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Junior Studio Work PART 2

For my second project of the semester I made a pair of hand gloves that were stuffed and had clay sculptures. The progress of making the doll really impacted me and made me realize how much I enjoyed it so I wanted to continue with doing the same thing. 

Here are some final pictures of the front of the palm area. I am in love with sculpting eyes for some reason so I replaced the finger nails with the eye sculptures like how I did with the doll. 

Here is the back of the hand. I decorated the seams with pearls and ruffles since I believe it complimented the fabric pretty well. 

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Junior Studio Work PART 1

Starting my new year I was a bit intimidated. I honestly did not have the best time during my previous semester but I knew that I wanted to test myself for my Spring semester. Spring semester was were I started doing a lot of sketching and I still do to this day. My sketchbook felt so flexible and I could sense the need for it to display all of my art dump. I finally felt inspired. 

This page displays some of the ideas I had brewing in my head. I am still quite excited to execute the other ideas whenever I get the opportunity and time to make them. It was helpful to include a material list and timeline to keep myself on track. 

After figuring out what I wanted to make I also wanted to include how I felt about it. Like actually felt about it. Not as an assignment but feelings on where this piece came from in my head. Especially when it is a piece after the pandemic. I had such an intense art block before this semester so this semester was very impactful for me artistically. This piece came from a place of wrapping my head around being perceived and having the thought that people are constantly perceiving me. I was also just asking myself a lot of questions on how this piece would mean to me and the thoughts that would run through my head while I work on it. 

Doing multiple sketches helped with visualizing how I wanted the doll to look like and how the form would affect my own perspective on it. 

This is the final result. It was a little bit spooky to have it hung up but the affect having it be able to be standing up was so exciting. I felt that really humanized it. 

Does it not look so freaky?

For the fabric I used clothes I had stored away for donations. I sewed them up and used poly-fil to stuff the limbs. I wanted to use different pieces of fabric since there were so many textures available, I really just wanted to have fun and see how all the fabrics worked together.

 I think the unsettling vibe of not even the feet touching the floor works really well in this picture.

How I was able to make this piece stand was by using an embroidery hoop and tying a bunch of red yarn on it that is also attached to the doll body. To decorate the pieces of yarn I decided to make these charms made out clay with different shapes. I added eye balls and horns and used different types of paint colors. 

Here is the left hand! Since there was not head I still wanted to use facial features so I decided to ass them as finger nails. I loved making the eyes so there is going to be a lot of eye motifs in my pieces, especially out of clay!!

This is the right hand! 

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Welcome to my creation hub!

This is where I would like to share my creations to people who are like minded or wish to appreciate my work. Currently, I enjoy working with fibers, soft sculpture, and clay. I hope to expand on wearable sculptures and installations. 

Any feedback or just a simple conversation is super welcomed! ♡

Some things about myself;

I am 23 and currently in my last year of college.

I have 3 cats named Inky, Suki, and Miso who are my world and would do anything for. 

I am into anything medieval (Lord of the Rings, DND, Game of Thrones, etc.)

I wish to collab with other artists in performance and crafting.

I would love to learn and talk to other artists who use the same techniques as I do. 

Thank you so much for reading :’)