Clay Sculpture Planning

I've decided to do my clay sculpture on my friend Signe. If I had to choose an animal for Signe, it would have to be a cat. I choose to do a cat to represent Signe because she likes attention, is crazy and likes to do what ever she wants, sleeps a lot, likes to play games, and is always late to things. Signe would never be caught in a library because she does not enjoy reading despite being very creative and she also has HDHD and can't sit still enough to read for more then 20 minutes.

Brainstorming-Maya Angelou

I think I want to do Maya Angelou. At first I was considering myself, but had second thoughts on that idea. I'm not sure how I thought of Maya Angelou but she popped into my brain. Not only is she a poet but also a powerful speaker and an amazing woman who has gone though  rough times. She was born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri but also was raised in Stamps, Arkansas where she faced discrimination due to her skin tone. Things that I can integrate into my symbolic portrait are dance and music. She worked as a waitress and cook to support her and her son after she finished high school. She toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess so I could possibly look that up and find something to represent it. Worked with Malcome X. Martin Luther King was assassinated on her birthday.

Visiting artist: Hamlett Dobbins.

There are too many great works of art that Hamlett has created to choose just one. But one painting that stuck out to me is the, "untitled (the split)"I like this painting because I enjoy the choice of color that Hamlett chose to work with and it reminds me of somewhere warm and tropical. It seems as if there is a sandy beach and water and there seems to be a flower of some sort. Wheather or not this was to be intended, that is how I interpreted it.


My question is why he chose to work with the mamterials that he uses and what gives him inspiration the most (is he just inspired when he is moved or does inspiration hit him from nowhere and he crates for the pure joy of it?)...and what the meanings are behind the paintings...and why I can't click on all of the pictures...didn't understand Hamlett Dobbins' chronology...do you sketch, put it on the computer, then onto canvas?