I’ve included a picture of my finished product. It’s been a while since this event. It’s May now! How time flies. Anyways, since then my clay sculptures have dried. If you can’t tell, on the right is a strawberry and the left is a raspberry. Yum. Why did I sculpt fruit? Myself and the other attendees were encouraged to base our work on ancient Peruvian ceramics. We were shown various water containers, each especially made according to the main job of the sculptor. For example, a fisherman’s container would look like a fish. Most pieces were shaped like a fruit grown in the Peru at that time.
I was nervous at first but the museum staff showed us the proper techniques to make a stable and pretty structure. You can’t tell from the picture but my strawberry is actually a container. Isn’t that fun! Shout out to GRF Magdala for organizing such a fun and enriching event. Maybe I’ll go again sometime and take my friends. (:
I love the picture! I am curious to know what your favorite sculpture you saw from Peru was, but based on your choice I think the fruit ones really inspired you!
This sounded like a very fun and interesting event to attend! I wish I had gone to it! It’s interesting that most pieces were shaped like fruit. It is interesting to learn about something and also be able to try to recreate your own. Sculpting with clay also sounds like a fun way to relax and unwind from the week. I would definitely like to try sculpting in the future!
Wow this seems like a fun event! I unfortunately couldn’t go due to a prior commitment, but I did take a ceramics class in high school. It was one of my favorite classes, and I really enjoyed making pots and working with clay.
It turned out great! My has dried as well, loved this event.
That seems like it was really fun! Your fruit look really good! I never knew that ancient Peruvian ceramic pieces often looked like fruit. It seems like a fairly random thing to model containers after, but then again, fruit does look really nice.
This seemed like a great Rose House event. I have always found clay sculptures very interesting and have wanted to try making them, but I am horrible with my hands. I hope that I can explore my interest in art through Rose Scholars and potentially do some in my free time.
Thanks for having the photo attached. It looks really nice! Really want to try it!
I really liked how your sculptures turned out! When I think of sculpting, I don’t know why, but I always think of making ceramics. I’m glad to see there’s so much to do with it. I’ve always been interested in it, so I think I may take a beginner’s sculpting course at Cornell!