Claywork - Blog Posts

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well on this Friday evening, and may I wish you a lovely weekend ahead. Tonight I'd like to present one further new photograph of my sculpture called Mirror Mirror Vampire nicknamed MMV.

This horror project was wonderful to create and I wanted to share one more new photo of this sculpture before I present a different project on here. Of course this was a horror project but at the same time the sculpture kind of delivered a gothic architecture style about itself as well which was nice to see.

One day I might even create a follow up to this sculpture in the sense that I might present half a figure lunging out of a bigger mirror, which could make for an interesting sculpture.

More artwork very soon, keep well and Take care 🤗☺️👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well and the new week has started well for you. Before I show something new on here I just wanted to present one more photo of my sculpture called The Glamour Girl. This is a nicely toned black and white close up of the sculpture , I really enjoyed creating this project and when you stood back and viewed the sculpture she really did have quite a presence about her.

This sculpture was life size and modelled in water based clay my favourite medium to work in, have a great rest of the week, more artwork very soon, Take care 🤗☺️👋

Hello dear friends, may I present a newly creative version of my sculpture called The Glamour Girl. I've taken many photographs of past sculptures and it's only perhaps over the last two years that I've started to edit the pictures. To see if I can create some interesting images that might work for future wall art, I call this image " Burning Up " and of course it's The Glamour Girl. I hope January has started well for you and may I wish you a great rest of this week, Take care 🤗☺️👋

Hello dear friends, after a few black and white posts I thought I'd present something bright and colourful.

So may I present Little Boy Tom in this lovely purple hue toned picture . The picture presents this little fellas charm in a vibrant and striking look , I really enjoyed sculpting this statue back in the day.

I hope you're well on this Friday evening, I look forward to showing further work very soon, Take care 🤗👍👋

Hello dear friends, when I last posted I presented a little black and white glimpse of Little Boy Tom. So tonight I thought I'd present a black and white photo of the whole framed canvas wrap print.

This canvas wrap print is called Little Boy Tom and was created from my sculpture called Little Boy Tom, which was a life size figurative portrait I created of a sitting little boy.

And this artwork is in a newly painted black and white frame, I look forward very much to presenting more artwork on here very soon.

I wish you a great weekend, keep well and Take care 🤗👍👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well and I hope you've had a great week. Tonight may I present a little black and white glimpse of a canvas wrap print in a newly decorated frame.

I've shown this in black and white as soon I'm going to be creating some black and white wall art. I'll show this artwork here in full and in colour very soon .

This particular artwork is called Little Boy Tom and was created from my sculpture called Little Boy Tom. I'm going to present artworks in white frames , black frames and black and white frames, I look forward to showing further work on here very soon.

Have a great weekend, Take care ☺️👋👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well on this Tuesday evening, tonight may I present the pink toned sketch rendering of my sculpture called Spike.

This was created from my life size sculpture called Spike which was based on the characters from the film called Gremlins. The original clay sculpture was modelled in water based clay and a wonderful project to create.

I look forward to showing further art work very soon, keep well and Take care 🤗☺️👋

Hello dear friends, tonight may I present a closer look at Tut , shown here as a black and white.

I love creating Egyptian themed artworks , there's always such a presence about the peace of work. And the eyes, always those eyes are watching you.

There will definitely be more Egyptian work in the future, but very soon I will finally be showing The Lost Boy Of Venice finally finished.

I hope you're having a fine week, keep well and Take care ☺️👍👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well and may I wish you a happy midweek.

Tonight I'd like to present another creative moment from my design desk, I call this image The Spirit Of Tut.

I created this from my sculpture called Tut and this is a design idea for a possible future canvas wrap print.

I look forward to showing further art very soon, wish you well, Take care 🤗☺️👋

The wooden clay armature, Hello dear friends tonight I wanted to present a photo that would be a real insight into the making of a life size sculpture.

This photo shows the life size wooden armature that I created for a previous statue I've presented on here called The Glamour Girl. This is what's inside of the clay in order to hold the sculpture in shape.

The aim of the armature is to take the weight of the clay and the armature must fit inside of the clay the same way that a skeleton fits inside the human body.

I usually create my armatures out of wood, steel brackets and nuts and bolts and once the armature is in place and the figures pose is correct. I then cover the armature with clay and slowly build up the figure and face and any clothes etc.

