Sculpture
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to begin learning sculpture at Disney from some amazingly talented artists, including Tony Cipriano and Sandra Groeneveld, who had more patience with a newbie than I deserved. (Couldn't locate a site specifically for Tony, but a web search with his name shows that his sculptures are sold all over the world.)
Sculpting is very therapeutic, and I should be doing a lot more of it for that reason...
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This is my first full sculpture. I made this piece in a sculpture workshop at Walt Disney Feature Animation. It is super-sculpey over an aluminum armature, and was painted brown to (roughly) resemble bronze. It was also sprayed with polyurethane. |
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This piece was also made in a sculpture workshop at Walt Disney Feature Animation. It is red plasticine, and was capturing the pose of the model with a rope over his right shoulder tied to a heavy load. |
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This piece is my first completely from scratch. It was inspired by an Andrew Loomis figure sketch, which I adapted into this pose. It is intended as a study, and I plan to continue with this piece. Maybe two or three more studies to clarify certain details, and then a finished piece of perhaps 1/4 to 1/3 scale. This study is super-sculpey over an aluminum armature, and was painted with red primer as a test. The plan is to have the finished piece bronzed. |
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This is my first exaggerated hero sculpture. There are clearly some issues, but overall it was an interesting learning experience (especially pushing pose and musculature). It is super-sculpey over an aluminum armature. |
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This is my first sculpture with an externally supported armature. It is a figure study and pretty much a classical pose, but the point was to experiment with the external support. I did like the additional stability it provided, but the external support seemed to "get in my way" more than I would have guessed it to. It is super-sculpey over an aluminum armature. |