The Craxford Snelling Workshop

Solidarity Worked on foreground figure today. Still working between projects. Harry Pollitt Portrait Continued working on this after 5pm. Put a base on and started the letters.

In-between day today. Worked between Solidarity, Phil and the Ernst Barlach copy. Thankful for plenty of essential work done. Drew out the Barlach copy full size. Laid out all of my preliminary drawings for Solidarity and wired off the portrait of Phil ready for firing. Also sorted my stone for the portrait, so after setting…

Phil Portrait I added plaster to the back where I’d taken too much off. As it was wet I just strayed it down a lot then put new plaster straight on. If it was dryer I would leave in a bucket until fully saturated. Then go back in with new plaster, to stop lamination. Kim…

Phil Portrait Continued carving the plaster, took way too much off the back first thing. Solidarity (working title) Laid out the background clay and started a v quick figure, needs plenty of work, hopefully Kim will help. Harry Pollitt Portrait Emma helped me a lot today, took a load of clay off and moved the…

(Was first day back to school yesterday, not much happened, dropped tools and kept to myself. Was good to see some of them.) Phil Portrait Started this project by casting a block of plaster and carving it like stone. Was hard, portraits are. Gained some confidence by the end of the day but need to…

Harry Pollitt Portrait First think I (Morgan) noticed was the eyes, they’re either too big or the forehead is too big. So instead of working on this I focused on the cheeks and mouth in the AM. After lunch I moved onto the eyes and head. I think the eyes are in the right place.…

Harry Pollitt Portrait Continued with the large volumes and the skull structure. Put the eyes in. Instead of measuring I’m looking at the relationship between features on the photos.

Harry Pollitt Portrait Work was approved over the weekend, spent much of the day setting up the armature and figuring out the scale, went with 3/4 life in the end and 2/3 was too small. Working between lanteri and notes made in Kim’s class. Very difficult working from photos as u can’t really take measurements.

Phil Surey’s Workshop Spoke to Bailey (artist commissioning ‘Jack’ inscription. Letters need to be slightly reduced and the spacing closed up. Will try to age the letters too. The cross is to be replaced by the Portsmouth’s Coat of Arms. Just practiced Trajan. Remembering the stroke order and technique for some of the letters, like…

SLLA Show Finished and polished the CSW sign.