The Rising One

Continued work on the maquette, finished her feet and hands, neck needs some work before anything but that shouldn’t take long. Still struggle with the female figure. Don’t want to be ‘sexy’ at all.

Thinking of developing the idea of floating angles/figures into a show. Needs thought and research, just from a conversation with Lily.

Portrait Modelling

Started the day by catching up with what I missed yesterday, Kim was kind enough to some one on one time. I think she’s somewhat sympathetic. Got these on quick and directed the eyes down. For the pupil Kim gave us lots of different methods, a crescent shape, nothing, a single circle etc. I went somewhere in the middle and put a very small dot of clay at the back of the hollow. Phil has very dark eyes and I wanted a soft look in his eyes, so tried to keep the information to a minimum.

After this we moved onto the flesh around the eye, building up the soft skin around by pressing very wet clay in to give it a texture very different from the compacted clay seen on the top of the head for instance. quickly we moved onto the top of the eye. I started by packing lots of clay above the eye to fill the cavity but after talking to Kim about negative space and darkness in sculpture I took this out and instead pressed soft clay like a curtain from the brow, this gave it much more depth and am much happier with this method.

Finally we modelled from under the nose, sitting very close to Phil and looking up to his nose. Then cutting away the shape of the nostrils with a fine ribbon tool. My nose wasn’t great, looking more like mine, didn’t help that my lips weren’t in so when I put these on (quickly) the nostrils were half covered.