I've got midterms this week, so I've been quite busy. For Tuesday we have to have all the primitive forms done in both sculpey (miniature) and plastelina (ecroche) which includes the skull (I finally fixed the proportions of the skull, which were off in my last post), rib cage, pelvis, scapula's, and clavicles. With the primitive forms out of the way, we'll start learning the muscles and adding them to our ecroche. In class we build them on our little plastic skeleton. On Thursday we learned the supra-spenateous (sp?), which sits above the spine of the scapula and goes under the acromion process before inserting on the coracoid process. Under that is the infra-spenateous which sits below the spine of the scapula. Beneath that is the Teras minor and beneath that is the Tera major, which actually goes underneath the humorous before attaching on the front of that bone. Besides building them, we have to do a drawn rotation of the sculpture with overlays of the primitive forms, skeleton and muscles. In addition to that we have to do the overlays on top of a classical sculpture, I've chosen Bernini's Neptune fountain in Rome. I've got a lot of drawing to do before Tuesday, so off I go!
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This is marvelous! Can you note the dimensions of the model so that we can understand better? The pipe stand is a great idea! What is the skeleton made of... can't tell...conduit perhaps?
thanks! The large echroche (the one on the pipe stand) is about three feet tall - close to half scale. The skeleton is 1/4 inch armature wire wrapped in a smaller guage wire. The wire wrap helps the clay stick, but everything has to be pretty strong because this thing is gonna weigh a ton! The rib cage form is about seven pounds by itself.
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