I love what I do, I have the best job in the world. So I'm being proactive and taking a vacation from sculpting anything for at least a month. I have a single custom order to finish in the next few days and then I'm putting away the clay and focusing on drawing, painting, and art education for a full month. Once the month is over I'm going to work on figural non-cephalopod sculpture for another month.
Right now I have my Etsy shop fully stocked (in fact I still have about 50 pieces done that I need to list in the next week or so) so I don't need to make anything right now. A 2 month jewelry making vacation will help me be all refreshed and ready to focus on the holiday season. I've already started this by playing with my new heavy body acrylic paints and making this quick little 7"x5" painting on canvas board of a jellyfish swarm and it's
already up on Etsy in the brand new
Paintings and Prints section.
My current project of the last few days is to work on copying Bargue plates which is a traditional drawing exercise. If you want to learn more about Bargue plates I suggest reading
this great thread on ConceptArt.
I'm not doing these with quite as precise a method as described because
part of what I am doing is an exercise in learning to judge relative
distances without laying any measurement devise down directly on the
plate I'm copying from. If you are interested in downloading the plates
to work from go
here.
1 comment:
The jellyfish picture is very lovely. It is very delicate and I love how it glows.
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