Review of Hyper Realistic Reconstructed Sculpture #6 Little One

Hello again,
Things are starting to return to normal after a very busy period. I still working on the posts for those projects and should be able to publish them soon. In the meantime,I thought this was a good opportunity to have a little review of "Little One" LO for short.

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I'm close to finishing this sculpture. I'm in the final stages and I'm anticipating it's completion next week and then onto mould making. Like the others before, this sculpture has been a continual exercise in experimentation in regards to surface treatment namely,skin texture.
I'm looking forward to casting her in silicone,it will be fun.
I will be back later this week. I wish you all a great week, take care. Cheers.

A New Gallery Coming

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Hi again, I just wanted to announce a new gallery will be published soon. The Gallery will contain images of the original Hyper Realistic Reconstructed clay models that have been shown since the blog's inception.  I thought it would be easier for new visitors plus regulars to see the models all on one page. It will show models in different stages plus some pictures that haven't been shown before.
I welcome any questions or feedback. Please let me know.
Have a great week. Cheers.

Skin Texture Hyper Realistic Sculpture #1 Homo Erectus

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I'm finally back again with a new post. This time it's about skin texture being applied to the figure.
Because of the activity in the studio recently,I've been working on my Homo Erectus sculpture sporadically.  I was able to finish roughing it out only over the past two weeks.

Recently, I've been  experimenting with applying skin texture to this sculpture. The challenge is what type of texture should this figure have? Homo Erectus according to researchers went extinct roughly 400,000 years ago so preserved remains which show skin texture does not exist.

I've looked at other artists who specifically attempted this subject. They range from an almost completely modern African body with a primitive skull inserted to a man ape. Now of course to be fair, no one knows with certainty Lake Turkana Boy's actual appearance. The skeletal remains only infer that his body functionally and proportionately are similar to a modern human. So the assumption is that this individual would  have a more human like appearance.

Although, I'm not making a sculpture  for a museum diorama, I still want it to look just like one.  As I mentioned before the goal is a contemporary art statement not a didactic model.

My main question is for this clay model: What type of skin texture should this figure have?  I'm making the assumption that his skin was different but not ape like.Why? Because we tend to forget that the other primates have evolved as well. To what degree,uncertain. Here I making another assumption that modern apes and their ancestors differ as well so to use a more ape like skin for this figure would assume that the apes have remained primitive and humans have not.  We'll see how this approach will work out.

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In the meantime,I took some recent black and white images. They give a better view of the modeling which at this stage still needs further refinement and skin texture applied.
This is a gradual process but I hope to finish this model soon. Crossed fingers.
I'll be posting next week. I hope all of you great weekend. Cheers.

Busy Busy Busy !

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As the title indicates,there hasn't been a lot of time to update the blog unfortunately. But at present,I'm working on three posts which all will be ready to publish soon. There will be post on applying skin texture to my Hyper Realistic Figure#1,one on different sculptural interpretations of the Crucifixion and another on anatomy.
Meanwhile,the studio continues to be a busy place with several moulding and casting projects,all sculpture to be completed over the coming week. I should have some pictures for those works as well.

Anatomy and the Figure

Many years ago as an art student, I purchased from a medical supply company a natural bone human skeleton plus a number of skulls and assorted other bones. At the time I felt that having such a collection would aid in having a better understanding of the human form.

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Although all the bones in this post are human nevertheless they share the same beautiful forms and contours with other vertebrate skeletons. I feel each one is like a perfect little sculpture all it's own. Bones like other natural forms have provided  inspiration to both twentieth and twenty first century artists especially sculptors.

I'll be back next week. I wish you all a great weekend. Cheers.