Portraits and Memory

Image copyright  Art Di lella

Part of my working life was teaching . I taught a couple of classes for six and a half years at the Art Gallery of Ontario Gallery School. One of my classes was providing instruction for an advanced figurative sculpture class. One typical project that I assigned to students was a head study.
First of all,I never work on something of my own during a class because I feel the need to give the students my full attention. I will like most instructors, model something for demonstration purposes but never involve myself in actually sculpting something  in class.  Sometimes after classes with model's features still fresh in my mind, I will begin to model  from memory. The pictures in this post are an example of a portrait done from memory. The model,who I had never worked with before had a certain presence that I found compelling, so I started to model  her in terracotta clay and it seemed to have worked out pretty well.

Image copyright  Art  Di Lella

Image copyright  Art  Di Lella

Image copyright  Art  Di Lella

Image copyright  Art  Di Lella

Image copyright  Art  Di Lella

I wanted to mention I was intending today to open a new gallery for the blog but I'm still working on the photos. It will be unveiled soon,I hope. In the next posting, I'm planning to have some  undated images of LO and the large wax cast that is nearing completion. Talk to you all soon. Cheers.