BABAJI IN PROGRESS
To see photos of the finished Babaji clay click here!
Here he is! All ready to get started! This armature is wearing the remains of
my sculpture Persia. . .(which was previously War Chant, and before that Dozen Roses, but was originally assembled for Showman. There's a lesson to be learned from this later on. . .) Got her standing back up, leg
wires lengthened, LONG way to go and a short time to do
it in. It's late May at this point, and I'm trying to get this guy done for Breyerfest at the end of July!
Ah. . .they always look pretty decent at this stage. . .no measurements, just eyeing things up and slapping the clay on here and there (a lot of artists make the mistake of thinking, "well, it looks pretty good this way so I don't think I'll need to do any measuring, I'll just go with it as it is. . ." This is an excellent shortcut to having serious regrets later on when it's out there in a permanent medium for everyone to see.)
Shortly after I took this photo, I had the brilliant idea to shorten his neck and move his head (which I thought I had a pretty good start on) and the armature wire snapped inside his throat. *gasp* One step forward. . .15 steps backwards. . .Had to strip off all the clay on his head and neck and figure out some clumsy but useable way to reattach the wire so I could keep going. That can be a big problem with reusing armatures. . .it's hard to remember from piece to piece just how many times each wire has been bent back and forth!
O.K. his head is reattached. . .It's not looking the greatest anymore but. . .eh, what can you do? Didn't take photos of detached head. . .too traumatized at the time, sorry. Busy using the notched edge tool to do some serious shaping overall.
Large pins not for unorthodox accupuncture sculpting technique. . .they're marking the center of the horse and helping me make both sides of his head level with each other. . .for some reason, his head is all crooked. . .I can't imagine why . . .*ahem*
O.K. here he is with his basic shape and attitude intact. Also noteworthy is the overblown paperclip wire scaffolding I added for his ears. . .probably a bit excessive, but I knew his ears were going to involve more attention than most and I wanted to be sure he had a firm support system under there as I worked! (Thank goodness I did this BTW as those ears were HARD! I sculpted them and REsculpted them so many times I thought I was going to lose my mind!)
I'm sorry that I didn't continue to take pics as he got closer to being finished but I was so pressed for time that I had to just put my nose to the grindstone and forget about documentation! I spent SO much time doing research that I almost ran out of time to sculpt this boy! Oops!
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