Thursday at the DMA Center for Creative Connections: Paper Sculpture

This week in the Center for Creative Connections we created sculptures from strips of extra thick poster board.
I built this horse head complete with ears of dual focus and star strip snip (face markings).

This is an archive from July 28 which I forgot to post:

Tonight we had a great project in C3 with visiting artist Margaret Meehan, creating soft sculptures with cheap teddy bears. I created this one which I called horse heaven based on a little horse angel l found in the stuffing of the soft toy.

DIY at DMA: Puzzle Piece Assemblage

Our instructer was Rene Muhl, an artist from University of North Texas who usees materials such as Bronze, Puzzle pieces and fiber in her installations. She led the class in using puzzle pieces in sculpture. She discussed creating sculpture that connect people of diverse backgrounds through common interests. After attempting to weave puzzle pieces together using wire, I created this relief sculpture using a pieces from a variety of puzzles and a hot glue gun.

Grandfathers Box II

Last month I attended a DIY@DMA program where we worked with cigar boxes, creating assemblage sculptures. After I returned I recreated my box, painting the inside black and photographing the assemblage. I have returned to this box, this time with the inside painted white, and the assemblage created from a brass safety razor and blade box, along with a two belt buckles which belonged to my grandfather. In the spirit of Joseph Cornell and his assemblage boxes, This is a Homage to my grandfather who passed away in 1985