Lines: Sculpture

Okay, so, technically I'm not done this project. The theme of sculpture was 'tell a story,' and the story I was attempting to tell was a boy, riding his horse, while holding a lantern aloft, running away from a monster. And, of course, it would be doubly cool if a book told this story . . . So, obviously, there was only one possible recourse.
Which, of course, I had neither the patience nor the time for.
So, half the story remains untold. I would hopefully rectify that problem over the summer, but for now, the boy stands alone and unpursued.

Artists Create Original Art:
I think that this piece is fairly original. I mean, I know a lot of people carved books, but I really enjoyed coming up with my own story. (I consider myself more of a storyteller than an artist, no matter how pompous this sentence sounds.) I don't know where I got the idea from--maybe I was more-than-slightly influence by Game of Thrones, of which I have been reading almost exclusively for the past month. This scene is nothing from the Game of Thrones, though. I picture the boy riding the horse to be about nine or ten, and maybe it's more of a Little-Red-Riding Hood scenario, where is mother sent him into the woods to fetch something, and he stayed after dark. Or maybe he's a courier who stumbled through the wrong copse of trees. I don't know. I find these things interesting to think about.

Artists Develop Art Making Skills:
Ha. Okay, so, this was my first period of extended usage with an exacto knife. And yes, I learned out to cut stuff! Um, I used the fancy exacto knives, so they were really sharp, and I figured out the quickest way to cut the most amount of paper in one class period (cut two pages at a time, so you cut on and score the other), so that was greatly beneficial. Though, I do not think I will be let near sharp objects for a very long time. It will save all involved a lot of frustration and pain.