Since my last post, I’ve been busy creating prototypes to determine what images I will use as murals for the two galleries. I’ve decided to concentrate on a water theme since Richland College, which is located on a lake, has been concerned about sustaining nature, and conservation of natural resources.
The murals for the galleries are to be 3-D reliefs.
The most current idea is a wave theme for one of the galleries from the following drawing:
I then created this 1/3 scale model for the prototype:
I’m now working on a full-scale model (3′ x 9′). Here are a couple of photos of the model in my studio as I am beginning to make it.
The other gallery’s theme centers around the changing interaction of humans with nature. I wanted to show the transition of mankind’s relationship with water from the past to the present. In the past, humans lived around a water source, today, they can live almost anywhere, as the water is conveniently transported to them.
As I chose to make this mural a triptych I created the following images. The left panel comes from this watercolor:
Which I interpreted in the following carving:
The middle from this digital print I created:
Which translate to the following carving:
Finally, I chose to do this vector print for the right panel:
Which interprets as:
The total mural prototype looks like this:
After completing this prototype, I became curious about the depth that could be utilized. I then carved a scale model of the center panel using twice the thickness of material. The effect is shown in this next photos.
with a detail of the hands:
And now, I’ve got to get back to carving on the full-sized wave prototype, which will be THREE TIMES THE THICKNESS!!!!! Until next time……
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