My mantra for the
last few weeks has been, “Spend another day on it’, Spend another day on it”,
so much so is my desire for accuracy! Unfortunately this is the way it has to
be when you are not content with how the overall sculptural form is looking.
For me, it has to work from all angles. Strangely, some of the best angles and
perspectives are when you are above the sculpture looking down and through it.
I will take some photos from above and post them when complete. However, it’s
the slight changes needed to a curve or if a line is too straight which makes
all the difference. If the lines are not working together it can throw
everything out, which makes it unsettling on the eye as well as the adjoining
line or curve. The only solution is to get out the pencil and to draw straight
onto the sculpture, ready to carve, trim and tighten, pulling everything together.
With
the sculpture having its final hole cut through the bottom section I am
delighted how this looks as it still has retained a solidness to its form. It will slowly become wider, with the crescent
opening until it emphasises a greater lean, sweeping and twisting around the
back of the sculpture.
The next step now
is to begin the drawing, transferring and texturing of imagery onto the front
bands of stone. These will include the topographical map of the Cobtree area,
leaf patterns and water patterns. However, this will have to wait a few weeks,
as there is a very important issue of travelling to Italy, in search of sun,
sea and stone!!
