Herb Williams 03/6/14

     Herb Willims is a sculptor from Montgomery, Alabama born in 1973. He earned his BFA in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College. He worked in two apprenticeships during this time and after his schooling he worked with other artists casting bronze sculptures. He now lives and creates work from Nashville, Tennessee. Though he has made work in different mediums, he was made famous for his Crayola crayon sculptures.

     I first discovered this artist when I was working on our transformation project. I was making a sculpture out of crayons and wanted to see what others had made from crayons. His crayon art is at a much bigger scale than my own was. One of the reasons why I like his art outside of the aesthetic value is that he donates his sculptures to places like hospitals and parks where the people who will appreciate it most will see it, children.

This piece was created for the awareness of wildfires in the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. With the heat in the area the crayons have since melted and created a new shape and form. The base is what seems to be a skeleton/skin form with the paper of the crayon bonding the two forms.

Unwanted Visitor: Portrait of Wildfire
Crayons
3-8 ft tall




I really enjoy the repetition on this piece of the stripes and how they continue on throughout the deer and into the pond. I really couldn't a good look as to how this was constructed but I'm guessing that the surface is the ends of the crayons.


May 2013





Sources:
http://www.herbwilliamsart.com/#/bio/4575695378
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/andrea/miscellaneous/herb_williams/crayonsculpture05.jpg
http://www.designboom.com/art/crayon-wildfire-sculptures-by-herb-williams/
http://www.herbwilliamsart.com/