Back in the old days some of us joined an Adults- only Art class at a local school for a year. It was a great opportunity to use clay and have it fired and glazed in the sculptors’ studio. I loved working three-dimensionally and still do on occasion but, this time, with self-hardening clay or Sculpey.
Many adults from the Art Guild, like, Joy, Joan Muss, Christine Valentini, Yvonne Komlenovitch, and in fact a whole class full of people studied (at Wexford Collegiate Art Centre at the time, now renamed Wexford Collegiate School For The Arts) as many as six subjects, graphics, sculpture and ceramics, drawing and painting, life drawing, media and techniques, and lettering and layout. They enjoyed every minute of it and I am sure it spurred the advancement of knowledge about the skills of being an artist in the 1980’s. They still talk about it today and at the time made a lot of good friends.
Sculpting the human figure takes considerable knowledge of anatomy and proportion and of course how to create an interesting pose. That along with the creation of a suitable patina creates an admirable finished piece like this one.
