Summer Work_ Air-dry Clay Sculpture, Head

So this is my summer art work, 3D; idea and concept are based on Alberto Giacometti's overall style and his Bronze metal work "Head" that I found at Chicago's Art Institute while I was there this summer.

However, I did not really look at Giacometti's work while I was working on my sculpture, so it is kind of hard to tell that my inspiration is from his work. For the material, I used air-dry clay (paper clay) instead of bronze. I do so one because it's much cheaper and that I do

not want to burn down my aunt and uncle's house by setting up a torch station since I will have a foundry class later anyways.

The paint I used to (attempt to...) give the metal look is Golden Acrylic Paint, made from

plastic basically. I think overall the texture of this sculpture can be improved a lot by using

material other than air-dry clay. This is really because it took a lot of patience to smooth out the surface of the sculpture due to the chunkiness of the clay. Next time it'd better if I use other materials, probably like plaster or clay used for ceramic.

I do not know the actual process(or more common process) of making a head sculpture, so I ended up using a wooden

stick as support for the neck and a styrofoam ball for the head.

Head, Grant Lin (side)

Head, Grant Lin (back)

Head, Alberto Giacometti, Bronze(front)

Head, Alberto Giacometti, Bronze(back)

Alberto Giacometti on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti
Two Other Artists: David Casella, Ju Ming