# 24

So working some more on that sculpture, playing with paints (acrylics & pastels) to achieve a more metallic look.

Some photos in different angles:

# 23

I gave her some paint to get a more human look. She now reminds me of a figurehead on an old ship lol! And then she wears one of my hat-creations (WIP) to make her more lady-like :-)

only 6 faces left! :D

I really enjoy the 29 Faces challenge, thank you Ayala, for this amazing challenge!!!

# 21

I worked on the clay sculpture from yesterday. I gave her some hair and worked on some facial features.

Below I did some photo editing, helping exaggerating the contours:

See you tomorrow! :-)

28 and 29 of 29 faces

The last two faces for the 29 Faces challenge with Ayala Art, those of you bloggers who also are on the Facebook page 29 faces already know these last few days' faces.

Face 28: chalkhead 

On the facebook page one of the participants had made two faces of school-chalk. I thought it was so cool and as I love sculpting I simply had to try it! I already started a new one, will post it some other day. This head is made from my daughters street-drawing-chalk. It is very soft and really difficult to work with. I used a small brush to remove the dust, but the brush could take half the nose, if I wasn't careful. He is not really finished, but I'm not sure if I will do any more about him, maybe I'll draw a face with him on the street :-)

And face 29 the princess from the fairy tale: The Frog Prince; or Iron Henry

She has been part of an earlier post, or rather: she was on the skirt I have posted a few weeks ago, so now you get a close up of her face :-)

Below you can see a little dog I "found" on the skirt I've painted these faces on. I'm not counting him in as one of the faces, but I will just go on painting faces, as that is what I love to do! 

Dear all people from blogs and from facebook and especially the one person who initiated the whole thing!

14 of 29 faces

Today is the day I gave myself a treat! I found some workable clay yesterday, and I gave myself one hour to work a face out of it. One hour because I have an important assignment to finish!

Very important: I listened to my favorite music at the moment: Vivaldi's "Winter" from the Four Seasons, played by musicians outdoor in Venice, another treat! It is so fascinating to sea the video clip, carnival in Venice!!! Love this peace all together! It reminds me of my visit in Venice in November 2011, the 54th Art biennale. It's starting again soon (in June?) Would love to go again!!!!!!! :D Maybe I will... Enough of that ;-)

So here is a lump of clay:

After a few minutes you can see the first facial features:

The next few photos the face is slowly being worked out:

Below it looks quite like a face,

 but the profile is not done:

To be able to work out the profile, I have hollowed the lump:

Flattened face:

Now it was easier to work on the features, but the clay also easily creased, so I had to be careful:

This is how far I went within an hour. Still a lot to proceed on before I would call it finished!

To give you an idea of the size of the face I took some photos, using the face as a mask:

It is about 23 cm.

One new photo!!! But still some way to go:

Sculpting is my favorite art form. But it is also a very time consuming and complex process. Also it is something I have least experience with, as painting and drawing is more easily done in between my main duties!!!

So before starting on duties again (14th) I experimented with the face, making marks and adding colour. Please let me know, what you think about the result!

Hope you enjoyed this, I did :-)

Happy 29 faces!

29 faces

and the Paint Party Friday!!!

Clay sculptures

Fantasy creature in a bowl.

Horns of a cow were used to form the four pointed round figures, all embellished with some kind of print or pattern.

Raven head, blackened with shoe polish and charcoal and  decorated with feathers

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Lerskulptur inspireret af Barbro Åberg

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