Hello there
Today I am presenting my final project from a sculpture class I took this past semester. We could do whatever we wanted so I used my favorite character as my muse for this sculpture.
This is actually made of red clay. I originally had a strange feeling at the onset of painting clay and I still have mixed feelings about exactly what is going on here, but still I am amused by the way this all turned out.
While I was making the crystalline mass that is Kryptonite Rita's scalp, my professor suggested I make a pedestal for her. So I then went to the pottery wheel and made a cylinder form quickly, and carried the crystal motif onto it.
Some of the inspirations for this piece were also the bust of Queen Nefertiti from New Kingdom Egypt and the Walt Disney animator's 3-D study for Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. Anyone who is interested in animation should watch the special features on the dvd, I'm telling you, it's incredible. The whole project eventually took on a life of its own of course, so now it mostly looks like a collector's bust of some kind that a sci fi geek would work all summer to buy. I wish.
But, once again, this piece isn't exactly perfect, as someone so tactfully as possible said during the final critique. But for me, this piece isn't about perfection. I think seeing a portrait bust of this character breathes new life into it regardless if it is extremely fine tuned. People in my class didn't seem to get the idea that she was a Super Villain and was supposed to have bold colors. It makes me think of her with natural colored flesh and it bugs me out ha ha ha. But, what do I know, I only created it.
