Joshua Trembly Wood Project

 I've been playing with a few ideas for the upcoming wood assignment. Since the possibility of learning additional woodworking techniques is on the table, I have a couple concepts to work with. 

The first is to work with a "life sized bust" out of wood and use what techniques I know to start to reveal the "inner workings" of the figure--first the inner anatomical features, then more imaginative or "artistic" layers (like "art" coming out of his head). 

I like this idea, make the inner materials -not wood.  Then you are simply creating the head out of wood by laminating and carving. See picture to understand the cardboard templates I was speaking of last week.

This would be how you would laminate hollow so you have a space to fill. Remember that the thickness of the cardboard is less than that of the wood.  Usually we use 3/8 to laminate like this.

I've never worked with a full sized bust before, even with plaster, so this project would offer a unique challenge. My plan going in is to make a smooth bust "shell" and a skeleton, then to use the space between the bones and hollow frame to add muscle and other fun stuff. 

I would shoot for 3/4 scale because of time.  No skeleton on this one josh. The time is not there.

The way I'm envisioning the piece is as having a smooth, nondescript face on one side that's maybe even painted white or light grey. As the viewer's eye moves along the piece, they see the skin turn to muscle, sinew, then bones and veins. Why show this part?  Why not have the head be all smooth and still the opening is there with the insides coming out. Ask yourself why the bone and muscle are important to show.

An opening in the head will have all sorts of fun imaginative stuff coming out like cog-mandalas and disintegrating cubes. 

It might even look good to have the head falling apart or disintegrating in places. The disintegration tells a different story. A breaking down vs a celebration.

    Escobar Marisol is one artist from the source book who makes smooth wood figures. 

https://www.pinterest.com/bestlinkwood/wood-sculpture/

https://www.google.com/search?q=helmeck+sculpture-wood+head&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiGtuC2v7DvAhUKAzQIHZNpAFQQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=helmeck+sculpture-wood+head&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DXEliEJGDuJmgAcAB4AIABcYgB2gaSAQM4LjKYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=82BOYMbwEIqG0PEPk9OBoAU&bih=896&biw=1658&safe=strict#imgrc=gqgwjw6DBx-6uM

I've worked with the idea - what idea? for some time but I feel that using quality materials and spending more quality time with it could really be good for the concept's development. 

How does this differ from an anatomical model?

This is amazing.

This sculpture I worked on over the summer for PR is a good example of what I'm going for w/ wood. In place of a brain would be hollow space lined w/ pattern etc.

And also this section of painting shows one possibility of what to "fill the head with" (I can't not share this stuff when it ties in so closely to what I want to make XD) but obvsly it's going to be 3D. 

If I don't use a solid piece of wood, Jackie Ferrara's (from the source book) "stacking" method might be a good way to develop a bust. 

I'm treating this idea as my primary one and the next are alternates. 

I've been making little imps :) and it would be fun to make figurines out of them and put them around a fire or something. Again, I have done so little art with wood that making these is only a possibility if I'm engaged in learning new woodworking techniques, or if I get really comfy with a lathe, or something. Finally, if all else fails I can always make a wood mask.

What would use the lathe on? These sketches do not lend themselves to the symmetry a lathe would produce. Think table leg, bowl, rounded.