Wire Armature Sculpture Brainstorm

In class, we were shown lots of examples for our upcoming assignment. We're doing wire armature sculptures with "skin". I immediately started sketching ideas on my paper as she showed us past students' artwork. Some really great ones caught my eye, including some with stretched canvas for skin and wire shaped like clam shells. This made me really want to do something inspired by something aquatic.

During our brainstorm we got pieces of scrap paper and magazine pages and crumbled and formed them to find shapes that were interesting. I really liked the clam shape, so I did some folding and moving till I came up with these simple things:

 Translating this to some sort of sketch, and I found something really interesting. As I formed the geometric shape that trailed from the fan folding pattern, I noticed my sketch was turning out to look like something of a tentacle. I went with it and started filling it in to add depth to the end and more geometric body work. The brainstorm left me with this shape:

I really like it too. It's organic, yet geometric. I can picture them being tall and kinetic as you walk around them. As for skin options, I have a whole list:

• toilet paper
• nylon
• stockings
• thin fabric
• condoms? - suggested by Laurie (LOL!)
• celophane
• gauze
• feathers
• balloons
• silk
• wedding veils
• gauze

Not sure what I plan on using, or if this is even the shape I'm going to go with. Lot's more work to do. Tuesday we start working with wire.