Clouds sculpture

One of the key features I'm set on is creating a form out of billowing dust clouds (possibly with robes or feathers mixed in). So i decided to investigate creating dust for sculpture in 3D programs. Firstly all the conventional methods of creating dust with particle effects will be useless since they are not solid forms but free floatings polygons. Instead I looked at sculpture form inspirations: Looking at sculptural representation a common technique seems to be filling out the mass of the…

Clay cloud

Rob Good, member 22266, is a sculptor and in 2017 won the Brian Mercer Residency, spending three months in Pietrasanta, Italy, working on marble sculpture.

2014 Medium: Freshwater pearls, monofilament thread, aluminum Dimension: 96” x 45” x 45” Cloud Cell is a hanging work made of over 13,000 freshwater pearls suspended in space by hundreds of clear filaments. Like a three dimensional pointillist painting, an image is formed by luminescent dots in space. This curvilinear form is inspired by Chinese […]

A cloud carved in alabaster uses the stunning translucency of the stone to explore the symbolism of clouds

-By Tim Bruckner I’m working on a statue that has several stylized smoke elements. Although I’ve posted before about working with clear resins, designing and developing the smoke sections for this statue presented some different issues I thought might be interesting and helpful. It starts with