The Craxford Snelling Workshop

Käthe Kollwitz Transcription Spent a long time modelling the child, was very tired today so everything was a bit of a mess. Children have fundamentally different features to adults so need to be careful not to just make small adults. Kim recommended I look at some friezes for research, she noted I had moved past…

Started at 9:30, was pretty tired because of late finish last night. Lots to get done today, but managed it all.

Headstone Project Stephan spun down the mistake off the back of the stone (the dates were in the wrong order, despite having checked with the client before carving), I finished the small headstone while he did this, got all letters cut before lunch. Transferred them before taking everything home to finish. Picked up some masonry…

Käthe Kollwitz Transcription Started on the far left side, working the figures as a whole, both faces and clothes. Happy with the movement of them and how the style works. Kim said not to over-work the faces of each figure, to leave them expressive. Due to headstone work only spent half a day on the…

Käthe Kollwitz Transcription Forgot notebook at studio so will likely miss a lot but started today by focusing entirely on the clothes. Kim did say to not forget the shape of the upper lip is convex (due to teeth). I managed a good couple of hours work between jobs. (5 more hours, total of 17.5h…

Käthe Kollwitz Transcription Started on the faces, using a block to get the planes in initially so the directions are all working. Worked on boarder, Tom said to make a block, but kim said to make it part of the ground plane, so we feel less disconnected from the march. Worked on the central figure’s…

Käthe Kollwitz Transcription Started on the relief project, working as quickly as possible. Got my highs in but might raise the central figure to separate her from the crowd. All roughs are in. Will work from the background out tomorrow. Full day, 7.5h (4.5 modelling, the rest prepping)

Fate of the Guilty Reading mostly today but also worked on the prints, trying to figure out how the drapery the figure is holding should look.

Fate of the Guilty Should have tried working from my books a bit more rather than just from myself, could have sped things up and given me a bit of confidence in some of the decisions. Will do that next day. Working in room is hard but I’m getting used to it, fairly happy with…

Fate of the Guilty Started work on the injured soldier’s bust (need to actually name it), got a rough shape in using the picture and my skull that I modelled to help get the structure and depth right. ‘Art that is sold is no longer ‘art’, it is reduced to a ‘wretched commodity’, work and…