how the mask is progressing

just added the brow today. looking good so far. almost don't want to paint it once i add the cheek jowly bit. also real cedar smells lovely!
enjoy my freaky quiet mask update.

princess mononoke mask

it's only a low quality vid of how this is coming along.
i likes it so far.

lots more to do.

more little doodles

just a few more doodles.
the first one is a potential sculpture.
the second and third are what seems to be a story growing in my head somewhere.

more soon.

the wild hunt

today i have been doodling.
working towards a piece on a round slab of sandstone i found.
i decided on the wild hunt and wanted to do something simple and cartoony.
from wikipedia-

The Wild Hunt is an ancient folk myth prevalent across Northern, Western and Central Europe.[1] The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it.

and i decided on the herne the hunter deer-headed look.

so i did the doodle then the stencil to lay down on the stone so i can work to the pattern easily.
the main figure will be raised up from the stone and the dark figures will be raised too but only have minor detail on them.the background will be dropped back into the slab.
i was kind of thinking how the high-crosses were done when i was doodling so that is why it is so simple. also, i'm thinking of working at speed so simplicity is a necessity.
after all that i played with the hunters left from cutting the stencil a bit and the last pic happened.

more soon.

a walk with the dog

a winters day walk can get rather chilly.
good for us we have man's best friend.


i'll be making this a bit bigger soon.
i love the tail changing into the scarf.
we shall see where this goes.

more soon.

stuff i made in the last while, ongoing.

i have been working on the horse sculpture for a few days now. took a break from stone carving and made the head in the top pic.she's not totally finished but i like the look of her. there is a lock of hair falling down over her nose the idea for which came from zee's hair. for some reason the face took on a malaysian or mayan look as i worked it, i put this down to stuff milling around my head from our visit to belize.that's what happens with direct sculpture, you just see where the medium you use leads you from your original idea and how much of the idea stays defined.
i have a few more things to put up but i am waiting until i give them to friends as pressies.
more at some other time.

sketches i made today

i'm making up a few figure sculptures at the mo. the top guy is called "out for a walk". he is just about to walk off of a height which should work better when he's given an appropriate base. he's meant to be coming out of a bushy area. this is only a sketch so far.

the second guy is a re-edit of a scuplture i made ages ago called the commuter. which got destroyed so now i have to make a new one. he's coming along though.

the third one is just a very low relief that i'm tryingto get a process right on. i'm trying for a repeating pattern. this is inspired by ivan mestrovich who did some pretty awesome sculptures in his time. he did some cool relief work that had repeating patterns going far back into the background but they were only done in very low relief. i'll have to keep practicing.

more another day!

here's the new one

From DEE AND ZEE research for the future

From DEE AND ZEE research for the future

From DEE AND ZEE research for the future

From DEE AND ZEE research for the future

From DEE AND ZEE research for the future

this guy is a kind of celtic style monolith but a figure too.
i drew the doodle to see if i liked the idea and it looked good to me.
it kind of draws on the previous bust i made for the simple form with abstract detail.
once i made the form up he ended up looking somewhat like a chinese or japanese figure that my friend has a set of three of. it was entirely sub-conscious although i do like how he looks like an aging wiseman. i like the monumental aspect of him too, he'd be great as a huge rock out in the middle of a field!
i'm digging the simple form with simple design worked into it to delineate what the form is.
i think maybe i put too much on this guy but i like the look of him nonetheless. something to think on for the next one.