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Book Sponge

It’s been awhile since I posted anything on my blog.  Hi everyone :-) Today I share with you “Book Sponge” as my husband just named her.   This sculpt came about after having a close friend come over to work (staining my redwood benches/arbors) and brought her eight year old daughter (the last of her seven daughters!) with her.   Her Little Mo Mo, as she likes to call her, wanted to earn some money too as a model for me. 

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Garden Reverie Sculpture #11

The last step before molding is sculpting the base with flowers and note.  

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Garden Reverie Sculpture #10

Sculpting the seat cushion is next.  She’s almost finished!  (See finished clay pics and promotion and bronze photos

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Awards for Garden Reverie

Glad I entered some competitions this year!  Decided to see how my sculpture Garden Reverie would do in a few competitions.  If she was able to win something it would really help with promoting her.  Well, I was so excited to get a phone call from AWA (American Women Artists) that I had won Grand Prize in their online 2013 competition!

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Garden Reverie Sculpture #9

Sculpting flowers is something I really enjoy doing.  Adding one to my garden lady seemed like a great  thing to do.   (See finished clay pics and promotion and bronze photos)

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Garden Reverie Sculpture #8

Once again, refining her figure is what I’ll be showing today but this time for her legs.  Keeping in mind the shape of the bones, such as in the knee, is important.  There are many complex features to a knee.  Two large bones join there and then a knee cap and tendons, muscle and fat all play a part. 

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QCFA Blog Post #7 – Garden Reverie

Today I want to show how this arm and hand was more difficult to sculpt than the other hand.  Lining up her hand in the right position under her chin was part of the difficulty.

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“Garden Reverie” – Finished clay pics!

Garden Reverie’s work in progress blog posts are here.  (See Garden Reverie’s bronze photos) I’ll continue to add more steps showing her anatomy being refined on into molding, casting in bronze and patina.  

For now, I’m skipping ahead to the finished clay pics because I’m doing a pre-cast promotion (also available at my Napa gallery) for this sculpture.  She will be available in bronze by mid-April.

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 Garden Reverie Sculpture- #6 

The initial roughing in of the sculpture is finished.  Now on to refining the anatomy.From a distance her hands look as if they are finished and for a quick sketch type sculpture, they would be. I love a raw and unrefined sculpture with natural organic textures because it has energy to it; sometimes the artist’s tool or hand marks are seen.

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Garden Reverie Sculpture- #5

(See Garden Reverie’s finished clay pics and promotion and bronze photos)

The gallery that is representing me in Napa (Quent Cordair Fine Art) is sharing this work in progress on their QCFA blog as well. Here’s the next step, that of adding her dress and the general flow of the fabric. It’s amazing what a few directional brush strokes of clay can do with giving the illusion of a dress.

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