peter demetz

 one thing i absolutely cannot do - 3d realism. peter demetz's work is just amazing to me! 

dani handcraft

 i know nothing about dani handcraft, who they are, where they come from or what they're about. these pieces tho, keep appearing on my socials and i love them. i've said it before and i'll say it again - some large part of my favourite art is comprised of things i just can't do myself. as with this, i can't wait to give it a go one of these days but i know already it won't look like any of this. proper skill! 

chiharu shiota

 beautiful. but if cats get in there..... 

rebecca stevenson

rebecca stevenson - i don't really make three dimensional things much any more as i don't have anywhere to put them. i do like a play with wax tho. these are joyous 

yoshihiro suda

off the scale skills from yoshihiro suda. i was heartened at his interestin some sort of japanese speedwell from the star. i wish there was a video of him working - these are breathtaking! and his exhibition idea is great!

making a teapot

 

  

i'm absolutely rubbish making anything out of clay. here's what happens if you practice

sculpt a head

winter's coming and there's surely better things to be doing than watching tv, cat videos etc etc. me, i got a bunch of clay recently that's utterly unsuitable for what i wanted it for so i'm looking for wee projects i can try out new things with (lots of wee projects - it's a big lump of clay!). i've never done any sort of realist three dimensional work before so i'm going to give this a go. i have little doubt this guy is making it look easier than it is! lol

alan faulds

 another artist i came across recently was alan faulds. i've been looking at his work around lower largo for years but knew nothing about who it was or what it was about. what a joy then to get to visit his garden and see a bunch of his work in situ. it reminded me very much of little sparta which, for me, is never going to be a bad thing!

reinhard behrens

 

also fabulous this week was coming across reinhard behrens who, for some bizarre reason, was unknown to me prior. the scope of what he's about with naboland is just breathtaking. but that's not to mention it's very specific quirkiness, detail and humour. a privilege to see!

botanical plaster casting

i've been changing my practice of late and, to keep myself motivated with longer term projects, i've been trying my hand at other things that i might not have done before (see the wire trees) but have thought about on and off for, in some cases, years. botanical plaster casting is a case in point. this is an excellent video showing the process 

more wire trees

 

after last week's wire trees video here's another one. the amount of wire is bigger - i do favour sectioning and then twisting the trunk - but be aware that this is hard on the hands and, if you're using coloured wire like this if you use pliers you'll break the coating and, potentially, break the wire. i like the foliage technique in this. it's quicker than using pliers (and see above) and makes pleasing foliage.

again, it's all in spanish. i think it would be pretty easy to follow even if you don't speak spanish so give it a go. if it's your first tree you may not want to use quite as much wire and definitely don't go for coloured wire!

darius hulea

 

after the wire tree post the other day up posts this from darius hulea. i have no clue how he's done the face! top skills! it's worth having a google to see more of what he's done. or, give it a go, and see just how skilful this is. 

wire trees

 i was fancying a wee wire tree and, seeing as the weather is uniformly awful, should be getting stuck into making something shortly. this is one of the better videos about doing this sort of thing (fear not english speakers - subtitles available!), not least because he advised actually looking at trees and letting the mind flow... 

should you fancy a go he also does a good starter video - there aren't any english subtitles on this but you can get it to autotranslate of you go into settings in your youtube menu

theo jansen

 

more here

will kurtz

yes, you could say there's something just a bit obvious in some of will kurtz's figures. but for me, that would be profoundly ungenerous. i love his use of material. these are joyous

debra fritts

i do love a head with a big halo round it. and, as ever, i do love seeing other people making objects that i couldn't if i had a decade of sundays. debra fritts ticks all the boxes

ebon heath

so you could describe ebon heath as a letter artists, a sculptor, a paper artists or something else entirely....

george lafayette

there was a time when i might have said figurative sculpture wasn't my thing but there's just so much skill going on here from george lafayette

ishibashi yui

i'm probably less comfortable with ishibashi yui's work than i was with yesterday's post. explanations aside the execution is fabulous

caddie weisenberg

i find myself being more and more taken by ceramics these days. caddie weisenberg appears to have no web presence whatsoever but images abound. happy googling!