Year 3 Week 1

The start of a new term and although I have a piece of wood at home I would like to start work on I couldn't resist getting a piece of stone from the store room at The Mary Ward Centre.



I didn't have anything in mind for stone so as Paul, the tutor has suggested in the past I just spent a while looking at it from all angles for inspiration.

I purposely picked a piece that was oddly shaped to increase my chances of being inspired.

Strangely the side that inspired me most was the flat, cut sides.

I made a couple of maquettes from clay to try out an idea I had. It is very roughly based on Cycladic sculpture which I really like

The second maquette is designed to suit the stone shape better but I like the look of it more anyway.

I didn't think it was worth keeping either of those maquettes for firing.

Summer 2011 Session 3

The squirrel is finished at last. Just in time for the start of a new term at The Mary Ward Centre and a new project. The final stage was polishing with various different types of polish to make it as dark as possible.