I finished my latest piece, but there’s no picture yet, as I feel I ought to let the person who’s having it see it first.

Watch this space (tomorrow night I expect).

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I’m going to start my first big sculpture in stone soon,  so I’ve decked out my work area in plastic (to keep the dust down).  I think Dexter Morgan would be impressed!

Another small sculpture I finished last night, based upon the character Arlen from the excellent novel, ‘The Painted Man’ by Peter V. Brett.  http://www.petervbrett.com/

He’s made out of polymer clay and is around 5cm in length.

I had a Tweet from Peter Brett himself, “Wow. Incredible sculpture of the Warded Man by @Darrell_Hayward”, “I love it”

For those that don’t know, the Warded Man is the alternate name for The Painted Man.  To follow Peter on Twitter, use @PVBrett

Here we go – my work for the past 5/6 months, a bit at a time, while doing other stuff!  The problem occurs in that it is ‘shave a bit off, add a bit here, wait for it to dry, get on with life, next day….’ etc.  I guess if I were to do one in one go it would be 4 weeks or so, Monday to Friday, 8 hours a day.  Perhaps net time I’ll put a timer on each time I do a bit!  Anyway, here she is, Cleopatra, based upon a painting by Sam Weber, done for National Geographic.  Please take a look at the original, which is beautiful. http://sampaints.com/2011/11/22/national-geographic/

She was a little hard to do, seeing as I only had a side-on reference, but I hope I did his painting justice.

She is made of air-dry clay and is full (head) size.  Better photos will be posted when the weather (ie amount of daylight) improves!

Nearly finished…

Have just finished this, after deciding that I could do no more with the hands – Air-dry clay is too crumbly for small work!  Still, I’m happy with it.

Not based on anything – truely original and is around 20cm.  Also, not sure what to call her, so suggestions are welcome.

Another view of the one I’m working on…The hand is a pain,  as the material is really ‘crumbly’ at that scale.

Just thought I would publish a picture of my latest ‘Rape of Proserpina’ – I couldn’t bear to part with my first one, so when someone offered to buy it, so I made another, which did actually come out better than the first I feel.  I also felt I couldn’t sell a piece unless I was 100% happy with it.