Sculpting

  • What Big Eyes You Have

    The giant alien, with whom I used an exercise ball for the armature, is looking ready for the next step – troweling clay over his…

  • Panda 2.0

    Panda is on the wall, and I’m adding a fresh batch of clay. Happy with the new approach on the eyes, and the cleat system…

  • Cleats & Bolts

    Bolts with a large washer sandwich were added to the panda wall sculpture. A layer of concrete paper clay to strengthen and anchor the back…

  • Panda Surgery

    I started this Panda back in February and got as far as adding a paper mache skin over a cardboard armature. Then it came crashing…

  • Sprinkles at Art Group

    Painting sprinkles on Stanley’s doughnut at art group. Stanley enjoyed lunch and chatting with the girls at the art group.

  • Tripple Thick Glossy

    Sculpture of Stanley, the little blue bird, with his first coat of glossy varnish. This is my first time using DecoArt’s Tripple Thick Glaze varnish,…

  • Pink Frosted with Sprinkles

    Stanley told me he wanted to hold his favorite doughnut, pink frosted with rainbow sprinkles. It is coming right up, Sir! The first coat of…

  • Signature Plaque

    I wanted a unique way to sign the Stanley bird sculpture and decided to try a name plaque on the back of the chair. I…

  • Sponge Doughnut

    Sculpting Stanley’s doughnut using a round potter sponge as my armature. I cut a hole in the sponge and coated it with gesso, which did…

  • What is Lil Bird holding?

    Adding the layers of plaster to the Lil Bird, I used a Potter sponge to smooth the plaster. While waiting for the plaster to dry,…

  • Coming to Life

    Covering the giraffe head with paper strips took about five hours, but now I have a firm, hollow shape to begin my sculpture. It’s strong…

  • Paper Mache on Giant Giraffe Head

    I’m using torn strips of a paper bag with Tightbond lll wood glue for the paper mache on this giant giraffe head. I started with…

  • Back to the Giraffe

    I have found the courage to return to the giant giraffe head I started months ago. I enlarged this pattern by Joni Good at Ultimate…

  • Baby Bird Details

    It was difficult to sculpt smaller details with the concrete paper clay on the baby bird, so I tried adding epoxy clay to see if…

  • Sanding & Filling Second Alien

    Sanding and filling the surface of the second alien in preparation for paint. My first two coats are using a drywall joint compound with a…

  • Off the Ball

    With the second coat dry, it was time to deflate the exercise ball and see if the sculpture would hold shape. This was a very…