While my current work studio is still a bit fresh in paint and new and we had frigid temps here in Northern Colorado all week so I found that adversely affected the creativity time of all my materials. The best way to work with mold rubbers and Forton is from 60-75 degrees F and the…
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Ghost Dance Sketch Female Figure and Change of Clay
With the whole sculpture starting to take on some definitive form by now, just the other day I began working on the figure of a woman in this composition of Ghost Dancers. I realized that the Clayette Clay may not do the trick on a small figure. Still a great clay, but to hard for…
Tutorial: Sculpting Afro-textured Hair by Mark Newman
While achieving basically any realistic hair style or a hairdo, a texture, is a tall order for any sculptor, it gets especially tricky when you try to carve the curly African kind of a cut. But luckily I have a certain list of the basic tools I use for this. A few ball end tools…