More Refinement Good week -- last week's concerted mummification with religiously moistened paper towels and copious plastic wrap...

Refinement, Stage 1 Tough week! Learned the hard way the importance of very carefully and thoroughly wrapping up a sculpture. Went to...

Block In Good start, but much to do. After looking through the more lens of the camera I can see some obvious areas where bulk is...

I really wanted to attempt a male figure for this assignment, but the QTVR reference samples provided only had the one with the crossed...

Refinement Part 2 Made some good progress this week. Tried to focus in on getting the likeness closer to the cast. Still much to be done...

I lengthened the nose and snout areas per last week's notes. Some good progress, but a long way to go to achieve any kind of likeness...

Armature Here's mine. Took the advice to seal the wood base; I used some kilz I found in the garage. Also added some epoxy putty to the...

Took the advice to start over from scratch this week. Certainly was much preferable to have reference to work from, even if all the...

Reclining Figure - Block In It was great getting my fingers into a nice, new and much wetter bag of clay this week. Makes a huge...

Had a lot of fun getting my fingers into this clay for the first time. It's an interesting material that changes consistency wildly! I do...