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Sculpting and mould making with paper clay. 2

If you have read part 1, which, as blogs go, is the post down below this one, you know how to sculpt the body of the all-purpose-sitting animal.  I refer you again to the photo at the top of the … Continue reading

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Talk to the hand

I finished the hand clutching the brick at the end of the week. The brick is an actual brick, the hand is Milliput. I thought the bricklayer was going to build the arch on Friday but he doesn’t want to … Continue reading

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art and that

I have finished carving the block of limestone.  I really enjoyed it. Here he is, sitting on a tin. What do you think? He is one of the flint knappers that lived here 2,000 years ago.  I keep turning up … Continue reading

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brick and stone

Some years ago a shopping channel was selling blocks of stone and the tools to sculpt them.  I bought a small flat block, much the size of a standard brick, and a cube of limestone and the instructions to turn … Continue reading

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Modelling dolls – all about bodies.

If you are going to model dolls sooner or later you have to get to grips with the human body, as it were. There is no question that the human body is the hardest thing to depict realistically in art.  … Continue reading

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