I'm always bad at taking in-progress photos of my work for my sculpture work. This is mainly because I'm usually so focused on getting the project completed that taking a quick progress picture doesn't even come to mind when I take a break. The image on top is when I was using a rust dissolver on my metal to help take care of my rust cleanup faster. It actually did not help me out that much (and also lead to an impromptu vet visit for my dog a couple days later due to that my dog grazes as much as a goat). The bottom image is when I had finally finished a majority of my welding and started up on cleanup.
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I struggled a lot coming up with designs for this project. With the project being nature-inspired, I immediately hit a rut with how I was going to approach the project. Initially I thought about utilizing geodes and mineral formations for the project, but I wasn't overly thrilled with the idea. Then I saw someone's desktop picture of on of the preloaded images available to chose from of some lightning and I was off scribbling up ideas on how to make energy have mass.
Thanks to a class cancellation, I was able to go to the wood shop Monday and glue my toolbox together. For now I just have a lot of sanding to go before I'm ready to stain my box, but that will have to wait until Wednesday since my dog had a vet appointment that couldn't be rescheduled.
On a bonus note, here's a little bit of my adventures and struggle in clamping wood together: In my Sculpture I class, our second project is to make a functional toolbox that is also a nonliteral self portrait of sorts. My initial note taking and design ideas (right) are always pretty scattered and set up in a way to where I can mix and mash ideas as I go rather than settling on one thing for each toolbox sketch. My final design and notes (left) are where I finally figured out what ideas work with what. There are some things, the resin inlay and finishes, that I'm still working the kinks out on. Overall, I'm pretty confident in the direction the design is going. AND here's the honorary pile of wood that I promise has much more to it than what's shown.
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