I'm back in my studio now and working on "A Good Read". Still blocking in
the basic musculature and forms. While working, I could see that the
lips were too close to the nose, giving too much chin to the face. So I
have shown how to fix this problem.
First I took my sharp metal shaper and cut upwards towards the nose to
cut the lips off. Then I removed the lips. Next I replaced the lips onto
the sculpt only slightly lower.
After the lips are in place, I rolled out a small coil of clay and
placed it above the upper lip to fill in the crack. Then I continued
sculpting and adding more forms to the clay.
You can see that everything is very rough and that I am not
concentrating on any one area. As I work on the piece I'm constantly
moving around the and working front, back, side and adding clay as I go
to keep the piece moving along.
