Sculpture - Blog Posts
Some little dragons I made in the middle of art class out of moldable eraser. They're about as long as my tumb (my hands are small). That stuff is suprisingly hard to work with because it always snaps back in place, making it hard to smooth out or make points.
My little star dragons! Mum is about the size of a silver dollar and daughter is almost as big as a quarter. They're both hand made tiny dragons and I loved making them! I might make a third as a dad dragon.
Do I add hashtags? I'm just gonna add some to be carefull.
🫀•My Sacred Heart (2024) and GIRLBRAIN (2024)•🧠
•Materials: Costume satin, cotton fabric, polyfill, various threads, watercolor paints
🫀•I allow my work to take over my room and sometimes it doesn’t give me space to breathe.•📿
•“Who Are You…Without Me?” (2025)•🎀
✨•Materials: recycled plastic compact, sandpaper, two-part epoxy clay, spray paint, acrylic paint
“Throw My Troubles in a Box, Stitch it Up and Latch it Shut” (2024)
☕️•Materials for the box: paper mache, acrylic paint, gloss medium, hardware, gold embroidery thread, costume satin, watercolor paint, and gauze•💗
Creature I made!!!!!
I’m so EXCITED to see him GLAZED- His face makes me laugh djdj
The kiln where I fire my stuff is currently BROKEN </3 so it will b a while until I see him finished in all his glory. BUT HE’S WORTH THE WAIT!
I left the skull as raw clay and made BEADS OF SWEAT with clear glaze- so I hope they sag & drip down a bit when they fire!!
"DEATH IS THE MOTHER OF BEAUTY"
- literary examples of death as tragic and beautiful in its terror
Ophelia, a beautiful, innocent girl created by Shakespeare, torn by emotions so much that in despair for her lost love, she throws herself into the arms of the river, drowning. This is clearly seen in Millais's painting. Despite her death, a young girl resists the influence of filthy water on the human body. Pale but healthy skin, rosy cheeks and pink lips desperately taking their last breath. A tragic moment captured in such a calm way. Ophelia remains forever beautiful and immortal in the eyes of the viewer.
"Perfume" by Patrick Süskind, a novel about a murderer who tries to capture the most beautiful smell. The smell of death in the form of perfume made from a young body. His victims are again little girls who die in a tragic, sometimes even parodic way, being brutally mercilessly harmed. But in the main character's eyes they still shine like stars in the sky, filling him with pure exhilaration. Especially that one woman who is his eternal inspiration.
Baudelaire creates something similar in the poem "the death of lovers". The couple on its deathbed is not concerned about the coming end. Their love seems to bloom even more, surrounded by fragrant flowers that fill their souls with peace and joy.
Finally, the story of Tristan and Isolde, another lovers, on whose grave a hawthorn grows. A symbol of their eternal love. From their dead bodies, corrupted by decay, something amazing in its beauty is created bearing witness to their everlasting connection.
It reminds me of the words of Edvard Munch: "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity"
Writers, poets, whole literature itself create death in various ways. But showing it as a gateway to beauty is something particularly special. How death can it be glamorous, artistic and pleasing for our eyes. How to find it among tragedy, mourning, rotten skin and that disgusting smell of decay. And why show it this way at all?
"Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell" - Hermann Hesse
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we are mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.”
- Homer, The Iliad
my idea for the clay whistles we're gonna make in sculpture! Alebrije! They were first created by Pedro Linare, so if you don't know anything abt these guys you should look them up n stuff! theyre cool as fuck to learn about
omfg first class of uni today, im so so scared but it's intro to sculpture so im a littleeeeee relaxed
but then i have academic writing in the evening
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
anyways wish me luck
Louka Anargyros, 'Locker Room: Sissy', acrylic on ceramic, 2023
Camille Claudel, Clotho, 1893, plaster, 90 x 49,3 x 43 cm, Musée Rodin, Paris.
Sculptors Camille Claudel and Jessie Lipscomb (on the right) in their Paris studio in the mid-1880s © Wikipedia Commons
“Untitled (Forest)” by Mariele Neudecker
paris, france 🤍
“I read it, and I wished I had not, because my view of the world was so much darker afterward,”
My art-aunt duties have been completed. A fine collaboration between myself and my nephew which included wrapping himself in masking tape. Can't wait to see what grade we got ;) #paintedlady #artaunt #craftproject #crafty #artsy #artistlife #papermache #paperart #painter #kidart #art #sculpture #bosart #create #somerville
Hi everyone...this is Muskan Vashistha. I was waiting for a long time to share my work on a huge platform like this. So I am posting some of my old stuff that I made. I hope you like it.😊❤
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth" - Pablo Picasso
