Sculpting Journey
My Sculpting Journey Begins With an Owl.
I'm on a hand building with clay course and today was the first chance to start creating our ideas. I decided to go with the Little Owl since I’d drawn her and she’d been kind enough to impart her wisdom on me to share.
It was suggested that I make a small one first to get my head around the shape – it ended up a bit bigger than I had thought, and was solid, carved out of a cube of clay.
I did feel a lot of trepidation – could I do it? What if I was rubbish? This is what I want to be doing, so what if I’m no good at it?
I told myself that I can’t learn if I don’t do. I have to start somewhere! The Artist’s Way advice came flooding back to me and I took that tool and lump of clay and just went for it.
I hope I’ve managed to capture some of her, I don’t want them to be too literal, but I want to get across their personality and some of the encounter we shared somehow.
Serssion 2 - A Ceramic Hare Sculpture
I’d left the owl uncovered after last week, because it was so wet despite only having loosely covered it the week before. Well, it had dried pretty hard this week! oops! Well, good job I’d pretty much finished what I was going to do with her last week. We removed the prop which had been holding her up, and she was fine, thankfully!
I’d been doing some sketches in the week for other sculpts I wanted to try out, and asked Brendan about how best to go about doing one or two I couldn’t figure out. He suggested that I try creating a test wall hanging of the twisty, leapy hare sketch, so that’s what I did.
