Amazing Sculpture You Can Do
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Very, very weak anatomy knowledge from the author. His sculptures are kind of begginer's (and not a specially talented one).
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Amazing Sculpture You Can Do - E. J. Gold
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Dedication
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DEDICATED TO
RENZO FENCI
RUSSEL CANGIALOSI
AND
BOB GLOVER
Welcome to my beginning sculpture class. I will share with you the results of over 60 years of sculpture experience and many secrets learned at Otis Art Institute under the tutelage of master sculptors Renzo Fenci, Russell Cangialosi and Bob Glover, to whom I dedicate this book.
Not all sculpture is done with clay. You can sculpt out of a variety of materials. But for our learning purposes, clay is best.
For basic sculpture classes, we will be using Roma Plastilina grey-green #2. #6 is strictly for industrial design. It is very hard and stiff. #1 is too soft, and will not hold a good shape.
Roma Plastilina comes from Sculpture House. It’s merely river clay probably from a tertiary channel. It comes in 2lb. blocks. It is not water based so it doesn’t ever dry out as does ceramic clay. It will outlast you. It is made with mineral oil. The kind you use in the kitchen to clean butcher blocks, etc. It is wrapped in waxed paper. This is a 2lb. block of Roma Plastilina. This is how it comes to you. Be sure to unwrap it before use.
When I say sculpting clay, I only ever mean one kind of clay, Roma Plastilina #2 grey-green. When I say sculpture tool, I only mean one kind, The Tool, the 403A from Sculpture House.
Sculpture has nothing to do with the instruments or tools. Your best tool/instrument is inside your brain case. It’s where you get inspiration, ideas and observation. Observation is the best tool. It will tell you if your sculpture is going well.
Sculpture is the backbone of drawing. Drawing is the backbone of painting. Fundamentals really count in art, and a good foundational beginning is in the realm of working in-the-round
with 3-D forms.
Sculpture differs from drawing and painting in that you can’t depend on line to help you. Sculpture is three dimensional. It has a front, back, side and bottom. It has heighth, width, depth and mass.
A three dimensional form must be viewed as a mass or as a cluster of interpenetrating masses.
The block of clay comes to you as a single mass. A six sided polygon with surfaces, angles and interior mass.
If you make sculpture by establishing and following an outline you will immediately proceed into error. Most beginning sculptors concentrate on surface. The surface is the last thing we deal with. In the casting process you lose most of the surface, so don’t obsess over the surface of your sculpture, concentrate on establishing the basic masses and on simplifying the form. We will examine both those ideas in depth as we go.
One type of homemade armature is made of black iron. The other type of homemade armature is made of galvanized iron. They are almost exactly alike. The black iron is cheaper. Use of PVC or ABS