Christmas and surrounding times

Long time since my last update. Time for a huge recap.

First is some art.

This first piece was a casting project. I cast the cage of our bird who pasted away last year. It was pretty neat. It sort of transformed the cage into a home/memorial.




The next art thing was bronze casting. This was really really fun. I was daring enough to volunteer to be one of the people holding the crucible during the pouring process. I proved to be good at it, however it was exceedingly hard on my arms since it weight probably 70 pounds when it was all filled with bronze.

This is a picture of burning the wax out of the silica sand molds.

Me wearing protective gear.



These were pictures of the crucible filled with bronze coming out of the forge. I am not one of those people.

Here is me getting ready to pick the thing up.
Depth perception is very important, as well as team work to having a successful form. It was peculiar when I was doing it, because I had complete control of the pouring process, but I didn't actually feel like I was the one who was figuring out or actually controlling the pour. Though it did go really well. More pictures of the bronze will follow.

This was some sketching I did for anatomy of eyes, source from Ratatouille.


This was my final drawing project. It is massive. And really conceptual. It is a self-portrait of ACAD. I won't even try to explain.

This was my bronze after an initial cleanup work.

Here he is on his plinth after he was all finished. I also made the plinth

My teacher taking a picture of it.






This sculpture project was really weird. It ended up being me walking from my house to the c-train station I use everyday with a cinder block. And taking pictures along the way. It was sort of a spur of the moment/deadline fueled work that actually ended up being well received by the class.

I got a new camera this month, it does some fancy HDR imaging, here is something it produced. My friends Tiff and Sho.



When our animation class ended, we all went to a pub for lunch which was lots of fun. Hopefully you can tell who our teacher was.













I don't really know who these kids are, they were just at one of the christmas events I was at, and they seemed to make really good pictures.



The above are just some pictures of family that I think are interesting from our christmas get togethers.




And finally pictures from a party at Kim's house. oh the fun.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everybody

Kyler

Anatomy Lab

This week in anatomy class we had the opportunity to go to the anatomy lab at the University of Calgary. I won't discuss it too in depth because they prefer if we didn't, simple to not stir up much controversy and so they don't get phone calls.

We were able to see 5 full bodies and various limbs.

At first everybody was very, very nervous, including myself. But after we had finished a brief tour/explanation from the lab technician, I decided to put on a lab coat and rubber gloves and start really closely looking at everything and actually handling stuff. It was interesting that once I actually put the lab coat and gloves on I actually felt much more comfortable. About half the class stayed in the lab and really looked at the stuff and asked lots of questions, but the other half did find they needed to leave, it was very overwhelming.

Now I seem to have a much better appreciation of what we are actually made of and how everything is tucked inside our bodies. I'd say that if you ever have a chance to do something like that, take it, especially if you think you have the stomach for it, because you will have a much greater appreciation for your body after.

Kyler

Drawing Comics

I had to do a narrative project for my drawing class. I decided to use the format of one weeks worth of newspaper comics. So 6 daily comics and one sunday sized. I decided to make about something I know about and have thought of some funny jokes about, art school.

And then I decided to make them giant, so they communicate better.

And then I saw a bunch of space that was never used in the stairwells. So I put one on every floor of the school all the way up the stairs.

They were very well received from everybody I've talked to . It was great to hear people laughing up and down the stair well when they first saw them.

My pictures aren't great, so they might be hard to read and much less funny over the interweb.

This is a wax sculpture that is going to be cast in bronze,it is going to be pretty cool.




Kyler