Here’s how the template system works:

I started work on this earlier today and stopped at this point for now. The ears are just temporary blobs placed to get an idea of where things are going. I also needed to add a temporary ball of clay under the jaw to keep the head from sagging downward, it sort of looks like a beard in the photo. I will probably need to bring the head outward a little further and/or cut the concave background down a little deeper. This one doesn’t have a design number yet, I was going to use “129” but I already have a 129. And now Sunday after some more work:

I’ve often used the term “scaling” or “scaled” when referring to laying out the size of my models, I thought I would outline what this is exactly. All this means is sizing something according to some reference point humans comprehend in normal day to day life, coming up with a comparison point of reference that can be relayed to other people and they instantly gain a mental picture of how large something is. This is why we see constant references in the media to descriptions such as “the boulder was as big as a Volkswagen,” the area of the fire was larger than a football field.” In sculpture work we…

I am mulling about the idea of modelling a horsehead keystone in the manner of those I’ve seen on the facades various former stables in NYC and elsewhere. There’s at least half a dozen in NYC I’m aware of, one is at 129 Charles Street in Greenwich Village. A 3 story 1897 brick building which has in it’s later years been used as a garage and then converted into a residence. The little building sold a few years ago for the insane sum of $7 million, the property taxes on this little building last year were $26,000 and projected to increase to $31,000 next year (2014) I have seen some…