How to Balance a Calder Style Cascading Mobile Sculpture
ArtEdGuru.com shows you how to set up and balance a cantilevered, cascading mobile sculpture. You can apply this techniques to any mobile.
ArtEdGuru.com shows you how to set up and balance a cantilevered, cascading mobile sculpture. You can apply this techniques to any mobile.
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Superb demo and instructions. Will be trying my hand at this. Thank you! Also, the exhibition at the Smithsonian of Calder's art is much more dramatic now that I've seen your video.
@artedguru
2 ай бұрын
I really appreciate your comment! Thanks!
@dawnbowie352
2 ай бұрын
@@artedguru Understanding and appreciation come only when education is freely available to all seekers. Teachers expand the minds and souls of each generation to come, and in this case, I proudly claim the benefit of that joy. Bless you, sir - art and physics came together in your video. Thus two of my passions have been fueled today by a fine teacher! Please keep providing quality content.
Thank you for this great tutorial. This is one of those things that looks impossibly complicated until someone shows you how. Thank you for taking the time to do this!
Beautiful - and the background music made this video almost therapeutic.
His work is just so relaxing... Just a gentle breeze is enough to start them moving.. I am lucky enough to have found an 8 inch desk AC in the early 90's here in Buffalo NY... One of my favorite finds..
I have a neat idea but my husband didn’t understand about this so now he can help me. Thank you
Thank you so much. I am an artist that sculpts very small clay figures and objects that I wanted to make into a mobile. I never could figure out the balancing, until I watched your video. It was extremely helpful, and very well presented. Thank you again, and keep posting.
Awesome! thank you so much for sharing your expertise in creating this beautiful art form.
Thank you for such an easy to understand and to follow video. I cannot wait to do this project with my daughter.:)
Thank you and the simple whatever is down that’s the direction to move the knot 👍🏼 🎉
Great video, and nice to hear Chris Zabriskie's "Candlepower" for the music.
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks! Simplified something I thought was going to be very involved.
@artedguru
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Really instructive video! I will give it a try
Amazing thank you sooooo much for the tutorial!!!
Excellent. I tend to overthink a project and make a big production out of something simple. I can get everything I need at Dollar Tree or the 99 Cents store.
The best and easy tutorial. Thank u so much! 🇧🇷
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
This is fab!!! Thx
Thank you - using this for my middle school art project!
@artedguru
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! I hope it goes well. I have more resources at www.firehousepublications.com if you need any. Free stuff on my blog, www.artedguru.com.
awesome. thank you so much!
Excellent - thank you.
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Quite useful, thank you!
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
You are very welcome!
Hello, I love how simply you explained how to construct your mobile. I was wondering if you might be willing to share the patterns that you used for your mobile?
@artedguru
3 жыл бұрын
They are based on shapes I speak about in my book, "The Emotional Color Wheel."
i really liked the video it also had lovely music
This is amazing. Thanks for your video.
@artedguru
3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
Ty
great video !
@artedguru
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the visit
I just learnd today what mobile is at school👍
Thanks 🙏
What a great find. You really clarified some topics for me, in such a beautifully clear and calm way. This has opened up so many projects for me. Off to the work table! Are the objects/ forms also getting incrementally larger as they ascend. Is there a ratio to keep in mind?
@artedguru
6 ай бұрын
I'd experiment with ratio. Big to small or heavy to light works well.
Nice information
Hello Eric! My question is how long are each of sticks? It looks like 3 are the same size and 3 are different.
@artedguru
5 жыл бұрын
They are all about 2 inches larger than their neighbors. I start with a stick about 6 inches and each one is a couple inches longer than the next.
@nickinewton4093
5 жыл бұрын
@@artedguru Thanks Eric!
Hello there 😊 Amazing and very interesting project Super like 👌👌👌 Well explained Thanks for sharing Do keep posting new ideas 💡💡💡 Warm regards and best wishes The UnknownManCub 👍🧑🏭😎
How could I create those pendants
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The student can glue the knot at the end to make sure it holds. Thanks!
What material did you use for your forms?
@artedguru
6 жыл бұрын
Lauren Herring these are foamcore.
@artedguru
5 жыл бұрын
Foamcore, but I have used many different materials in the past. The key though is to use light materials.
Can you help me with the sizes of the sticks?
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
I buy sticks that are 32 inches long. So the longest stick is 32 inches, each one after that is about 2 or 3 inches shorter than the last... so 32, 29, 27, 24, etc. However, you can do the same technique with huge sticks or tiny ones. The technique always works.
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Measurements of the sticks?
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
They are 3 ft sticks I got from Nasco. About 1 yard or 1 meter long.
Hi! how do you put your shapes on your sticks I am having a very hard time trying to figure that out
@RICK-APEX
4 жыл бұрын
I'm using paper to do this since I don;t have other materials
@artedguru
4 жыл бұрын
I used foam core and glue. You could also use cardboard too. Elmers glue will work for cardboard. Hot glue works too if you have it.
@RICK-APEX
4 жыл бұрын
E Gibbons ok thank you this video really helped me with my project