Monday, February 26, 2007

RavenStone's Face

Here's a close-up of the face I carved for the sculpture below. I carved it in a smooth-grained wood (basswood), and then painted it with a rusty-red undercoat, followed by a splotchy covering of composite gold leaf. I wanted the red to show through the little gaps in the metallic covering, just as it did on the "spikes" on the lower body.
Note that it's not carved fully "in the round", but almost as a bass-relief piece in keeping with the almost monolithic shape I'm so fond of right now. These pieces are almost tablet-like in shape - something I find fascinating.

1 comment:

Paula Manning-Lewis said...

Good to see a new post, David! Do you sell in galleries? If so, which galleries? Just curious, I'd love to see you work in person!

:)