Category: Sculpture
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Sionna
Another week, another sculpture. Here are the results of my first day modeling with this pose. Life has conspired to keep me out of of the studio recently, but I’m glad to be back at it. Today I went from zero-to-sixty, modeling quickly. I started from scratch with the armature and just went from there.…
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Portrait Sculpture with Dora Natella
I just finished a week-long workshop with Dora Natella on portrait sculpture. Dora was one of my favorite sculpture instructors as an undergraduate and post-graduate. This was a rare treat to work with her again because her workshop was at the Brookgreen Gardens. Brookgreen Gardens is one of the largest and finest sculpture gardens in…
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Tutorial: Sculpting Eyes
One question I hear often from beginning sculptors is, “How do I sculpt eyes?” My first response is usually, “The same way you sculpt hair, noses, hands, feet, and everything else. Observe the form and make that.” After that less-than-helpful response, here are some of my approaches and preferred references. There are a few key…
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Escorche armature
A nice quiet Thanksgiving morning. The kids are watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and the National Dog Show. I’m finishing up the armature for my escorche project in my studio downstairs. I’m very excited to be finally tackling this. I’ve been wanting to do it for years. There has been lots of local interest expressed…
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On Practice and Warmups
I have recently begun studying piano again in earnest. I have played off and on since I was a kid, but I never really developed any particular aptitude because I never liked to practice. Drawing on the other hand was never a chore. I could draw for hours and never feel like it was any…
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Jessica
It probably wasn’t until the last ten minutes of this fourth session that this sculpture started to ‘click’. Up to that point it was pretty mechanical: set up armature, pose, mass, refine. But something about the gesture just wasn’t satisfying me. It just felt too angular and stiff. So, I took a break, walked around…
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Jordan
Second session with this pose. It’s been a long hiatus dealing with non-art life. Always feels good to be back to the important stuff. I’ve missed so many seasons with this pose, I’m not sure yet whether I will keep it. We’ll see how much progress I make by the end of next week.
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Daniel
Here is a portrait that I just completed modeling. I’m pretty happy with how the texture and anatomy finished. This is probably a piece that I will continue to casting with. Which means of course, that I’m sure I will spend a few more hours modeling it in the cast wax before final. And a…
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The Art of Salvage
Sometimes despite your time invested, you just have to walk away and start something else. Sometimes there is some part of a project that still has some intrigue. Sometimes those parts keep you working on a piece far beyond its merits. And occasionally those parts become happy accidents. It is dangerous to recycle work and…
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