This is Wilfrid!

Blue Clay Head

 Hi started this one, one year ago, and it finally came out of the kiln this week! It is made from red clay and has been fired to cone 02.

Thanks for watching!

Sylvain

Sculptures

Hi Today I' showing sculptures made out of porcelain paper clay, they've been fired to cone 06, i'm not sure well, i don't know how i'm going to finished them. I don't think i'll put some color, may be leave them white, or put a white mate finish.... they are approx 15 inches tall.

Jérome

Daphnée

Byebye

Sylvain

Concrete

Hi Folks, Here a few WIP of a new installation called ''FACE A FACE''.

As you can see, it is always a good idea to begin with a good armature!!! For my part it was quite good except for the arms, i could have done them a little bit stronger.

Oh and be careful to wear gloves, concrete can burn yourself....

The armature is a mix of wood, styro, wires, screws.

I put a layer of chicken wire to hold the concrete in place.

I covered the entire pieces with regular construction concrete, for about an inch thick.

Don't Look at my face on this one! It seems i have 3 chins...

The installation is complete.

When the sun goes down.

Lovers (who said they where lovers???) can meet in the light between them.

The Women weight is around 75 pounds while the men is around 100.

I did these pieces in the beginning of the summer. Since then, i did a lot of work in clay, they are fired but not ready to show. But Very soon...

First Exhibition

Hi Everyone, Last week end there was an art fair in my little town of Cowansville, and I showed my worked for the first time to "the world"... It was the perfect day, sunny and hot, (hey i'm in canada and sometimes this time of year it's rainy and cold you don't want to put your nose outside) but no everybody was happy and walking in the streeet to see what was happening here.

So here are my work from my first exhibition!

The First Four from the man-bird serie are made with a home made paper clay over a wire armature. Wings are made with twigs, wood dowels, fabric, thread and feathers of course.



Icarus (from a painting of Daniel Barkley)

















Icarus (detail)






La Chute d'Icare(D'après Dupras)



Le Rêve d'Icare




Le Rêve d'Icare (detail)

















Le Vide




Le Vide (detail)




















"Femme Marchand sous la Pluie" is made of wire and threads covered with Paverpol.


Femme Marchand sous la Pluie




Femme Marchand sous la Pluie (detail)
























"Etude de Mouvement 1! is made of white plaster.





Etude de Mouvement

And the last one is very hard to take a photo of, because of the glass, and because it's a relief! Anyway this is what it look like!


Autoportrait d'Egon Shiele



I was kind of proud of this one, and guess what this is THE one I sold!!!! My First sale!!!

So that's it for tonight, good luck with your own project, and stay tuned for the next post will be clothing!!!

Boutriack for a man with scissors

My last semester Pieces

Hi There! Last Fall I began a sculpture class at Bishop's Universty. We worked with clay, then we make a plaster mold, remove the clay from the mold, and then poured in TuffStone. So the final result is in TuffStone!

The mask was our introducing into the big world of sculpting, it was to learn the ''low relief''.

Then I did a finish on it with brass powder and graphite. I colored the Tuffstone a brownish color before mixing it.

Then we moved to the 3d project. We had to do a piece easily molded and unmolded... with a wider base.

I made a head like if it was burried or under water, i chose the last option, that is why the blue color, after i finiished the head, i had this idea of making a photoshop of me, like if i was in water. This is the result!!!

For the winter semester, we needed to choose a picture, painting or drawing i choose a painting from Egon Schiele, from wich we'll do our projects.

So the first project is to make a low relief, from that painting, this is where I'm right now. Still working on it.

See you!!!

Fabric Sculpture Time

This all started last winter, i was surfing the net to find a way to turn fabric into hard 3d shape. I found a craft supply called Paverpol, wich is a fabric stiffener, enviro safe. I tried to order some online, but they cannot ship this product in winter time, not below zero....

Anyway i received an email, last friday from a teacher who gives Paverpol workshop, and it was the next Sunday. So where do you think i was this Sunday, yeah in Pointe Claire in an art gallery basement(thank god it was so hot outside).

And this is it my first Paverpol Lady

And here are a few step to achieve this wonderful artpiece.....(hum)

Electrical wire.

Covered with aluminum foil and masking tape.

And then Mommyfied with strips of fabric dipped in Paverpol.

After that picture i was too gluey to use camera.....

See you!!