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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Mystery Bust "Sort of" Revealed Part 2

Image copyright Art Di Lella 2013

Image copyright Art Di Lella 2013

Happy New Year

I'm back with a series of posts about a commission that started back in September of this past year.
The artist Chris Curreri and I had a number of conversations over the past several months about the opportunity to work together again on a sculpture idea Chris had been working on for an upcoming show. Under Chris' direction I began sculpting this bust and the above images illustrate the early development of this piece.

I'll be back soon with the third installment. Cheers.

Friday, 25 October 2013

Hyper Realistic Sculpture "Mystery Bust" Part 1

Over the past two weeks I've been working on a hyper realistic sculpture bust in clay which was commissioned about a month ago. For now I can't divulge the story about this sculpture until the end of November.
Until then I will refer to it as my "mystery bust".

Sunday, 6 October 2013

Staying Ahead Part 3 Final

The subject of today's post is the final images of the clay portrait I've been working on since the spring.
This is of course a real departure from my hyper realistic sculpture that has dominated most of the past images on this blog. I'm glad this bit is done and I will move on to moulding and casting. Looking forward to it.
In the meantime,have a great week.

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Shaman's Dream Abraham Anghik Rueben

I've been recently going through my collection of images of different projects over the past few months. The above photographs show a wax cast of a sculpture by Abraham Anghik Rueben. The mould which I made back in 2009 was off a soapstone original. Abraham's works are often extremely complex from a technical standpoint and require sophisticated moulding and wax working techniques.
The wax sculpture cast that is shown was produced back in July 2013 and is in the process of being cast in bronze by the Crucible Foundry. You can see more of Abraham's work at Kipling Galleries, Toronto.

At present, I've been making changes to the clay portrait that I'm working on as well catching up on other casting projects.
I'll be back soon. Cheers.

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Staying Ahead Part 2

I just wanted to do a quick post on this portrait head. I've been busy on several fronts so some projects like this commissioned clay portrait are taking more time but it does give me an opportunity to be a little more thorough. I'm still working out the hair and still evaluating the facial forms at this point of the process. It still a ways to go but I feel it's getting closer.
I'll be back soon. Have a great week.
Cheers.

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Skin Texture for Hyper/Photo Realistic Figure Sculpture

This is the early stages of skin texture being applied to the figure. The texture process as I've described in earlier posts is multistaged with layer upon layer of different sometimes extremely subtle tooling applied to the surface. I've found this approach best because it gives depth to the skin itself. It's been an up and down process so far but I feel I'm closer to completing the clay model than at any other time.
In the meantime, the studio continues to be busy with some major projects coming up in the Fall as well. I'll announce that in September.
I wish all my visitors,a great weekend. Cheers.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Portraits,Skulls and Figures

Today's post focuses on some of the artists that I have worked with over the past few months.

The first picture is a portrait of Lincoln Alexander by the sculptor Gino Cavecchioli. Lincoln Alexander was a prominent politician from Hamilton Ontario who served in the federal cabinet as minister of labour in the Joe Clark government back in 1979.