Sorry that I’ve not been very present recently. I had a patch while I didn’t really feel like making anything and still haven’t got the mojo for military modelling. It will come back. Meanwhile I’ve been sculpting. I made a couple of hares in DAS clay for my wife. I made an armature for the smaller one in aluminium mesh and she said that she had hoped that he would be a bit bigger, so I ended up doing two! I then painted them with raw umber and dry-brushed with copper and gold to give a bronze finish.
I’m now in the process of making an owl, sculpting him the other way by carving. I’ve got as far as band-sawing one profile and marked the second. Then I’ll start taking the corners off. As it’s so large it has to be done slowly! It’s a good job that my work has a big bandsaw.
So my wife is finally getting the sculptures that she’s wanted for a few years!
I’m now in the process of making an owl, sculpting him the other way by carving. I’ve got as far as band-sawing one profile and marked the second. Then I’ll start taking the corners off. As it’s so large it has to be done slowly! It’s a good job that my work has a big bandsaw.
So my wife is finally getting the sculptures that she’s wanted for a few years!
