Above are some of my bas-relief sculptures – each sculpture is only about 2 inches thick. I can imagine that most two dimensional artists from amateur to professional would probably never think of grabbing a hammer and chisel and start beating the snot out of a piece of sandstone or marble. Nor would they dream […]
I sculpted this piece many years ago and have always wanted to make a mold of it so that I could cast and reproduce it as an affordable production piece. This will be toughest mold I have ever made. I am just now coating the original in multiple (about 8-10) coats of latex rubber. The […]
For many hundreds of years people all over the world have been using a cooking vessel that since 1710 we call a Dutch Oven. It is simply a cast iron pot with a tightly fitting lid . With this versatile cooking utensil a cook can bake, boil, stew, fry or roast. Now imagine how much […]
“Cognition” is best defined as, “a knowing” and “recognize” is, “to know again”. Learning to be an artist is all about learning to see or re-cognize what you “know ” about the subject you are re-presenting. Let’s say you are doing a portrait and your subject is wearing a tee shirt. Let’s put aside the […]
Does it help an artist to know that one of the main muscles in the neck is called the sterno-cleido-mastoideus? Probably not. But it is critical for an artist to know how this muscle affects the surface and shapes the neck. These long Latin-sounding muscle names are merely describing its shape, size and/or location. For example, “sterno-cleido-mastoideus” is really just […]