In my minds eye, I saw these fat little birds landing on a line held by two girls. I knew I had a fun idea to create from. I called them Potato Birds because of their shape and imagined all sorts of situations they might put themselves in. I created names for them male and...
There has been some concern as leaders suppress the reopening of economies. Some times their logic is hard to follow. Some of the leaders have low regard for what others esteem or maybe they just don’t grasp how things work together. Here is a secret: you need the whole pencil to get a pencil to...
In my search for rocks to sculpt I found some success with garden stones that are soft enough to carve and may have an interesting appearance. They’re no where near as pretty as the marble I’d like to carve, but they’ll do in a pinch. Not all of them though. My first one appeared to...
Sooner or later I will sculpt a realist stone figure. When I do, I’ll rightly claim to have never before sculpted one, not that I’ve never tried to shape stone. There was that time when I was ten or so when I took an old rock and used a hammer and nail to incise the...
Having not done sculpture before, I learn as I go. Here are the steps I took to create this 15″ oil based clay figure. To the wise: I have a well anchored figure here, but when I decided to add glitter I tipped it sideways otherwise unsupported. The leg broke and it’s perfectly rendered form...
