It’s hard to beat a week like last week as far as excitement and how much work I was able to get done. Although much of this week has been recuperating after wearing my body out, it has also been one that I have tried to keep the momentum going.
The end of my Artist Residency was filled sculpting one more sculpture entitled Blessings. I like this title because it can be interpreted in different ways depending on the person or the time of your life. These hands could be either the giver of blessings or the receiver.
On Saturday I gave a public demonstration about the Anatomy of facial expression. It went really well. We first went over basic proportions of the head. then we talked about how muscles work and how skin reacts to muscle contraction. After that we talked specifically about the muscles off expression and which ones are being activated in different facial expressions. Here are some pictures taken from Kara Hidalgo at the Idaho Art Lab during the presentation.
The rest of the week I have been getting back into the swing of teaching while getting ready for a High School art Show I am putting on next week and getting ready to film an instructional sculpture video. I have many of these videos planned. This one will give artists a foundation of sculpting skills and proportions of the head. It will walk you through the steps of making a portrait sculpture from start to finish. It will be very thorough and in my opinion will be filling a need for high quality and information packed sculpture videos. As Daniel Hidalgo said about my public demonstrations recently, “It is like information you would receive in a whole entire college course packed into a few hours.” I will be making my sculpture videos just as informative and well taught.
The videos I plan on making in the near future are:
Sculpting the Human Head Foundational Course
Sculpting an upper body Écorché
Sculpting Facial Expressions
Sculpting Ethnic Differences
Sculpting a likeness of your model
Sculpting Age & Gender
Sculpting Fabric
Sculpting Hands and Feet
Relief Sculpting
There are others that I am planning that have more to do with the whole figure but I’m not exactly sure how I am going to break them up yet. What are some instructional sculpture videos you might like to see?
Keeping Momentum | Blog Post 3/12/15