Atlantis finished!

Finally finished this peice (minus some minor cleanup work).

Seahorse Sculpture

It has been a long time coming but I'm finally getting a lot closer to completion with this piece. Hopefully in the next week or two I can have this sculpture behind me.

Still deciding on the name but as for now I'm leaning towards "Guardian of Atlantis"

Thanks for looking.

Gerald

Sculpting with Wax

I've been wanting to try sculpting with wax for some time so I finally bit the bullet purchased a few pounds of wax a few months back. I'm mainly a polymer clay artist so there has been a learning curve with wax. The sculpture is still a work-in-progress but here is a sneak peak of what I have come up with so far.

I have also put together a little article that compares wax with polymer clay. You can read about it on the following link:

http://www.polymerclayfan.com/sculpting-with-wax-vs-polymer-clay.htm

All the best,
Gerald Gore

Making progress on the Centaur

Well, I took some time off from sculpting but I'm back at it again full force. I'm still working on my centaur but I have made a lot of progress since my last post.

I still have a long ways to go on this piece but it is progressing along nicely. As expected the anatomy for the horse has been a challenge but I have made progress with it.

The attached picture isn't all that great so I'll try to take some better pics for the next time I make a post.

You can see a front shot of this sculpture at http://www.polymerclayfan.com/images/Centaur-front.jpg.

All the best,
Gerald

Centaur - WIP

I've wanted to sculpt a centaur for some time now but have never scheduled my time to work on it. I have quite a few sculptures on my bench right now that I need to complete but I've just reached a point where I have to sculpt my centaur. This sculpture has probably been on my mind for about 7 to 8 months so that is why I really think it is time to exclusively work on it for the time being.
My approach for this piece is to complete the easiest areas first (human anatomy in my case) and then spend the rest of the time focusing on sculpting the harder parts of this particular piece (the horse anatomy). I've only sculpting one complete horse so I'm not as familiar with it as I am with sculpting people. This piece will be a good challenge for me and I expect to learn a lot in the process.

So to cut to the chase, here is a sneak peak of my centaur....

For those that are interested I usually post sneak peaks for my work-in-progress sculptures in my sculpting tutorial newsletter located at www.polymerclayfan.com.

How to sculpt a dog

For the dog lovers out there I have created a step-by-step tutorial on how to sculpt a dog using polymer clay. I have already sculpted quite a few dog portraits in the past and have enjoyed each and every portrait that I have created.

The image to the left is my latest dog portrait and was created as a gift for my wife. We have a new pitbull puppy and has made her claim that this will be "her" dog (you can read the details why on the tutorial introduction page).

You can view the full Dog Portrait Sculpture tutorial on PolymerClayFan.com

Free sculpting tutorials

Well, I haven't posted much here lately since I have been focusing most of my time working on my polymer clay tutorial site. The site offers free tutorials that show step-by-step progress shots of some of my latest work. I've already made a few post about the site and want to extend an invitation for those have not had a chance to visit it yet. I've also included a gallery section that shows some of the artwork that I have created with polymer clay.

I also have a free newsletter that I send out usually twice a month. You should be able to subscribe to the newsletter on just about every page of the site. The newsletter gives additional sculpting tips (outside what is covered in the tutorials), recap of the previous tutorials and occassionally a sneak peak of future lessons.

Browse all the tutorials on the site and shoot me an email if you have any questions.

All the best,
Gerald