Knock knock. . .

Filling out a bit more. . .

I'm still not using any exact measurements at this point. I'm just trying to get the basic feel and proportion.

It's always interesting how soon the future "issues" in a piece start to rear their ugly heads. I can see that the shoulders and that lifted rear leg are going to take some thought. :^\

Anyone figure out the who, what, where, etc. yet? C'mon! It's no fun unless people play along! Humor me! I'm just sitting here, all by myself, in the middle of the night, listening to the dogs snore!

Guess who?

Wheeeee! Time lapse photography, the hard way!

More clay. . .

more. . .

Yadda yadda yadda. . .

More to come. . .

Back so soon?

Yes. . . I'm blogging again! Two more and I think I'll have beat my total number of posts for 2009! Yay me! Like I said, I have quite a few photos to get through before I'm showing where the horse currently is so. . .bear with me.

This is the revised armature and the first bits of clay.

More clay. . .

Aaaaaaaand more. . .

Anyone ready to start guessing? Hmmm? Anyone?

Have I mentioned. . .

. . .that I have a hard time finishing things I start? The wire critter in my last post did actually take some sort of shape before I set it aside but I'll save that for another time. Yes folks, I have difficulty completing projects that I start. I think that's because I don't HAVE to finish them and it's always more fun to start something new. This ongoing issue is one of my greatest failings.


*But* now I've taken on an exciting project that I knew from the beginning I would HAVE to finish! Nothing like a commission with deadlines to jumpstart my rarely used stick-to-itiveness. (yes, it's a real word) I know the details will become known over the next few days so, for now, I'm going to leave the who, what, when, and where up to your imagination. The why of it all though, I can tell you right now, it is my own personal quest to rediscover my sculpting mojo.


I HAD to share this photo of the armature because it was so darn funny. Armatures don't usually have much personality, but this one ended up just brimming with attitude. I had to make a few changes to it before I started sculpting and it was interesting to see how the small differences changed the original jauntiness. It's better that the attitude should be on the outside of the piece than on the inside anyhow. Ha!

I'll be doing a quick fire method of blogging here for a bit because I have a lot of in-progress photos to post before I'm caught up to "real time." Stay tuned!

This concludes my demonstration. . .

. . .of a creative block. Sorry folks, I know I have been less than entertaining for the past . . .oh. . .erm. . .how many months? If you think it was depressing waiting for me to post something new . . .you should have been here to witness my uninspiring self in person! YAWN! Our new sofa has a nice indentation in one cushion that perfectly matches my behind. Alas, even though my creative juices aren't exactly flowing freely yet, I have come to the point where I have to do *something* before I find myself slipping into a permanent catatonic state. So, I have directed my attention back to a project that I started a few months before the sculpting drought set in.



Ahem . . .inspiring, isn't it? I can't imagine what's been keeping me away from it all this time! Seriously, isn't it fantastic? *insert sound of my head banging against the desk repeatedly. . .*

One man's trash. . .

O.K. I've been away from blogging for awhile. . .sorry about that folks! I've also been away from anything resembling actual WORK for awhile too so my most recent activity has been cleaning. . .and cleaning in my studio. Mind you, my "studio" is a 10 x 10 foot room that doubles as the dumping ground of choice for various things that have no official home. Yeah, I work in the JUNK ROOM, there, I said it! Don't laugh. . .you have one in your home too, you're not fooling anybody!

Anyhow, I need to clear some space in here and get back to sculpting. This is NOT an easy task because;

1. The entire main floor of our house is about 750 sq. feet.

2. Jim and I are both total pack rats

3. There are frequent differences of opinion as to what is valuable and what is not.

For example, the most recent addition to my space. :^\ Yeah, I've been known to go and pluck various treasures from the neighbor's trash after dark. Something which, BTW, Jim has voiced disapproval of in the past. Ironic, considering his recent acquisition of this ENORMOUS four foot tall stuffed Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, wouldn't you say? "Why would they just throw something like this out? I couldn't just leave it there" He said, with a smirk on his face. Now, this gaudy (and somewhat smelly) item was dragged in on a Saturday morning as a joke, and indeed it was funny. But then Kermit, our French Bulldog, instantly developed an amusing love/hate relationship with it and Rudolph became a long-term guest in our home. *sigh*

This really doesn't have anything to do with sculpting. . .other than the fact that it's incredibly distracting and uninspiring and it's stinking up the place. . .I didn't have much else to talk about and I decided to write a small homage to it before I threw it down the basement steps. I wonder what the neighbors will think when they see it show up in *our* garbage pile in 10 or 15 years?

Trapped!!!

Well, o.k. so I'm not really "trapped" per say. . . but I feel like it! It's a sad thing when winter is *just* beginning and you're already feeling claustrophobic about being stuck inside while Jack Frost plays fast and loose with the snowflakes! I have things to do and places to go, but here I sit because I need to get my brakes fixed and I have to wait until Tuesday for my turn at the repair shop. I was looking for ways to keep myself amused during the most recent mini-snowstorm (which kept me from absconding with hubby's car and making a late night shipping run to the 24 hour post office at the airport) so I made some good progress on the Strawberry Jam colt and listed something to Ebay. I haven't listed anything in years, but I've got this odd item that I've been meaning to sell and Ebay was the best place I could think of to put it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290280895695&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

Pretty neat huh? I had planned on framing it in a shadowbox with a mat. . . but I'm running out of wall space in my little house. :^)

I'll have photos here soon of the Strawberry Jam remakes. Once I looked at the photos from the last post again, I realized how over in the knees the NSH filly was! EEEK! Too much time spent trying to re-do the pastern angles without the padded shoes and not enough attention to what I was doing to the rest of her legs in the process! AAAHHH! hahahahahahaha!