Still Keeping Busy

More or less completed the main sculpt on the dryad, now the thing just needs to dry before it becomes a mass of mold... Hoping for some sunny days. Final surface treatment plan is little bit complicated and experimental, but needs to dry first.  Will be done after all by my big Sept solo show at the Barron Art Center in Woodbridge, barring disaster.

Plodding along on my piece for Sept's #occupycommonground at St Paul the Apostle in NYC. It's going to get there too...

Keeping Busy

Been busy with the papier mache head, made quite a bit of minimally documented progress.

Basic form all blocked in.

At this point I've converged on a uniform 100%  used printer paper, which has  nice purplish tint from papers dating from era where I religiously used a fountain pen with purple ink.   About here I've pretty much done all the coarse scale work.

Previous batches I'd just boiled and mixed with mixing machine head on a drill, as I'm getting started on the detail work I put the final (hopefully) batch through food processor, to get a more uniform fine pulp.

After applying I've been burnishing the surface with a spoon mostly, and been getting close to the final surface I'm hoping for...

I can't remember the last time I actually worked on a 2D piece in my studio, but here's the proof.
It's happening. Cartoon in progress for 'The Transformation of Daphne', Dorothy Day and William Morris looking on.

Dryad: First Pulp

First pulp applied over the papered skeleton. I don't know how hard it's going to be to get the level of finish I'm seeing in my head, but I have to say in terms of building up coarse form quickly I could get into this. It's certainly quicker than cutting it out of a tree. Funny how some of the paper that went into the pulp dissolved completely and others are still there jutting out awkwardly.

Dryad Day 2,3

So tinkering along with this project. Have a vague intention to do the underbody in paper and paste, modeling in puree and then to paper a smooth skin over it all. We'll see how that goes. Coat 1 is down at any rate. I'm going to need more paper...

Day 2, under body assembled (I have no idea what I'm doing.

Day 3 a first coat of paper (I still have no idea what I'm doing).

Day 1, Day Goodness Knows

Two works in progress, one just started, one who knows how many years in the making, with its origin near 7 years ago.

Temporarily untitled large scale dryad, about 2 hours in.

Reliquary for a found object, not quite nearing completion, but sort of getting toward it.

Lake George II

Now alas moved on from the Openings artist residency at Lake George to BOSC conference in Boston. But some pictures of what I got done while there. made some good progress on The Magic Mirror, for #occupycommonground showing in Sept at the church of St Paul the Apostle in NYC.

The real product.

Lake George

Setting up shop on day one.

I'm up at Lake George for the Openings Collective's Artist Residency. Has been a great opportunity to hang out with some amazing fellow artists and get some carving done.

Trees.

Day one's progress.