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[YueLiang]

hello, i'm yueliang. i am not really sure what to say on here. you are all very intimidating (by the way, i can't spell and my punctuation is terrable, hope you all can stomach it) i am the ultimate ameture, as i have never sold anything and don't even know where to begin. i happened upon this site the other day trying to get some idea of where to begin, and you all seemed like the kind of people who would know. I have had some schooling in art, but while byu is a great school, it is not the one to go to for a degree in fine art. I worked at a foundry for a while, and that was very educational and bronze is the direction i want to go. i work in clay and i guess my sculptures are abstract, or non representational, but to tell you the truth, i get mixed up on all those definitions. i guess i would describe them as.. emotional, and based on the beauty i have grown up seeing in the mountains of oregon. people see all sorts of things in my sculptures that i never intended, i find it rather amusing. one of these days i will finish a sculpture and ask for some input! I hope that i can add something of value to your discussions, i have already benifited from your collective (and impressive) knowlege, thankyou! ---yueliang

[fritchie]

YueLiang - Keep reading here, and post anytime you feel like it. Your post is easy to understand, and I’m sure many of our viewers feel the same way. Even the experienced artists had to start somehow. Why don’t you tell us a little more about how you work - location, and so on. How is the art scene in SLC?

I visited there on the way to grad school in California many years ago, but it was really just a brief sightseeing trip. The Wasatch Mountains just to the east are beautiful.

[YueLiang]

Thanks for replying Fritchie! especially about isc, it gets mentioned so much in here, i was really in the dark. the art scene in slc...i know a few artists in the area, but i am in provo. most of what i saw working in the foundry was figurative, and that is what i notice in oregon, too, a lot of animals as well. I try to stay out of salt lake city, or any city for that matter. never have found one i liked. If you go into the new conference center, there are some life size bronzes there, as well as at temple square. sculpture is pretty big in a little town called springville just south of provo, there is a foundry there and in alpine, which is north. I worked in alpine. like i said, almost all of it is figurative, and(i know i shouldn't say this) some of it was so poorly done i had a hard time wasting mold material on it. but of course some was lovely. myeself, i have barly touched working with the human figure, a friend/fellow sculptor convinced me it would help my abstract peices. i am completly conviced, but still don't really enjoy doing the figure, i want to take it abstract the second i see an interesting curve or hollow. i just love the inspiration i get from knees and ankles! most of my inspiration comes from bones, especially vertibre, and plants. ok, i'm rambling horrably. i hope somewhere in there i answered at least one of your questions. thanks, yueliang

[fritchie]

Thanks for coming back with this comment. I’ve never been to Provo or elsewhere in northern Utah outside of SLC, but I did take a Spring Break trip through southern Utah, about 1960 - 61. It was to the Northern Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, then Bryce, Zion, etc. in southern Utah and north about to Beaver or wherever a crude highway crossed the southern Wasatch range into central Utah, down to Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches parks before swinging back into Arizona and back to Southern Ca. A beautiful trip.

Enjoyed your comments on sculpture. Keep them coming, and if you can get up images at some point, great! Even clays, if that’s what you have.

[Araich]

YueLiang - welcome :)

I too enjoyed your comments, in particular on abstraction. Like yourself I veer from figuration quite naturally. I cannot take a curve as just a shoulder, I'd rather it found it's own place in a work, and I follow it blindly into the unknown.

[obseq]

YueLiang,

Great to have you here. Always remember: even the most experienced artists here are still learning.

There is a great wealth of information here. Many talented people whom I've already learned much from.

Best of luck!

[YueLiang]

Thanks all! could be that i'm pregnant, but i'm all emotional now! yueliang

[icreate]

I hope you continue to come to the forum. I'd like to hear more about your work. I think creative people on the most part are insecure, so join the crowd. My hubby and i joke about it all the time. "it is this project that they will discover that I don't know what I am doing." Somehow giving your self a title, scultpor, musician, etc. makes it all the more difficult. So after 20 years i keep telling myself that I'm still learning.

When are you due? a baby... ahhhhhhh. As a sculptor who loves to sculpt children, I'd love it if you lived closer. Hope the pregnancy is going well. My own baby is at ORU right now.

keep in touch,
Bridgette

[anne (bxl)]

hi Yueliang!

have your some pictures of your works? I am sure everyone here would be interrested to see them.

[icreate]

I would love to post some photos, but I am not sure how. You can see them at my web site http://www.creativesculpture.com

http://www.creativesculpture.com/images/kipper_mongeon2.jpg

There I hope I did it, this is of a young man who died, it was placed in the kipper mease sports park in pasadena, texas.

[fritchie]

Hello, Bridgette - I've enjoyed reading your posts. You probably can be a great help to people feeling a need for greater public attention. Glad to see you got up an image.

[icreate]

fritchie- thanks for the encouragement. I think this board is a great idea and really want to contribute. The photo think was a bit tricky but I think I got it figured out. Now if I could only tell what the other icons mean ie.. the cirlce in the envelope?

YueLiang- Now did I understand that you are pregnant? I hope you are doing well. My prayers are with you.

[YueLiang]

hello, bridgette,yes, i am five months pregnant with a baby girl, sorry i havn't been around lately, i decided the internet was not a necessity and food was, so, no more internet access at my house! no fun! yueliang

[icreate]

congratulations! A girl. Is it your first? I loved having a girl. I am sure I would have loved having a boy, but never had one so I don't know. A girl. That is wonderful. Having a child was one of the most creative things I have ever done.

I am sorry you won't be on the internet much. There is always the library, and friends houses. I do understand- Priorities. My husband and I are still on dial up. And every month we say. Soon we will get road runner. especially with his work. He needs it. We don't have cable TV either. But we sacrifice some things to put the money back into our work and our kids.

Do keep in touch when you can. and Be creative

[YueLiang]

yep, this is our first, how many do you have? my husband is rooting for five, but he didn't stay awake all night getting kicked! that makes creativity a little harder, too, i must say. i've been promising to post a picture on this site for a while, i've really got to do that. and i'll post one of my masterpeice when she is born, too! yueliang

[icreate]

I have a daughter 18 at college. And a step son who does not live with us who is 15. I love little ones. They are so much fun. You can explore and teach and grow together. I also tend to adopt as good friends, junior high girls.

I remember the day I did a tracing of myself on the sidewalk and colored it in with my kid. It was the greatest satisfaction I have ever had in creating. but then there are so many ways to create, you can make marshmellow people, and color eggs at easter, and make up your own stories together and bind them in a book. The list is endless. I am sure your daughter will find her way into the studio as well. Mine did, and often she would sit on the edge of the modeling stand chatting with the nude model while everyone worked. I had this nude that I worked on and didn't like, she asked if she could finish it. SHe was so proud of that thing!


She would go to the houston arteries with me. Sometimes there would be strange performance art, and she would also notice the people who would sit in the tarp in the trees. She would walk around the yard and look at the sculpture.

Eventually she went to the high school for the performing and visual arts. Were she met her own creative friends that she could be funky with.

now she is a writer, and a photographer and into video. Her creativity is flourishing and I am glad that I have exposed her to so much. You are going to have a blast.

[icreate]

by the way. I would have loved to have more children. Atleast 2 or 3. But now that I am getting a bit older. I am looking forward to a new stage of my life, and saving that nurturing until I get a hold of my grandkids!