Hi everyone. This is my first time ever posting to a blog! I haven't figured out how to hook this up to flickr yet so for now I will just upload these photos and hope it works :P.
Tonight was the first night of a new session at the weekly sculpting workshop where I work. Every six weeks we have a new model, and we pick a new pose for the next 6 weeks (lately we've been changing the pose on week 4). We usually alternate between male and female models. Judith was actually the first female model I ever sculpted 5 years ago, so it's interesting to sculpt her again. On the first day, usually we spend about an hour making the armature and picking the pose, and then the remaining two hours sculpting. I think she is about 1/6 scale.
Hi everyone. This is my first time ever posting to a blog! I haven't figured out how to hook this up to flickr yet so for now I will just upload these photos and hope it works :P.
Tonight was the first night of a new session at the weekly sculpting workshop where I work. Every six weeks we have a new model, and we pick a new pose for the next 6 weeks (lately we've been changing the pose on week 4). We usually alternate between male and female models. Judith was actually the first female model I ever sculpted 5 years ago, so it's interesting to sculpt her again. On the first day, usually we spend about an hour making the armature and picking the pose, and then the remaining two hours sculpting. I think she is about 1/6 scale.
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wow! welcome to itb! your sculpture looks amazing, as usual... it seems like a great start, and i can't wait to see the end result. how long does it take to complete a sculpture? do you have links to pics of your other sculpture of judith? i think i do actually... are you concentrating on something different this time with her than before?
as far as linking to flickr, when you are composing the message, you can select the picture and click on the 'link' icon to link it to your flickr page---that's all i do. if you know how to code in html, you can just stick a href="" tags (i'm not writing it out because i think it will pick it up within the comment) before and after the pic.
also, when you are tagging (labels) you need to put commas in between, or they will run together. currently, there is a tag for 'lanaconqueso sculpture' which i'm assuming you intended to be separate. i can change this for you if you want.
i'm thinking of making a how to page to make posting easier.
also, maybe we could make profile pages (different from the ones that blogger provides) where you can provide info about yourself, show gallery pics, etc.
that was a very long comment, huh
oops, yeah, I just figured out the tag thing. I think I fixed it, thanks! We usually get 6 weeks to work on a pose. The last session we switched to a new pose halfway through, which I like because I tend to overwork sculptures after a few weeks. It ends up being about 2 hours of actual sculpting each week. I rarely "finish" a sculpture... they just sit around until I need the armature again and take it apart.
this is beautiful! i find it amazing that you could create this piece in only 2+ hours of sculpting. her pose reminds me of one of Degas' bronze dancers. it is interesting to see the sculpture from different vantage points. from the back, she looks quite curvaceous and feminine while from the side and front, much more boyish. i'm curious to see what you will do with the more detailed areas of her face and hands. the wire armature coming out of her hands is kind of intriguing. do you ever cast your sculptures in plaster or other materials?
Thank you! I have done two resin casts in the past, all from plaster waste-molds. I think putting the breasts on will help with the front & side views. I usually put those off because it obscures the shape and angle of the ribcage. Then again, putting on the butt obscures the shape and angle of the pelvis. Both of those are relatively inflexible forms and things start looking off if they're allowed to deform too much. I didn't notice the wires from the hands going off at the same angle. Maybe i should do something with them... Usually i just leave those dangling because I re-use the armature.
Cindy, I realized I didn't answer all your questions in your comment... I might have some old pics of the first judith sculpture. I'll try to dig them up because it would be fun to compare :). Nowadays I try to focus more on the gesture and pose... back then I was just trying to get it to look like what I was seeing. For instance this pose she's actually got the opposite hand up, and not so much of a curve in the spine. I put in the extra curve first, and then decided the arms looked off balance so I switched them.
welcome! and WOW! beautiful sculpture. i always thought that in sculpturing you start off with a big block and you carve out the form. But it looks like from your pics and comments that you are adding pieces of clay on to a frame and then sculpturing that. i like the wires coming out of the arms. makes it seem that the figure is coming into form. again, beautiful work!
Thank you! I tried carving something once out of soapstone but it was HARD work. I like additive sculpting just because it's easier to fix mistakes... I build the clay up mostly with my fingers and then I will use my fingers and tools to shape it and cut things away.
wow, you've put her in a beautiful posture. (i'm a yoga junkie, so i like forms.)
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