Plaster carving - Maya

Wow! It was again something really new for me. I felt lost at the beginning, but afterward I started to have fun. I have made up the figure at first, and then I started to drawn a female body, who is sitting on the floor quasi on her legs, and after I tried to create an abstract form from this posture which is gently curved.

I guess it was the easiest part of this story, and the difficulties just came right after the drawing.

I tried to sculpt my abstract figure from clay. At first I found it difficult, but later I started to warm up, and after a while I realised that I truly like to work with this oil based clay. Probably it sounds a bit silly, but my hands started to feel the material and the shape of the imagined body.

Nevertheless I'm definitely not a sculptor, I feel it was a good effort. I like its curves and proportions.

But the plaster carving ... Oh, my Gosh! It was really-really difficult for me. First of all, beacuse the original shape of my plaster-block wasn't resembling to my abstract figure. Neither a little bit. I was shocked. And the tools... Oh, my Gosh, who knows how to use that strange tools, how to carve with that?! But of course I tried to create something with my bizarre plaster-block and freaky tool.

And then I realised that it's impossible to carve the imagined figure, as I wanted, as I would have like to carve.

I had to adapt to the circumstances, especially that particular plaster-block size and shape, and I had to modify my original figure to another one, which I don't really like.

I feel dissatisfied, but I couldn't carve it more likely.

And this is the issue - my oil based clay and the plaster figures together: