Hello, is there anyone out there? I don't blame you if you've all gone off to do something more interesting. I've been just rubbish lately!
I seem to have lost the ability to string a sentence together. So instead I'm just going to post a few photos of my latest sculpture. As I mentioned in my last post, I had no idea what I was going to produce but just that I needed to get started, feel the clay in my hands and stop being so precious about the whole process.
The point about clay is that it can always be changed, broken down, remade, no sweat. She started off a bit more abstract than this...okay, I didn't take the time to get her proportions right and so I had to go back & alter them at a later date. This involved chopping her head off at one point (and putting her back together when she fell in half - but that's another story!)
For me it's a really healthy process to hack my sculptures about. There is always a point when I've worked into the detail a bit and don't want to admit that the underlying form isn't quite right. So I ignore it, thinking that I can live with it not being just so - only to find that the more I try to hide from the problem, the more it stares me in the face. Hm, a bit like life then.
I'm doing a day's life drawing on Monday - really looking forward to making a mess and just going for it. I'll also be picking up a bag of clay so that I can make a start on Elvis. I'll keep posting the photos even if I can't write.
Lx
