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My Red Headed Lady Sculptures
April 28th, 2012 | Posted in Ceramic | 
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My Red Headed Lady Sculptures
What a treat to get to venture into new territory by doing two sculptures, both with red hair! I thoroughly enjoyed displaying the beauty of this special hair color. Normally I tend to use dark brown to black hair color or sometimes blonde but never have I depicted a red head! I didn’t even know if I could do it justice but wanted to try. Below you’ll see pics of….. the first of two red head women sculptures.
My husband says he’d call this “strawberry blonde,” but to me she has a light, in some places creamy, red hair. I love this color when I see it on girls. Just the right shade and it really makes me happy because the color is so bright and cheery in yet soft at the same time. She’s entitled, “With Love,” and her dimensions are 17″ tall by 4 1/2″ wide.
Red headed woman sculpture with "Love" inscribed on base.
This is one of the “quick sculpts” that I made for my local show coming up here in my home town. Since I have other sculpts not completed and destined to go into bronze but not ready as yet, I wanted to have a few new things for the show.
First I made the pillar and had really no idea what I was going to do with it. Maybe I’d put a flower on top like I’ve done before with my “Hope Rose.” Ah, no, I decided to try a quick bust. Sort of looked funny at first because I gave her no arms, just a torso. But that didn’t have the right effect at all so arms and hands came along and then a dress trailing over the edge. Had to use up some of that vacant canvas (the rectangular pillar was empty).
Dress is trailing down the back of the rectangular pillar.
Have her hair trailing in the same directional flow as the dress. Was a lot of fun to add flowers and leaves to this pillar base. Now if I was a calligrapher (or could remember what I learned in high school art class about it), I would have surely benefited with even better lettering. But the writing of “Love” looks natural I suppose, ha, ha. In pottery class we used to have a joke that anything that wasn’t perfect was “handmade” and that somehow made it more valuable. A tricky way to get people to appreciate all the cracks and imperfections!
She has the slightest bit of a pooch in her stomach so maybe she’s pregnant “With Love.”
Holding her rose given "With Love."
Didn’t want her to look like a separate mass on top of a pillar so had to pick colors that would flow down the whole length of the piece. An even creamy taupe color is the base color for both the woman and the base. “Love” to me is a soft and sensitive emotion so tried to use the softest touch on her coloring- light eyes and hair and the dress color has shimmering mother of pearl over glaze.
Having two flowers, both different types, in the sculpt was kind of new for me too. An iris type flower (is that right you flower experts?) in her hair and then a rose in her hand. Decided on a bright shade of lemon yellow. Happy and cheery to go with her hair color. The rose is white with variegated salmon pink edges.
My mom, being a realist, thought that she was standing over a bridge. Well, that could be it, maybe she’s going to throw her rose into the water. We did that for my uncle’s funeral and might do that for my Grandma’s as well. But that’s sobering and this is supposed to be uplifting so I like to think of her receiving her rose flower “With Love” from her romantic guy.
Closeup to see her soft green eyes.
Lacy bodice has gold shimmers.
Stay tuned for update pics of “Memories” sculpture with red hair! Her hair is different than this sculpture. It’s a very rich red color.
Thanks for watching and comments are always welcomed.
~Tamara
9 Responses to “My Red Headed Lady Sculptures”
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Beautiful! Once again, you’ve outdone yourself, Ms. Bonêt!!! I would LOVE to see that sculpture resting on the countertop of my bathroom. Thank you for sharing.
You could’ve made her a high relief and then she’d be standing on a balcony listening to her lover serenading her.
Thoughts for the future, I guess. Love reading about your process! Keep up the good work!
I can’t think of anything better to say than WOW!!! You have been blessed with a wonderful God given talent. I would love to have this on my Facebook page. I’m always looking forward to seeing what is next.
That a great idea for another sculpture Lynda. I will likely do that one day. I could have her in a brick arched cove and looking down and having a flower box below her. Oh, I’m getting inspired already! But for this one, it could apply to. She could be looking at him below serenading her.
Thank you dear Luella (one day I will name a sculpture with your beautiful name). On my facebook public page I have pics posted of her. That’s where I post my sculpts and then occasionally on the private page. I’ll share the link on my private page just for you!
Beautiful! I love the different subtle colors you used too! Hey, I want to be on your facebook too. Be my friend ok? How do I get on your blog too? To read about your statue? thanks Tam, love, beth
If you want to “like” my public page at https://www.facebook.com/Tamara.Bonet.Sculpture then you’ll be subscribed to updates.
I’ll search your name on Facebook to be friends on my private page. Mostly I use my private page for friend related correspondence while my art is on the public page.
This is my blog right where you are at, so if you like to subscribe to it, above on the right column there is a link in gold that says “Subscribe to my blog” via RSS or Email. Love, Tamara
Tamara, I love the sculpture, she is beautiful. Great time given to detail, I noticed her little clavicle bone, I think that is what it is called. I also loved how you gradually got closer in the pics so we could see clearly all the detail. I noticed right away her little pooch, before I even saw your comment,I didn’t think pregnant, I thought, “Oh, good she is making this beauty realistic, with a little rise in her belly.” Beautiful
How exciting to get a post from you Anja! (Anja is my dear friend, my oldest friend in that I’ve had her as a friend since I was 6 months old.) Thank you Anja. Glad you like the naturalness of the belly. Pretty much that’s more of my style, to let bodies have pooches here and there as they do in real life.
Prettier that way I think.
Yes, that’s a clavicle bone. You remembered it well! Hard to remember all the parts of the body’s name but at least we know what they look like.
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