Some time later

This eyeball is settled out... awaiting glasses but i kind of got the idea now of what i have. one shortsighted eye (the new un) and one long sighted. This makes me feel like i'm on drugs at all times. hoping glasses will help at least when i walking down the street. Healthwise i been really knocked about by either the insult of the operation or just the fact i stopped struggling for a few weeks after having no break at all for 3 years. Have now had 7 weeks, i think, in stasis. Thus the lack of intrest in writing blog when nothing is happening either in reality or in my imagination. But have come to see i will not get better by accident i have to strike a blow. Its now xmas hols from work, we get 2 weeks. I intend to be vastly improved in 2 weeks time. Comon glasses!

BTW my nephew living with us is now 6 weeks old. He is the same age as my new eyeball, give or take a week.  I hope to use him as my model sometime. He is as yet not too entertaining, though i get the rare huge grin just for me that makes my day.

Sculpturally speeking i been informed i got a tender i went for, tho no paperwork yet so i won't go into details. its 3 busts of old poets. Reckon i was the absolute cheapest tender... couldn't see i needed to get paid more than that so thats what i put. starting to think i maybe should have allowed more for foundry in case i decided to get extravagant, but i will just have to work in the confines of the usual bust idea then instead. Should be fun, and a good learnin opp. Doing people's heads is difficult but without the bodies it should be quite a fast thing i hope.

anyway my newest project before starting the real project, is to make real bust armatures, something i've dodged for all these years by making every head off some aluminium bent creation i found in a rubbish bin at art school 20+ years ago. its not ideal, its crooked, and it has bits that always stick out the neck. but it was free, light, tough, and never rust. i'm gonna make some real ones now though as per Lanteri's book. I bought some armature wire at vast expense from the sculpt shop and i found some excellent big bits of ply in a bin at the studio. all i need now is some 5cm x 5cm length of wood for the neck bit and i got all my ingredients. How exciting.

Today braved the pre-xmas at ikea. silly thing to do, but we made it. with my 6 week old nephew, even.  mention this cos i got an apron there for sculpting that's exactly like the one Henry Moore was wearing on the cover of a book i've got about him. That for extra inspiration :)