For you dear readers and collectors, a glimpse of what went into the creation of the Iberian stallion sculpture, “Aeos”. It turned out to be a three-year journey!
The general process will look familiar to my sculpture students: first a wire armature that is essentially a scale model of a skeleton; the addition of a flat vertical plane of clay to define the torso; the addition to that of horizontal planes of clay to frame in the pelvis; add clay to round out the torso; the use of various hardness of wax to give sturdy structure to the legs; nifty wire mesh as the substructure for manes and tails.
If you’d like to experience the process yourself, I will be teaching the three-day “Wire to Whinny” workshop this coming September, 2017. Please visit http://lynnafraley.com/workshops/ for more information.
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- February 2014, Aeos begins
- February 2014, Aeos and Artesia, designed as a pair
- February 2014, armature wire for right hind leg of Aeos
- February 2014, red wax is added to the right hind leg of Aeos
- February 2014, drop by drop brown wax forms the right hind hoof of Aeos
- late February 2014, Aeos and Artesia
- October 2015, wire mesh forms the substrucure of Aeos’ mane
- October 2015, both wax and clay cover the wire mesh of Aeos’ mane
- April 2016, Aeos mounted on a telescope tripod that allows me to move a sculpture to just about any angle