No really, Chris, I think I've always liked smooth, though ,now i do emphasize it on hair for compositional reasons. Clay modeling gives one a lot of choices for surface textures as you start clay sketching. I have carved marble and granite. Granite is not for me. Marble is friendlier , but clay is best for me, specially now that we have machines that can enlarge and make exact replicas of my work better than by the old pantograph methods i use to do, and still do on small work. I'll try to send you a photo of my first marble carving. I called it "One World" made around 1949. in honor of the United Nations formation, I remember Tom Dewey's mention of the phase "one world"
mando [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of One World 1950 20_marble jp] On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Chris Miller wrote: > I'm speculating that Mando's concern for facture is descended from > the > enthusiasm for direct carving that grabbed American sculptors in > the first > half of the last century, and was celebrate by Kineton Parkes in > his 1931 > book, "The Art of Carved Sculpture". > > A few years ago, I blogged about it here: > > > http://mountshang.blogspot.com/2006/08/kineston-parkes-and-british- > sculpture. > html > > It's not an enthusiasm that has ever grabbed me, since carving, > especially > stone carving, is such a difficult facture, and I have problems > enough just > with design. > > BTW -- it was so difficult for the sculptors who pursued it, that > the usual > solution, for good sculptors, was to carve pieces that were either > flat or > simple. While the solution for bad sculptors, was to sacrifice > everything to a > dazzling display of virtuosity (a fault that I would also find with > certain > Classical musicians) > > As the fashion for cemetery sculpture declined over the last > century, the > number of master carvers has bottomed out -- but there's a few - > like this > fellow from Brazil: > > http://www.cicerodavila.com/ > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Are you a Shear Genius? Top Beauty Schools. Click Now! > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/ > BLSrjnxaUYp0epJkMWqLxnmPzFUbKC > eLZwRJRwSwVTEAOol7Y5OeschEdpu/
