Wire Sculpture
“The Cellist” by Ryan Mast
My piece of art is called “The Cellist” and it is a wire sculpture of a man playing a cello. First I made the torso, half of both arms, the head, and the legs out of one piece of wire. Then I made the rest of both arms, and the cello stick out of another piece of wire. Lastly I made the body of the cello with most of another wire. My goal was to finish as soon as possible and for it still to look nice. I think it turned out amazing, and I’m really proud of it!
"Soccer Player" Wire Sculpture by Arlona Gashi
My artwork is about a soccer player who is about to kick a soccer ball. I used wire to create my art but some elements I used are color, shape and line. The reason why I think this is because the soccer ball I had to make white: that's color. The head and wrist are like circles and that is shape. And the spine is a straight line so that's line. The person that inspired me to do this was my brother Adem. In my opinion Adem is a good soccer player and he's on the soccer team for school. My brother and I practice at home with each other, so then I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea at all. My goals for this artwork was to make him look like he’s in motion and I wanted to pose him so then he looks like how he does in the image. So what I did was I raised his leg at his side and I leaned his body forward, and in my opinion I succeeded. At the end I was happy with the results. At first I did an outline but that didn't work out because the arm was too big to pose. So then I tried a stick figure and it was much easier to pose.
Sculpture by Lena Hess
I created a fairy out of wire. The wings are green and it has a little yellow star on the top of it’s wand. It was inspired by Tinkerbell. It was very difficult to bend the wire I had to start over multiple times to get the legs and arms the right size. I am very happy with the final product even though I was not really expecting it to turn out this way at all. The wire was very hard to work with so I am not sure how much I will use it in the future but, it does look really cool.
"Gymnast" by Araceli Reeves
“Untitled Wire Sculpture”
by Feben Ashagre
My sculpture is a person doing a split. I really like hearing everybody’s advice. Including you. I kind of liked how it turned out. But it was a little hard. I thought it would be a little easier. It was fun. But now I know that things are not going to turn out the way you want it to be. And when you try to make something from what you have, that’s creative. Art was/is fun!
"Baseball Player" by Isak Okanya
"Basketball Player" by Moses Zimmerman
"The Rustic Cheetah" by Caleb Bowman
I call my wire artwork “The Rustic Cheetah” because it is wire art, and wire art often looks rustic, and it is a cheetah. I decided to hang the spots from the wire because it made the cheetah look more realistic. The idea behind this cheetah is that it is going really fast and then it gets frozen in motion. I like how the cheetah looks like a cheetah, and you can tell that it is a cheetah when you look at it.
“The Majestic Whale” by Elijah Lehman
My artwork is wire art, it's a whale doing a pose in the water with splashes of water coming out of the side of it. My title for the piece is The Majestic Whale. The most obvious elements in the piece of artwork is wire, and wood for the base. The tools and techniques that were used to make this piece of artwork were pliers, which were used to twist the pieces of wire around each other and to bend them. My teacher inspired my work, we were talking about ballerinas and I was thinking about animals that do different types of poses, and I just thought of a whale jumping out of the water, and the poses that they make, so I decided on a whale.
I think my artwork expresses confidence because a whale is a big animal and I'd be scared to see what's underneath me if I were a whale, but they never care if they still do poses and swim peacefully. I think I'm very happy with this piece and I met the goals that I wanted to meet. I learned that art can take patience, because bending the wire was not easy to do, but you have to keep trying and have patience and you'll eventually get there. I think the final piece is what I wanted it to look like and I'm very happy with it. I think it will influence me to use patience when making art.
“Swimming Squid” by Ben Schnabel
My art is called, “Swimming Squid.” It is a wire rendering of a squid swimming. With wire, I created the motion of a squid. The motion of the wiggly wire makes the perfect motion of a squid. My goals were to make the appearance of the squid look more realistic. More colors would have been better.
“Untitled” By Allison Immel
For my wire sculpture I made a cardinal on a branch. I used wire and pliers to sculpt the cardinal. For who inspired my artwork I guess my grandma, her favorite animal was a cardinal. My goal was for the cardinal to look like a bird and it does, so I reached my goal. I learned that using wire hurts your hands and it's not easy. My final piece isn't exactly what I imagined, I imagined more of a detailed bird. Overall I think I did good.
“Bird” by Madelyn Stoltzfus
I call this wire sculpture piece “Bird” because this wire sculpture is literally of a bird. I did a bird because I love different types of birds, such as Hummingbirds, Robins, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Parrots, Puffins, Penguins, and more. I bent the wire so it would look like what my guiding picture looked like. I used pliers to cut the wire. Overall, I liked this project.