When he was about 5 years old, Spanish-born Juame Plensa sometimes found a sense of a magical inspiration when hiding inside his family’s piano. There, when his mother would sit down to play, the sound of the music immediately became embodiable for him, as the physical vibrations of each note passed through Plensa’s body thanks…
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Adding hair and dress to small Sacagawea sculpture
After straightening the face a bit I moved onto sculpting in the shapes of the hair and clothing. Though a couple of things that I am still thinking about are moldmaking and casting issues. Since this is oil-based clay, it isn’t permanent and will need to have a mold made and then put in another…
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…