So hard to photograph these guys: lighting & focus is very difficult. Wish I were magically better at it (without any effort on my part of course! 🙂
Category Archives: Sculpture
The Whole Forest
Halloween
My Whole Forest (not just a tree) consisted of many many leaves treated with Paverpol, two homemade brooches (one tree bark & one treated fabrics cut as a maple leaf & further embellished), various leaf strewn scarves, the mask, a homemade leaf earring, a stone necklace, and a branching & webbed basket of forest creatures (well two singing birds, a hedgehog, & a tiny black cat).
Halloween
Two fabric formed
I think the limbs are just too narrow for the medium, and these will be very fragile & may break immediately, TBD. It was very difficult to get the cement mortar into the arms, hands, feet & ankles. The weight & stress of hanging the material pulls sections tight and it is necessary to poke & push material into the channels. So very much an experiment to see if this scale can work, or if I need larger & thicker forms!
On the workbench
Art Work
Still doing art, but mostly serious grunt work. Outdoor sculpture installation takes some effort: finding the right spot (which includes mock-up & visualization, communication, negotiation, preparation, and more :-), making or customizing an appropriate base, finalizing the method for attaching the sculpture to the base, etc.
Still to come actual transportation & installation!
Finessing
Staging
Cement work
Cement work can be slow going: creating forms or armature, then actual cement, then dry times, etc. The arch will be part of an installation with my small cast concrete Conversation figures. The large figure is intended for a large scale Conversation group, if the result is good enough and if I have the energy to make a full set!