Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 33 “bringing home the bacon”
adding details
Detail to pant legs- water splashing off as he walks through the water.
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 32 “bringing home the bacon”
Creating tension
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 30 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 29 “bringing home the bacon”
Right hoof
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 28.5 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 28 “bringing home the bacon”
Today’s ingredients
Hay, string and wire-cloth to be mixed with plaster.
The left leg Preplaster
Hoof vibrations
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 27.5 “bringing home the bacon”
The first day of plaster
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 27 “bringing home the bacon”
Frint side of Left leg
Right leg
Left leg side view
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 26 “bringing home the bacon”
Building the ears and adding baling wire before the plaster.
Looking nose to nose
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 25.5 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 25 “bringing home the bacon”
the pig face
view of facing the nose
Side view
covering the bridge of the nose and forehead
Back of the head
The mouth
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 24 “bringing home the bacon”
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Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 23 “bringing home the bacon”
The man’s hands and the pigs belly.
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 22 “bringing home the bacon”
progress-
Hands and hoofs
hands
Hoofs
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 21 “bringing home the bacon”
Today’s progress-
Feet and legs
International WaterMedia Exhibition - Invited
One of the most coveted words an artist can hear or receive in an email is “invited”
I am so pleased and grateful to have a piece selected. 🙏
Seven cyclist
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 20 “bringing home the bacon”
What a relief, I was able to get the piece in my car and to the sheet metal fabricators. .
The sheet Metal fabricators did a beautiful job leveling the steel base.
With this cold weather it is nice to get out of the garage and working inside my studio.
I will take down all the drawings, I want them to be very pressed for the exhibit and I need a clean wall to use as a backdrop as I work on the next stage of the sculpture . In order to press them I bought two pieces of sheet rock to press them under. I also stack my bronze hats on them for extra weight.
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 19 “bringing home the bacon”
I unclamped the armature from the dolly to load it into my car and........... Houston, we have a problem! The base has warped from the heat of weld on the feet. The base is a basic potato chip. Fixing this is beyond my welding capabilities. This is a job for Blumenthal Sheet Metal. I think if they can weld basically a 2” wide frame around the edge, that would level the edge. It would still bubble in the middle, but that will not matter. I just need an edge that rests on the floor.
I will find out interesting he morning. 🤞
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 18 “bringing home the bacon”
I added the man’s thrown back chin, a suggestion of his head shape, and reinforced his wrist and hands. I also added the pig’s tail, reinforced his hoofs, and a added a suggestion of some very big ears.
from the front
From slight left
Left side
The back side
The right side.