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Jay Arrera

Category: Sculpture

  • Godfrey

    Godfrey

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    This was a portrait that I never really seemed to get into the groove with.  I missed some sessions because I was traveling for work.  And the there were holidays.  I usually start with drawings, but since my schedule was I erratic, I did some drawings, a few quick water colors and a sketch portrait…

  • A quick portrait

    A quick portrait

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    Day 2 of this pose.  Really, I only managed to spend a couple of hours on it.  Having done the prelim art sketches last week helped a lot.  However, it was really only in the last 20 minutes or so that I started to get into the groove… And then it was time to be…

  • An Afternoon with the Greeks

    An Afternoon with the Greeks

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    Last Sunday, I got the rare privilege of going to an art museum by myself.  I spent a couple of hours checking out the closing day of the Portland Art Museum’s show, ‘The Body Beautiful‘. It is always a bit of a quandary when ‘headliner’ art exhibits such as this come to town.  They are usually packed with people elbow-to-elbow, the exhibition space…

  • Portrait Sculpture – Faire

    Portrait Sculpture – Faire

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    This is my most recent clay portrait.  I did the modeling last fall during the DIVA Open Studios Tour over a period of two weekends.  People came to visit my studio and watch me work with the model. Faire was a great model, and very generous with her time.  I spent the rest of the winter finishing it, just…

  • Open Studio Tour

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    The event is finally upon us.  I will be hosting an Open Studio as part of the DIVA Open Studio Tours over the next two weekends.  My studio will be open Saturday and Sunday, on October 16, 17, 23 and 24, from 11 AM to 5 PM.  I will have models posing for portraits each…

  • Portrait Sculpture – Charles

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    My most recent portrait sculpture. “Charles”Clay6″x11″x8″Share

  • Portrait Sculpture – Adrian

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    A recent portrait sculpture. I really enjoyed working on this one. “Adrian”Clay13″x14″x9″Share

  • Tutorial: Hollowing a clay model for firing

    Tutorial: Hollowing a clay model for firing

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    I thought some people would be interested in seeing how I prepare a clay model for firing.  Here are two sculptures that I recently completed. Above is a life-size half-torso. It’s 25″ tall, made of clay, which means that it weighed a lot when completed. I didn’t put it on a scale, but it probably…

  • Anatomy – Foot Sculpture

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    I completed this anatomical foot over the weekend. It’s life-size. This was actually a lot of fun, and only took about four hours. It was really good practice, and a great refresher course. I’ve been wanting to collect some plaster casts for drawing for some time now. I finally realized, ‘Why buy casts? I can…