in one place (this will besides be posted to my project board and a re-create kept in my telephone or planner). Here is the schedule all the way through the end of the yr:

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