Work Experience

My first day of work experience was just an orientation , so I didn’t do much. I learned about the process of making a sculpture, which is sketch, mock up, work in process, than the final product. I then searched some images of turtles and Arowana fish for a sculpture that Pintor is currently working on. I ended the day on sketching some pictures of the Arowana fish.

On the second day I took at look at Pintor website, went through it to understand why it is important for an artist to have a website. I then worked on colour and lighting. When you look at something, it always has different colours and shading depending on which way the light is reflecting onto it. Pintor gave me a print, which I tried to copy to get the same colours around the face, because it’s the colour that shapes the face. It was also to work on making my sketches 3D and more realistic.           

On the third day, I finished up the picture that I started on the previous day. It’s looking a lot better, I’m getting the lighting and shading closer to the image that I copied it from. I used photo shop to help me, I could play around with colours to get the right one colour or a similar colour. It’s a lot harder then it looks, to be able to get the right colours and to blend it in. The principle of shading; if the colour is light it comes out, and darker colours sink in. Then towards the end of the day I started to use photo shop to help make a scale of the sculpture to get the right numbers for the mock up.

On the fourth day I used photo shop again to get an easier scale so that I could start on the clay mock up. After that I did clay for the rest of the day and built the mock up.  

On my last day I just finished up doing the mock up sculpture, then when we almost finished, the buyer texted to say that he wanted to change one of the , so we had to re-do one of the pictures, and the move all the other clay so that the shapes could work together and make the sculpture look interesting.

Overall it was a great experience, although it got boring at times it’ll be an experience I will never forget.

If you guys would like to check out his website and take a look his work, heres a link.
http://www.pintorsirait.com/

Holidays

My holidays were quite exciting, I had a friend from Australia come up with her family to visit me. I spent most days with her and her family, taking them around Bali. On one day we had our sunscreen packed, eski in the boot, everyone was ready for a wonderful day in the sun. We all headed to Uluwatu to visit the monkey temple. We walked along the edge of the cliff to see the beautiful views onto the ocean. We then went and enjoyed a nice lunch at the top of the cliff over the ocean before we made our way to Padang-Padang. It was such a perfect day for the beach, but before we could sneak off our parents made sure Jess and I had enough sunscreen on so that we wouldn’t get burnt. We headed along the beach, to the rocks and out of sight. The beach was so beautiful we could walk along it for the whole day, but after being absent for a couple of hours we decided to turn around and go back to the family. When we got back everyone was out in the water so we decided to join them and go out and cool down for a while. By the end of the day we would still get sun burnt despite putting on layers of sunscreen.