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From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continually turned ...

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So you all have these sticks

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First comes intention then comes the stick

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Place upside down in water so armature is ready for clay. Moist wood then meets moist clay - ideal situation!

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Place upside down in water so armature is ready for clay. Moist wood then meets moist clay - ideal situation!

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Image 2D photos and drawings started to take on 3D form. Think of it as a solid - add clay to form the inner head. 

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Image 2D photos and drawings started to take on 3D form. Think of it as a solid - add clay to form the inner head. 

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And here it is, keep referring back. The inside determines the surface.

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Tea break! Remember to keep the moisture in. Cover with bag and secure.

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Keep thinking brain form. Contour lines become clay form. Think 3D!

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Note to self - the finished object may be cast in an alternative material - horse hair anyone?

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Starting to see skull form.

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Rough form taking shape

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Drawing in 3d - Look, look, look for the underlying structure - just as drawing!

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At this stage starting to look head-like but as an abstracted form. All clay has been placed with purpose and will begin to take form.

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Working on the mask form. Don’t lose sight of the bigger picture. The mask form is part of the head form!

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Smoothing the mask - keep looking at source! then look again!

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Mask becomes head, with hair form added. Hair is volume and aids recognition of the subject. Keep thinking shape and forms and leave the eyelashes (details) for now.

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Observe skin of your subject - whoops 7 year old, has boringly unblemished skin - could have done with a face with more character lines!!!

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Beware the details, features can become characature of yourself!!

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Still avoiding the eyes but it needs to be done!

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Eyeballs are forms! eyelids are tubes

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Everything is a tool - even a post halloween pumpkin seed!

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Thankfully clay is both additive and reductive. If something goes awry, it  can be removed or resolved - simply by observing and amending!
Remember it's 3D, turn it around, see it from every side

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Taking shape, but needs more cheeks

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Remember clay is alive! If your looking at a gothic illustrative Halloween mask - you still have time to turn it into Santa Claus! Observation over Interpretation. It should look like your subject, or at least closely resemble them.

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Interesting documentary, enables you to see various ways sculptors approach the process .

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Rehydrating the clay

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Soak the armature upside down in hot water for half an hour or a week in cold.
The Moist wood will enable the clay to hold in place

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Pressed pieces of clay into each other to avoid air bubbles

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Reconstituted clay after leaving in the container for a week slightly soaked then left on the plaster cast slab for a week covered with a sheet of plastic as I ran out of time in class. Image After wedging it together

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Armature soaking

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Polynesia.

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Remove jewellery before recon !

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To be honest I don't think my wood was moist enough and the clay could possibly also be too wet . The clay seems to be sliding down the pole. I also think I will need quite alot more clay .

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Mood and energy levels change its important to me to take as many images as possible to look at the changes mood makes to skin tone ,texture and shape of the facial muscles or lack off in my case.

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Clay print

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Imagine these were just hitting about your grannys garden . 

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Week 3  It’s a surreal experience, when you really look at the human structure of the face. I’m finding this exploration new, challenging and exciting as it’s the first time I’ve never worked in this process. I have to look, observe, measure, continue to look, measure, feel my own face, study the bone structure, to enable me to form the clay which is at very early stages of the process.

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Week 3  It’s a surreal experience, when you really look at the human structure of the face. I’m finding this exploration new, challenging and exciting as it’s the first time I’ve never worked in this process. I have to look, observe, measure, continue to look, measure, feel my own face, study the bone structure, to enable me to form the clay which is at very early stages of the process.

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Skull
I don’t expect the form to look like me especially as this is a learning process, a journey of research and making.
When working on the sculpture I wonder where my DNA would lead me to, who my ancestors may have been, how many countries to I belong too.  North Africa, Scotland, Spain, Ireland ? We all have a story . If only our heads could project our past generations.
I listen to music or artist biographies when working on the clay, it takes me out of my own headspace , into another dimension enabling me to concentrate.
The truth is, after a year of lockdown, studio time becomes precious as who knows if we will go into another lock down in winter.

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Week 3
Process

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Week3
Process stages

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Process
Gave myself a Roman nose, got a bit Carried away.

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Process
Gave it a spray with water before wrapping her up for a sleep for two weeks.

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Moved spaces to create head space, as I felt a little cramped where I was situated, great if you like a cosy space I’m  not used to working in such a confined area.

It’s all gone Pete Tong
Today I was all over the place, started late, so I’m not sure who this is, maybe a face from a past life. Alter ego.
Maybe an ancestor trying to touch base.

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We were passing through Edinburgh, I thought I’d pop in and see some good Oldy worldy sculptures.
Honestly, I’t will always fascinate me, that human hands have carved these forms from various stones. To think the crafts people and the subjects have long gone, yet we are still left with the shadows.
It was actually great seeing the sculptures in 3D, as I could really look at each side, top and bottom. To be honest I’d never really looked at portrait sculptures as intensely until this project, I now look at them in a different  light as I have a deep appreciation for the the crafts person, the hands behind the head.
It’s even more interesting seeing what everyone is creating in CAP studio.

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Evolving into humans National Galleries 

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Evolving into humans National Galleries 