Copper Quixote

Rocinante by any other name . . . .


(All appreciation to Gustave Dore and his artwork.)

Reprise: Copper Bangle / Mermaid

 Old clay.

Swell: Captive in Clay

The Captive, Unbound (Nisus):
sculpture mix; shino and transparent brown glazing;
copper wire, beaten.

Looking back: 07/18/13

Here's a link you may like if you like this shot--the full graphic-visual scenario--
"Surviving the Shipwreck".

Reprise: Aegir, Sea-God

Model Behavior

I miss sculpting.
Older pieces, gathering dust here.

Foreground: The Pict

Background: The Merman's Head.

Alternative titles: Not Hadrian; Deep in Thought; or The Painted Man's Grasp.

Brass Hooks, Sidelong Looks

Aegir: sculpture mix; blue, green,and white glazes;
copper wire; fishhooks.
20-minute exercise with model.
(I overglazed, actually, but later I realized that I like the gloppy, soggy, flowing look with this piece.)

Postscript:

Reprise/New shots of an old piece.  I like the angles.

Salvage Work: Rough Mermaid

I made this rough model for a larger piece, and now I'm wishing I'd spent more time on her face and on properly glazing her tail.  Still, each model helps me with the next.

Sculpture mix; green and blue glazing; copper wire; copper fishhooks; charcoal.

Aegir: Copper and Clay

Centering

Trickster: Glimpses

Trickster: sculpture mix; brown, black, and maybe shino glazes, blended; copper wire, hammered.

(I've posted shots of this live model exercise at various times in this blog; if you are interested, please use the label-link "Trickster" below.)

Reprise: Aegir, Sea-God

Aegir: sculpture mix; blue, green,and white glazes; copper wire; fishhooks. 20-minute exercise with model.  

I've posted shots of this piece first here and collectively here.

The Thinker(s): Orkney-Style?

My Pict (pit-fired clay; hammered copper) --

with someone else's Thor in the background.

I must say that my own sense of the Orkneys comes, chiefly, from Dorothy Dunnett's treatment of those fabulous northern islands in her King Hereafter, that wonderful historical novel of Thorfinn of Orkney, of Macbeth, and of the Celtic/Pictish/Norse mixture that infused those islands.  Seamus Heaney's brief references in his North, the poetry of Orkney poet George Mackay Brown, Henry Treece's historical novel Splintered Sword, the classic Orkneyinga Saga, and R. E. Howard's Bran Mak Morn have also informed my imagination here.   

Unfortunately, I've yet to experience Orkney for myself, though I expect to visit in the next decade or so.

Thor as thinker?  More than you might think, surely.  Check the Eddas.