They pay me for this?

  I think I was channeling Calvin from Calvin and Hobbs this day. Had a great time with my preschool students teaching Frosty Fun and talking about what happens to snow when the weather warms up. We have fun coming up with new projects for kids and play off of each other’s ideas at the [...]

Smooth reclining

  Here’s that third sculpt of the reclining nude  in white clay with smooth finish. This is a quickie sculpture but the smoothing did take longer than the rough, tooled look. On this one I tried to capture the little smile on the model’s face and the way her arm pressed against her cheek. Great [...]

Never drink water from the bathtub after you’ve peed in it.

This little tidbit of information was shared at snack-time from one four-year-old boy to another while I was handing out cups of water today in art class. I think it’s great advice. Thanks, kid!

Our angels -Thanks, kid!

I was struggling to finish this piece I dreamed of -one of my tasks, when a pre-school student of mine gave me a figurative sculpture of her own.
Her father said it was really important to her that she give this to me.  Thanks, kid.

Elena’s Kite

A few years ago I had a student at the art center where I teach named Elena who started coming to classes in her wheelchair with her Dad at age two. After many surgeries she eventually was able to walk using two crutches.
About two years ago she began coming to my preschool classes alone, using [...]

Just a quickie!

 
I know it was fast, but was it good for you? It’s good for me!
This black clay is messy, but I love the results. It’s a challenge to complete a full body sculpture enough in one modeling session that it only requires some minor touch up afterward.  I add hair after the session so when [...]

Casting in Bronze

 
Here’s the first little nude bronze I ever cast right after breaking it free from its sand mold following a bronze pour in Moncure, NC last spring.
Kevin Eichner teaches this class through Central Carolina Community College that covers the basics of bronze.
It’s a lot of work.
We started with wax models of our piece, then added [...]

Sculpture: Ruler of the universe

 
One of my friends added an interesting quote to his e-mail signature the other day which prompted an e-mail discussion among fellow sculptors.
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”   Bertrand Russell
“Ah that is an interesting quote. But I have to [...]

The wrong message

 
There was no mention of whether the woman who received this bedroom set as a wedding gift from her husband survived her wedding night. The craftsmanship is excellent, but the symbolism is as misdirected as worm syrup on pancakes. This and many other unusual items are on exhibit in the NC decorative arts section of [...]

Like pancakes and worm syrup

  Oh, you wanted *warm* syrup. My bad!  I had a great time at the Museum of History in Raleigh yesterday mostly because they let me take all the pictures I wanted to. We laughed and joked with other visitors in the museum. The guards were laughing, too. I love the drug store items the [...]