Intro to Sculpture

Projects made during my Intro to Sculpture class at MHCC - 2022

Shape Study

Sculpting:

Firing:

Filling the casts

Filling the casts

Cooling

Preparing for unmolding

Cleaning off the plaster

Cleaning off the plaster

Removing flash

Removing flash

Final:

Hand Study

Sculpting:

Firing:

After firing

Final:

Glass Hand - Molding Process

These were quite an extensive process - casting our hands in agar, filling the mold with wax, removing the agar and cleaning up the wax, casting that in plaster, and using that to melt glass into an exact replica.

Firing:

Hand plasters in the kiln

Carefully unmolding

Final:

Look at that detail!