More splashing
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 33.5 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 30 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 29 “bringing home the bacon”
Right hoof
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 28.5 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 28 “bringing home the bacon”
Today’s ingredients
Hay, string and wire-cloth to be mixed with plaster.
The left leg Preplaster
Hoof vibrations
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 27.5 “bringing home the bacon”
The first day of plaster
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 27 “bringing home the bacon”
Frint side of Left leg
Right leg
Left leg side view
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 26 “bringing home the bacon”
Building the ears and adding baling wire before the plaster.
Looking nose to nose
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 25.5 “bringing home the bacon”
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 25 “bringing home the bacon”
the pig face
view of facing the nose
Side view
covering the bridge of the nose and forehead
Back of the head
The mouth
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 22 “bringing home the bacon”
progress-
Hands and hoofs
hands
Hoofs
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 21 “bringing home the bacon”
Today’s progress-
Feet and legs
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 20 “bringing home the bacon”
What a relief, I was able to get the piece in my car and to the sheet metal fabricators. .
The sheet Metal fabricators did a beautiful job leveling the steel base.
With this cold weather it is nice to get out of the garage and working inside my studio.
I will take down all the drawings, I want them to be very pressed for the exhibit and I need a clean wall to use as a backdrop as I work on the next stage of the sculpture . In order to press them I bought two pieces of sheet rock to press them under. I also stack my bronze hats on them for extra weight.
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 19 “bringing home the bacon”
I unclamped the armature from the dolly to load it into my car and........... Houston, we have a problem! The base has warped from the heat of weld on the feet. The base is a basic potato chip. Fixing this is beyond my welding capabilities. This is a job for Blumenthal Sheet Metal. I think if they can weld basically a 2” wide frame around the edge, that would level the edge. It would still bubble in the middle, but that will not matter. I just need an edge that rests on the floor.
I will find out interesting he morning. 🤞
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 15 “bringing home the bacon”
My day started with an empty tank. I was ready to roll and I had to run refill my argon tank. :(
really irritating
Refilling my Argonne tank.
After lunch I finally got to work. Yesterday, I started the pig’s groin. I figured a pig’s groin looks like a dog’s groin. Not true - I decided to double check, and it turns out pig groins are pudgy and round. Dog groins are more like an empty bowl. It’s good I checked!
Here are images I used for reference. I googled “pig groin” and .....you don’t want to do that. People only post images of pig groins that a Veterinarian should see. I then googled “carrying a pig”. The below image shows how pudgy their grojns are.
Once I lay the lath over the armature, it will look a lot different. It looks weird now. I only put the armature at places that protrude. In the concave places, I will press the lath in. That is why the nose looks bizarre.
I can’t wait until tomorrow to do the hands. :)
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 13 “bringing home the bacon”
Chest, hoofs and dewclaws
Upper chest connected
Hoof and dewclaw
Hoof and dew claw
Hoof and dew claw
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 9 “bringing home the bacon”
Today I adjusted the shoulder width, started the chest and connected the back extensions at the top.
View from the front
View from the back
I might need to trim up his chest tomorrow. Grrrrrr
Hurricane Harvey - sculpture day 7 “bringing home the bacon”
My work day was short today.
