4/13/24
A fast experiment to see if I could make a large hand with minimal armature. This is a twice life-size hand that would fit nicely on a 12 ft tall man.
The only support or armature is an aluminum rod through the arm. The fingers are self-supporting (because they're mostly vertical).
As I work in the studio sometimes time is a meaningless abstraction. Sometimes it feels like I've only spent minutes but in reality it has been hours. So... I'm pretty sure this took a couple hours to make; in reality, not my distorted state of ecstatic creativity.
2/18/24
I'm very often simultaneously sculpting at school and in my studio. (Which results in my hands being super dry and cracked!) The last few weeks I've been working on another in a series of "people with hands".
Maybe I should explain: When I do portrait busts I usually include only the head and shoulders, but I want to see how to work hands into the mix as well.
Clicking the image here will bring you to a page with some images of the latest "people with hands" sculpture.
2/10/24
More practice... I like to show my students that I don't just talk, I practice what I preach. So I try to keep a project or two going there, working on it during lunch and my prep hour. This small relief sculpture an exercise in making hands. The hands are about 2/3 life size.
1/20/24
I wanted to practice some drapery so what better way to do that than set up a still life with cloth draped over a pot I made. It was fun trying to duplicate all the intricate folds and creases. Click here to see the result.