hood

summary

sculpture type: portrait
style: realist
material: smooth grey clay
firing: bisque

time spent: 24 hours
location: art academy
model: fatima
tutelage: laura postle

artist's notes

My most challenging piece yet created from a live model wearing drapery. Understanding the undulations of the fabric is an altogether different challenge to creating facial features. Time ran out before I could fix the symmetry of the eyes.

pre-fired leather hard stage

bisque fired stage

Bisque fired bust sitting on a drying shelf in the kiln room