Fifty Shades of Grey

 

Here's the first of the framed tree sculptures all finished, really pleased with the way it's turned out, looking forward to playing with a variety of colours as I work on the next ones. Thought about calling this Fifty Shades of Grey...as there are so many different tones in all the shadows, but I think I'll just go with 'framed tree sculpture'...might increase the traffic from search engines if I go with the other title though :-)

 

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Sculpture part II

Artweeks is going really well, just Saturday and Sunday to go :) In amongst all the art and framing talk, tea and coffee making and general schmoozing I’ve found some time to finish my little sculptural experiment. Here’s a picture of my original sketch and the final piece…hope you like it :)

Walking....towards Saturday

Shop building finished at the Cuckoo’s Nest now, so frantically trying to get some work done for Artweeks ;) Here’s a little experiment that’s all caged up to cure overnight…hopefully it’ll work…we’ll findout about 1.00 tomorrow, there’s nothing like cutting it fine :)

todays work

I've built a clay shim and applied the first area of plaster. I've used a rather old packet of plaster so I'm hoping it'll be okay and set, if not I'll need to do it again next week...have also been working on Snow White, I've finished blocking in the main shapes, so the next task will be starting on the patterned sections. I've been working in a slightly different way on this picture, using charcoal to draw the lines I want and then sealing the correct marks with the acrylic, washing off the rest of the charcoal and then drawing the next layer. It's a very effective way of building up the design, Definately something I'll continue doing.

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stage 3

I've covered the wet clay with silicone, building it up in layers and finally adding some ridges to key it Into the next stage which will be the plaster 'mother' mold... it took several hours to carefully work this all in, so hopefully it'll work ;) also started drawing out the 'snow white' picture today, more on that tomorrow :)

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stage 2

Modelled a head in the end, spent longer on it than I really should have as its just an experiment, but I was really enjoying working with clay again...haven't used clay for 25 years ! Frightening how time flies...

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stage 1

I've built a giant matchstick ! I'm going to build a simple clay model over the top of this, no idea what of yet, all a bit of an experiment, just want to go through the process and see what problems arrise. Large board in background has had base colour applied ready for next painting which will probably be titled "snow white"...

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some new toys...

I'm going to do a little experiment with these over the next few days...first week in ages that i have 3 clear days in the studio... :)

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stone...

Here is the actual photo...I'll put that down to jet lag ;)

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stone...

Well I'm back in the studio today after my trip to oz. Generally doing some cleaning up and a few odd jobs, but on a more exciting front I've just been out and picked up this little piece of stone...something new for 2011...sculpture... :)

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