{"id":1981,"date":"2013-08-31T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2013-08-31T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:18:08","slug":"new-model-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/new-model-started\/","title":{"rendered":"New model started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have the half ton of clay I ordered I decided to start with this model scaled to compensate for two shrinkings of clay.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s inspired by a circa 1900 carved keystone I removed from a buidling facade around 1976.<br \/>\nI have the other one I removed and so I was able to get the exact size of the stone and depth of the face etc from it to work with.<br \/>\nI always called this one a cowboy due to the hat which years ago I thought suggested a cowboy hat, but it actually doesn&#8217;t seem to be, but is some kind of soft men&#8217;s hat with an odd brim and an odder obviously floppy top to it.<br \/>\nDue to the limitations of stone the &#8220;horns&#8221; of the hat were probably made thicker than the actual hat was.<br \/>\nI would guess that since most stone carvers of the era were immigrants from Europe, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland etc., that the hat likely represents a style from &#8220;home&#8221; that was familiar to the carver, I&#8217;ve been unable to identify the hat so far, but I had been heretofore looking only in the 19th century American hat styles.<\/p>\n<p>First roughout session:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/scaled.jpg\" alt=\"scaled\" width=\"600\" height=\"729\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1984\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original stone:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cowboy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cowboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"436\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1952\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I have the half ton of clay I ordered I decided to start with this model scaled to compensate for two shrinkings of clay. It&#8217;s inspired by a circa 1900 carved keystone I removed from a buidling facade around 1976. I have the other one I removed and so I was able to get the exact size of the stone and depth of the face etc from it to work with. I always called this one a cowboy due to the hat which years ago I thought suggested a cowboy hat, but it actually doesn&#8217;t seem to be, but is some kind of soft men&#8217;s hat with an odd brim and an odder obviously floppy top to it. Due to the limitations of stone the &#8220;horns&#8221; of the hat were probably made thicker than the actual hat was. I would guess that since most stone carvers of the era were immigrants from Europe, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland etc., that the hat likely represents a style from &#8220;home&#8221; that was familiar to the carver, I&#8217;ve been unable to identify the hat so far, but I had been heretofore looking only in the 19th century American hat styles. First roughout session: The original stone:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}