Animal Assemblage

The subject of this sculpture is a blue tang fish. To make this, I used crumpled up newspaper and masking tape to build the shape of the fish, then I had to cut different sections of paper out of magazines to hot glue onto the newspaper and tape model. The assignment for this project was to make a sculpture of an animal. I wanted to do a fish so when I googled "fish" and went to images I found a picture of a blue tang and used that as my reference for the patterns of color on the fish.

Composition rules and techniques are used to determine the lay out and shape of one's art project. For this project though, I was tasked with making this blue tang which had to be a certain shape and look a certain way. This left no opportunity to use any specific composition rules and techniques. Originally, I was going to make a sculpture of a fox, however before I even got halfway done I realized that it wasn't likely that I would finish in time because my sculpture was on too large of a scale and it was coming out awful. So on the last day I dumped the whole thing in the trash and decided to make a fish instead. My plan also involved using cut up paint chips for the color on the fish, this also changed because there was only about 1 paint chip that was blue in the entire bucket, and it wasn't even the right shade. I then changed my idea and used cut up sections of a magazine. This makes it look much worse because none of the blues match but I had to make it work.

The story behind this piece is that this is not just any blue tang. It's a special blue tang with short term memory loss named Dory. This relates to my life because I like Finding Nemo and one time I was snorkeling and I saw one of these. If I could redo this, I would use construction paper or paint chips to make the colors on the side because all of the random shades of blue make this look like crap. Also I would have added an eye, and some more fins.