another great articles about animals

Just read another article from marieclaire. the way how it write is clear and illustrate how the situation is. e.g….imagine you got an diamond on your face and walking on a street in London…that’s what a rhino in the forest….the article also point out the cost of black markets….although my MA project finally not relating to it, but through the research, I know black market is also a serious problem to be aware.

http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/blogs/550036/endangered-species-animals-at-risk-of-extinction.html

Tiger Mould update/ Elephant Clay Modeling

Last layer for the tiger mould:

the shape of top left corner is mainly for the standing while casting, due to the direction that mixture going in is from bottom right, so….and yea, save some plaster as well, haha

When the mould of Tiger, Rhino and Orangutan were already finished…meanwhile, the biggest one is being modeled at home, this one I use some blending tube instead of the hard and straight tube I used before…..

quite like this radical form with the tube…but no idea of how to cast and moulding

keep it wet keep it fresh

bought the tube for modeling, have to insert wire (3 lines together) in order to control the tube in shape.

yea, like a spring ….looks funny….hm….good in standing, but seems not perfect yet

support for standing

  

to be continued tonight and hope to finish the mould this week

Rhino Sculpture update/ lipstick collection update

Here’s the clay model for the rhino, I will make a 3-piece-plaster mould, I am quite satisfy with the result, when comparing to the sketch and design, it’s almost the same. At the same time, I added some gain/ stroke?! to the sculpture, that’s inspired by the cracking dry skin from rhino itself. I twist a bit and make it like the tiger style…..so that’s my style!

last time stopped here, almost the shape came out, just need to modify the surface and add the other leg

starting the surface fine tune, add the other leg the the same time.

here I adding the grain from the tube in the back

 

for eyes, nose…I keep using the same style to present them

here we could see the grain clearly, however this version is a bit too much and distracting the whole art piece…it dominated.

so I simplified it a bit~

final work, tomorrow will bring back to college for mould making

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For lipstick collection, there are some responses from HK friends and UK friends, but I found there would be a lot more needed, and therefore I google ” UK makeup artist / expert” I emailed and Facebook messaged many (10 pages search of google). Hope there are more donated by them.

And, Some already being posted to me….hope my project really bring the message to my friends.

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and thinking of elephant….the 4 sketches before….not yet perfect….so keep sketching:

Collecting used or unwanted lipstick for sculpture/ 收集二手或不用的唇膏製作雕塑之用

As I am posting request for second hand, unwanted lipstick, for upcycling sculpture project. Here I try to illustrate my concept. The main purpose is to raise awareness of endangered animals. There is a deforestation problem due to the large amount use of palm oil, for manufacturing daily product such as lipstick, shampoo, chocolate, etc. Thus, the animals are lack of living habitat and prey for food.

由於我在多個社交群組徵求已用或不用的唇膏，作為升級再造雕塑之用。在此我描述一下概念。主要是借我的雕塑增加大家對瀕臨絕種動物的關注；由於大量使用棕櫚油生產日常用品如唇膏，洗頭水及朱古力等，以致森林過份被開伐. 因此動物漸漸失去生態居住及獵物。

Endangered Animals suffering from the problem/ : Sumatran Tiger/ Sumatran Elephant/ Sumatran Rhino/ Sumatran Orangutan

受影響的瀕臨絕種動物包括:蘇門答臘虎/大象／犀牛／猩猩

I try to cast my sculpture by mixing my own lip balm/ lipstick without palm oil. On the other hand, I am thinking to cast with second hand, or unwanted lipstick; the project itself involves upcycling and, at the same time through the collecting process, to let my friends know such problem. Thus, no matter the lipstick they donated are made with or without palm oil, they started to know it more, and I am working on a upcycling project as well.

我嘗試以其他物料製作不包含棕櫚油的唇膏雕塑。另一方面在構思以已用或不用的唇膏製作雕塑；製作概念在升級再造的同時，收集過程中讓我的朋友們開始認識這個課題。所以不論他們將捐出的唇膏有否棕櫚油，他們在這也認知更多，而我亦將廢物升級再造。

Link for more info/ 更多資訊:

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/what-you-can-do/others-ways-to-support-us/be-an-ethical-shopper/

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/palm_oil/

Planning for the final 4 pieces

In order to make them like a whole series, I would like to follow a right scale, I mean 4 animals comparing each other. 

That’s an issue to concern, too small, the orangutan is difficult to make, too big, the elephant would be huge…still thinking how big should they be.

and some elephant outlook details for my ref

Sculpture Form

Because the palm oil problem affecting 4 endangered animals….so for the final project I want to make all 4 sculptures. instead of only one 1:1 tiger head. First of all, there are 4 animals suffering from the problem, I’d better show all of them in order to let the audience know more. And…instead of sculpting the head only, I want to show the dynamic, energy of the animals. Since a head is always linked to hunted for trophy. I do want to let people see the animals shape and gestures. Last but not least, as the sculpture is related to lipstick and lip balm, I try to use the 15mm diameter tube as part of the form….it also help to give a sense of motion to the sculpture. here are the different drawing I brainstormed.

to decide which one I will do, I’d better consider the making of mould too. Since there’s difficulty for too many parts, and also lost of sculpture details, leaking of mixture….etc.

I picked 1 from each (yellow circle), and will consider some element from others (blue circle)

TIger – the jumping action with tube enhancing motion; and see if I could twist a bit to perform the gesture, the simple but nice backbone shape

orangutan – the rushing motion (mainly consider the standing of sculpture…..) -_- actually I like the sitting post on tree…..hm…let me see

Rhino – the simple stepping motion with power; yea…add the direction element?!

elephant – the looking upward motion, with some changes to the trunk (curve maybe)