Category: Sculpture

In keeping with my current theme I started work on Summer. I'm going to work through pieces representing all the seasons - trying to improve my techniques with each one. Starting with Summer, I'm going to use TruForm Armatures instead of creating my own. One of the things I struggle with is proportions, and getting [...]

(Formerly known as Seated Beauty) After Mornings over Midgard, I wanted to return to the female form and instead of covering the figure with clothes, work on defining and refining shapes. I bought an Art Model book a number of years ago. It came with a CD of all the images. I figured it was [...]

It's fair season here in Utah. Last year I entered two of my works, The Fighter, and The Green Man. Both of those pieces won 1st place ribbons and The Green Man won Best of Show in Creative arts in both the county and state fair. This year, I decided to enter four of my [...]

(2-27-19) I entered this in our local Veterans Creative Arts competition and won first place in the sculpture category! After practicing on the large faces, I'm back to doing a smaller scale piece. I'm focusing this time on composition and overall movement in the piece. This one is Odin releasing one of his ravens, (Huginn), [...]

After completing The Price of Fame I was not happy with how I had sculpted her face.  I tried to get a look of shame and ended up with something more angry and out of proportion.  I clearly need more work on sculpting faces on a small scale.I decided to focus on doing larger faces [...]

Continuing on my theme of strong women, I decided to go in the opposite direction from The Fighter.  Social media and social media stardom comes at a cost to women and that cost is often in the form of sexual idealization.  This work is trying to capture that cost. Final was cast in Bondo and [...]