Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 20 “bringing home the bacon”

January 27, 2019 Cindee Klement

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”

January 23, 2019 Cindee Klement

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”

January 21, 2019 Cindee Klement

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

Left side

The back side

As I near the end of working on the armature I am starting to think seriously about the texture of the finish.

I walked around my welding studio and just looked at textures. Here are a few that stood out.

Bin of scrap metal

Rusted wire cloth

Floor waxing pads

Broombristles

Cracked mud and grass

Root

Nylon bag strings

stump

Whisk broom

cracked saddle straps

Rope

Feathers

Straws

Legs of “Sonata in 4D”

Hands, hands, hands= frustration

I thought I had a really good plan of attack: draw out a hand the size I want, measure how big each bone should be, cut the bones, and tack them together. Once they are tacked together, bend them into position. This is where the frustration began. Some of the tacks would either not bend or some would break, and I would then have to reweld them. I did finally get them all together. I was mentally exhausted, so I decided to attach them permanently to the arms tomorrow when I am more refreshed.
I did just tack them just to see how they look.

I hope I like them tomorrow.

FYI - I put really big welds on the knuckles because I like knarly fingers with big knuckles. If you deal with livestock, you probably have some pretty banged up fingers. :)

Digits barely tacked together

Left hand gripping Mr. Pig

Right hand gripping Mr. Pig

Both hands

The grip

I am getting close to completing the armature.

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