For my final project, I chose to create a wire sculpture of a wolf howling on a wooden platform. I chose to do this becasue when I was searching for project ideas, I came across a wire sculpture that was an elephant from one side and two giraffes from another side. I thought this was really neat and I wanted to make a sort of 2-in-1 piece like that. Unfortunately that didn't work out too well, so I decided to just make a 1-in-1 wire sculpture. I saw one online that I thought was a wolf that looked really cool. It turned out to be a lizard or something when I took a closer look, but that's what gave me the idea to make a wolf.
As I said, when I first started, I was trying to make a 2-in-1 piece. It was supposed to be an umbrella one way and the word "rain" another way, but I got really frustrated with that really quick because the wire wasn't going the way I needed it to, so I quickly abandoned that idea and went towards the single sculpture. I used pliers and thick wire to create the outline of a wolf. then I made a second outline minus the head. I placed the two outlines a little ways apart from eachother on a rad piece of wood that I had been saving and Ms. Sudkamp helped me staple the wires to the wood block. Then I tried wrapping the outlines in a thinner wire to make the sculpture more 3-dimentional. That didn't work out too well either. The thinner wire soon started crushing the outline so that it looked more like a wire blob than a wolf. I then had to undo all of the thinner wire, dismount the outline from the wood block and resculpt it so that you could tell that it was a wolf again. I then discarded the second outline and all of the thinner wire and remounted just the original outline back onto the center of the wood. I had run out of time at this point, so I just left it be as a wolf outline. I found the wire outline of my piece to be pretty successful. It turned out looking more like a wolf than I was expecting. I'm also glad that I got to use that cool piece of wood with the stars burned into it. It really added to what was an otherwise boring piece. Having the stars on it was a good concept, because the wolf was supposed to be howling at the moon and the stars, so it was nice how that worked out. If I were to do this piece again, I would probably research wire sculpture making, so that I would know some tricks to making to wire bend the way you want it to and such. Also, I would spend more time trying to shape the wire so that it fits around the outline doesn't crush it.
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