Starting Blogging

Hello World,
This is my first ever blog about my journey in art.

My name is Sheila Chapman and I am two years in to a part-time art degree course at Edinburgh College of Art. I usually do a lot of drawing and 2D mixed media work, but this term I am starting a sculpture class for the first time ever. I think it will be fun to document my progress in this new (slightly scary!) 3D world.

Last term I was working on several pieces based on drawings of chestnuts and I made some small spherical objects using thin wire and tissue paper/PVA mix. My plan with the sculpture class is to explore further ways of making spheres, and different ways of displaying them.

In next weeks' class we will be working with plaster, so today I am thinking about ways to try and mould sphere-like bodies out of wet plaster.

If anyone out there has any helpful tips or advice I would love to hear from you!