Year 2 Week 19

As I didn't make the course last week I did some research into my next stone sculpture. In other words I looked at images from the Internet of what I had in mind and I found some images of how other people had made sculptures of the same thing before.

I then made a maquette out of clay to see if it would work. I was pleasantly surprised by the maquette. Luckily my girlfriend's mum, Jean had bought me some self hardening clay for my birthday last year. It came in very handy now.

Below (at the request of Paul, my tutor) are some of the images I downloaded from the Internet to inspire me and below that some photos of the clay maquette.

Worked out what I am hoping to make yet?!?

I was inspired by walking through Russell Sq every time I go to and from my class. The squirrels are always running around. I had terrible trouble though finding a photo of a squirrel looking like I had imagined it. The picture above is the closest to what I was looking for. Body and head down, but tail up.

Below are the squirrel sculptures I found images of on the Internet.

None of them are that similar to what I was hoping to create. My favourite though is the one below as it is made from very similar colour stone to the piece I am using. I really like it. If mine turns out half that good I will be happy.



The next photos are of my maquette. In the second pair of photos I have added some details of legs etc. which I may or may not be able to carve out of the stone. I hope to make the stone carving a bit more angular than this. so it is a bit less cute!






In this weeks class I started the stone carving (see below). I used a hand saw to take a few big chunks out of the piece of stone. I then used a rasp on it just a little. You can probably see from my pencil marks the shape I am aiming at.

This is definitely my longest blog entry so far. I will shut up now.