The beginnings of my soft sculpture...

Here is the outline of an antelope I am making along with its armature.  I will be stuffing the body stiff with cotton batting I bought.  I made the armature in order to keep the legs straight, up and down, instead of wanting to splay out to the sides.  After I have put together and stuffed the antelope, I will then be painting it, inspire by the patterns painted on Oaxacan wood carvings.  Also, there is going to be a hidden compartment to put things in, in the back spine.

Today, I re-did the table legs to create more space under the table

Senior Thesis, Dining room set

The Great Southwest.

 

Process and Progress.

Here are photographs of the making of my fiberglass munstuer.

Here I am cutting out and carving the body using pink foam board.

 

In this image, I am taping up the body with packing tape so that after the fiberglass has dried, I can then easily extract the body from the inside.

 

Through one of the legs, I strung through some electrical cord for a small light fixture that will later go into the belly of the munstuer.

The process of cutting out pieces of fiber glass fabric and pinning them to the body, then painting on the resin.

 

In this step, I poured acetone into the cavity of the body and the acetone melted the foam.  Then I was able to grab onto the "guts" and pull them out.  

 

And finally, the empty body

 

Here I am clamping the legs in place, where I want them and lining them up with the body.  Then I just laid fiberglass over the seems to connect the legs  to the body.  

 

Testing, testing!  Yes, it works!

Legs Side Table, Stained Glass Top

Here is a side table in which I cut out the legs with a large CNC router.  Then I also put together this stained glass top.  The legs were made of laminated sheets of chipboard.

Funnee

 

Here is a small novelty toy I made on a 3D computer software, which I then transferred to a rapid prototyper.  This 3D printer then prints my object out of hardened gypsum powder.  Finally, I painted on images and illustrations.