Sculpting the clay head was more fun than I had imagined. My first (real) and last clay experiences lay way back in kindergarden and primary school days and since then I never got the chance to do it again, so I wasn't too excited.My biggest problem was to create a sculpture that is really 3-D and not just a front with a big nose coming out of it... Once the sculpture had a bigger back of the head it looked way more realistic.
I'm not sure whether touching Marcel's face was a big help to start with, in the end I felt, I couldn't really give the sculpture Marcel's features. Nevertheless I like the outcome of it. Before I put the hair on, it looked a lot like a beautiful African woman from the front and rather like Marcel from the profile. Weird, but nice.
Project 2
Plastercarving is a mess.
I like the assignment of abstracting a human figure - that is, even if I tried to create a naturalistic human figure it would end up kinda abstracted... Unfornately when I was in midst of the process one of the legs of the sculpture broke off so by now my sculpture is far from its initial sketch or the clay model.
So what have I learned about the material plaster?
- it's messy
- it's fragile
- and before long half of it is already carved away and you wonder why you didn't plan it any better
... as you can tell I preferred the first project. Anyway, I've continued the carving at home and so I've turned it into something completely different (an arm turned into a head and a leg into an arm) and now I'm okay with it.
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