Progress continues on the Discovery Muse. This is a view of the foot from the end of the toes.
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| When I am finished carving the instep and shin of the foot a crane will lower it onto it's side for finishing. |
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| I slim down the left arm with an angle grinder. |
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| a view from above, I have made the cut on the right, a line in black crayon shows where I will make the next cut in order to slim the wrist. |
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| In addition to carving the wrist and arm, I also am refining the hand and fingers to make them more feminine. |
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| I have started to round the top line of the arm. |
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| The left arm comes into shape. |
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When I work on a large sculpture I often use photoshop to check accuracy of form. Each photo is cropped to the same size, put side by side and a grid overlaid. The photo above shows a mistake. I didn't get far enough back and so have a great deal of distortion in the face. This can be horrifying when working, you think you're doing fine then you take a photo and - Yikes!
Below is a photo in which I am far enough back - zoom about halfway out, fill the frame. She's close but there are a few corrections to make. |
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| I have been finishing up the face and hair... |
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| coming around the back of the head... |
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| and working into the night (photo Don Lawler) |
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| Dew on the seed head of a grass stem. The sun has dried one side. |
