Saturday, December 14, 2019

Styraccosaurus Bust

Styraccosaurus Head sculpted in Chavant medium with inadequate reference.
My first attempt at surface texture. Much to learn yet!









Friday, December 13, 2019

Halloween Skull Freak 2019!

My crazy skull mask. It was lots of frickin work! It turned out nothing like my original intention. I learned a tonne and feel frustrated that I don't get to do things like that every day.

Resin cast skull, burlap, panty hose to black out the eyes and nose, acrylic teeth for dentures, pig ribs, rusty nails dug up from my garden and turkey feet!
Who wouldn't want all that on their face?
The mask is surprisingly comfortable to wear.

For the arms I painted Burma Rubber co latex onto opera gloves and coloured with brown.

Shoulder armor made from leather with fake fur.

I think I did a pretty crappy job sculpting the skull, but once all the crap was glued on, it distracted from the inaccuracies.


















Life Drawing in my own town!

Finally!

Life Drawing in Vancouver

I did some life drawing at Basic Inquiry in Vancouver a few months back. I only had an H pencil and my 11"x14" sketchbook with me.  Bad photos taken in a dark room. Oh well if I don't get this done tonight I'll probably never do it.
Here's a few:




 

Superb Fairy Wren

8"x 8" on that lovely Arches cotton paper. I must get better at taking photos of my stuff!