Class03_Homework_August 28th

Dear Students-
All of you have one figure stand for the skeleton and a rolling sculpture stand to work with now. Please remember to store your rolling sculpture stands in a corner of the room or somewhere else where they will not be disturbed (in the back area is a good idea). As for your figure stands holding your skeletons: in the future, it will be safest to store these in your cubby space. If you leave them on your stand, you will be in danger of having one of your classmates bump into and possibly damaging or destroying your work when moving things around to get stands. Please be mindful of your neighbors' things.

You will find the group you belong to below. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me. I will see you very soon!
Professor Urrutia

Homework for all

• Bring in your Sketchbook binder, lined paper, copier paper, dividers that go into a copier machine easily with you to class.

FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE
SKELETON
We have made a lot of progress on our skeletons. At this point you should have the complete armature formed, complete with a skinned ribcage, pelvic section and head. I passed out clay to each person and told you to start adding it to make the major bones of the form: humerus, radius, ulna, femur, fibula, tibia. This should be done before I see you on Thursday.

SKULL
The skull foundation you created in solid clay should be dried enough to begin subtracting anything extraneous away. Compare this form to the measurements you made and the actual skeleton itself. Carve it down/add so that the overall form matches in a 1:1 ratio. Remember, since we are building it to scale, if it doesn't look like what you are making, you have done something incorrectly and need to try to correct it. Do not work on any details. You only need to have the volumes correct before we meet again on Thursday. We will talk about creating the details at a later time.

PLEASE be sure you are looking at the skull and skeleton [Francis] when you are making your forms!


CONTENT PORTFOLIO
Please have your 6 maquettes ready for discussion on Thursday and your proposals completed and emailed to me. 

Class02_Homework_August 23rd

Sculpting the Figure

Homework - Take care of Francis and his fragile head [it falls apart easily!]. 

Skeleton Sketchbook Work - Please make measurements for all sides of the head on the handouts I made for you.

Each person should have 3 skull handouts. If you didn't get yours, they are in the cubby where we keep fired work at the entrance of the room. Mark lines and label these with the corresponding measurements to indicate the widths, depths, and heights of the skull. Have this work completed before coming to the next class and bring the work with you.

• Make measurements for all the parts of the top of the skull
• Make measurements for all the parts of the skull
• Make measurements for all the parts of the skull
• Make measurements for all the parts of the skull 

Sculpting the Skull - Have the basic form of the skull established

• Use about 12# of clay to make the basic form of the skull
• Create the masses of your skull in proportion to the actual skull you are looking at
• Use calipers to compare the dimensions/measurements of what you are making to Francis' actual skull

Sculpting the Skeleton - Have the wire armature together with its rib cage lined with tape by next class

• Use sighting and the handout given to you in class to make a skeleton armature and put the parts together. Be sure to match proportions in such a way that the wire will be covered once it comes time to cover it with clay to make the bones.

Watching Video - Take notes of this video if it helps you

Watch this video to see the way the artist approaches making their skull. There are some very good tips! fast forward as there is a lot of dead space therein.

Class01_Homework_August 20th

Dear Students-

Below you will find the homework for your chosen path of study. If you are Figurative Sculpture, you are obligated to follow the Figurative Sculpture homework. If you are Content Portfolio, you are obligated to meet the deadlines of the Content Portfolio Homework. Those of you who are pursuing both the Figure and Content paths are invited to do the Figure Sculpture exercises as long as you end up with seven Content Portfolio pieces that have shared, meaningful content by the end of the semester. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Next class, I will give the Content Portfolio students their dates

Best,

Professor Urrutia

Figurative Sculpture Homework

Today we got the small sculpting stands down, assembled and you should have identified yours with your name on a piece of tape. Later we will get the sculpting stands down for you to work on and these small sculpture stands will be used on top of the rolling stands. Thank you for helping to get things off the shelves today!

Homework

Please bend your metal to conform to the lines of the printed skeleton. I realize that the lines in the hips look different. Be sure that they more or less match or you will have strange looking hips!

Content Portfolio - Chris, Kat

Today we went over the syllabus and I emailed your proposals. If, for some reason, you did not receive the email of the proposal today, please text me about it asap so that I can get it to you. As far as I know, some students are still having trouble with their email accounts. If you are one of them, I need to know so that I can get the proposal to you in another way asap.

Homework

Proposals - These are due to me on Monday, August 25th by 5pm

Answer the questions to the proposal that I emailed to you in detail. Please copy and paste the questions in the email into a word doc., leave the original question and add your answer underneath said question, and name your document and email according to the parameters in the syllabus your received today.

See you soon!!

Professor Urrutia

Welcome!

Hello Students!
You have found the blog for Figurative Sculpture and Content Portfolio!

Figurative Sculpture: you are in for an exciting semester as we study and learn to sculpt the figure. This is where you will find your homework assignments. I will do my best to post them by Wednesday night 10:00pm so that you have plenty of time to work on your exercises and projects. With that said, if you notice a post missing, please let me know as soon as you are able as sometimes it is a problem with google and NOT me:)

Content Portfolio: I think you all know how excited I am to work with my Content Portfolio people! Some of you are returning to refine and develop work you've made in the past, while others of you are pursuing your own body of work for the first time. Whatever the case, I look forward to helping you make the best art you are capable of and a portfolio you can be proud of.

This is going to be a great semester! I sure hope you're ready. It has begun.
Best,
Professor Urrutia