DAVID FIELDS ART

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Foundry-Pouring Hot Metals

I'm in the process of making molds and pouring 2 Iron, 1 Bronze, and 1 Stainless Steel sculptures. Here's some photos.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Flood 09

We were flooded into our house for 4 days this past week. It was amazing!

Bee

I had several people ask about making another bee, so I made this one a few days ago.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Finished the Heron today, I like it. My camera was acting up and the dark and light pics are the result.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

I'm working on making this Heron for my aunt. It's coming along great so far.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Show

I'm getting ready for the big show in 2 more days.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Worked at the shop all day on the Dragonfly commission. Finding parts for this one took awhile. I cut the wings from some leftover sheet I had laying around. All in all I like it better than I thought. Especially after some paint. This piece was to be done in blue and yellow per the customers request. It still needs some touch ups here and there but is practically done.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

So here are a couple of new oils I had to do for my painting for non majors class.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Newest Acrylic

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Sunburst

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Here are a couple of my drawings.

I love most kinds of art and want to try my hand at many of them. My first two loves are sculpture (mostly metals) and drawing (mostly cartoons and sequential). I'm taking a painting class right now in acrylics and oils. It's my first painting class and I have to follow certain guidelines but I'm doing other stuff besides the class work and having alot of fun.

Artist Statement

I love art of all mediums. I love being able to create in 2D, 3D, or 4D whatever my imagination shows me. Being able to take a small handful or a large pile of seemingly useless parts and creating something of beauty or meaning gives me an extreme sense of accomplishment. It gives me a feeling of pride to be able to make someone glow with fascination or amazement at what I made with the junk they handed me. Being able to take a sheet of paper or a canvas and create something of beauty that also makes people feel emotion or surprise is a gift that I treasure.

Whether a personal piece or a commissioned piece, I start all my sculptures the same. I look through all my scrap and parts to see if I see the finished piece or parts of it in what I have. If all the parts are not there, I wait till they are or until I find what I call the heart piece. The heart piece is usually the first piece I find, and it gives me the vision of the way the finished piece will look. It gives me the starting point hence, “The Heart Piece.” Sometimes the heart piece can be very small and sometimes it can make up the majority of the piece. Either way, if it is not there, the piece feels wrong. The piece might still look good to others and overall be a great piece but it will lack that small extra that pushes it over the top. Almost all of my sculptures have a heart piece and to me would not be the same without it.

My non-parts pieces usually start with a heart piece also but the entire work is made from scrap or new metals. In other words I do not use any pre-made parts such as nuts, bolts, gears or the like. Presently I am studying paint and how to apply painting techniques to my sculpture. Some pieces I like raw with no paint so you can see the joints and welds, which sometimes add more life than paint ever could. Other times the paint is the heart piece and without it the piece is just undone.