Of course when you look at the clay sculpture, you wouldn't know there was an armature inside, but there is and it's a very important factor of a sculpted project.

I'll post again very soon, I hope you're having a fine week, keep well and Take care ☺️👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well on this late Sunday evening and may I wish you a Happy start to September.

Tonight I'd like to present to you this violet purple close up Egyptian themed portrait . This is a further design I created from my sculpture called Ancient Egypt.

It's still in keeping with the Egyptian look and character but the beautiful colours give a lush striking appearance to the artwork.

I look forward to presenting further art work here very soon, Happy new week, Take care 🤗😌👋

Hello dear friends, may I present to you this green take on my sculpture called Ancient Egypt. I'm always toying creatively and it always seems that there is another way to present a sculpture.

Sometimes getting creative with pictures allows one to see the sculpture in a different way. And of course some pictures really bring out the character of the work of art.

I think this close up photo really shows the intensity of this Egyptian work , I look forward to posting again very soon.

I hope the week is going well for you, Take care dear friends 🤗☺️👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well on this late Sunday evening, tonight may I present this recently created new black and white photo of my sculpture called Ancient Egypt.

I've really enjoyed creating Egyptian themed statues and in the future I look forward to creating more and I'll certainly look forward to showing them on here.

More art to follow very soon, I wish you a great new week ahead, Take care 🤗🙏👋

Hello dear friends, may I present a new photo of my sculpture Tut, I've chosen to present the photo in an Emerald filter in the hope of making an artistic impression.

I really enjoyed creating this statue, it was a real challenge capturing the details and trying to create that Egyptian look . When you stood back and looked at this statue in the eyes the eyes seemed to look right back at you.

You almost get that feeling of being observed when you're next to Egyptian themed statues, as though you're being watched. Perhaps that was their aim , perhaps these works of art were placed there to protect and guard and something.

I'll definitely be creating more Egyptian themed sculptures in the future and I'll look forward to that . More art to follow soon dear friends, have a great new week, Take care 🤗🙏👋

Hello dear friends, I hope I'm finding you well on this very late evening. Tonight may I present the pinky purple Pop art close up image of The Lady Shades Hey Face.

I'm having a lot of fun creating these images and it's really giving me the chance to be so artistically creative. Back when this was a life size clay sculpture it was a hard project to be working on .

I always look forward to presenting art work here, I'll try to keep interesting art works coming, more art to follow very soon, hope you're having a fine week, Take care 🤗☺️👋

Hello dear friends, I'm really finding lately that currently art for me is an endless journey of creative experiments . I suppose I'm just trying to find out if I can come up with some interesting images for possible designs.

Tonight I'd like to present to you the purple hue light figurative sketch rendering of The Lady Shades Her Face. Again this was created from one of my photos I took of the clay statue I sculpted called The Lady Shades Her Face.

This was definitely a favourite sculpture to work on of my past projects, I dearly look forward to showing you further art work very soon, keep well and Take care 🤗🙏👋

Hello dear friends, may I present a little bit of creative fun here, as an artist you are always experimenting with designs and colours. And of course shapes especially when sculpting in clay , this here was a colour test for perhaps a future Pop art print.

So I decided to try out this colour on a sketch rendering created from a photo of one of my creature designs . The colour result is perhaps striking and eye catching I hope, I'll keep playing and testing though 😊 and see what else I can come up with.

I wish you a happy new week ahead, more art to follow soon , keep well and Take care 👍🤗👋

Hello dear friends, may I present to you a close up shot of my sculpture called The Lost Boy Of Venice.

Work is still ongoing on this project as of late I've not been able to dedicate as much time on this sculpture as I wanted to and I've missed my planned deadline.

I'm hoping to now have this finally ready by the end of April , I'll look forward to showing you more photos of this project and other projects I'm working on very soon.

I wish you well, Take care dear friends 🤗🙏👋

Hello dear friends, may I present a purple hue tint of my light sketch rendering of The Lady Shades Her Face. Just getting creative with this image and trying out different colour tones, I'll look forward to showing one of the red tones very soon.

I hope I'm finding you well on this midweek evening, I'll post more art work very soon, Take care in your different parts of the world 🤗🙏😊

Hello dear friends, I thought tonight I would present a black and white close up photo of The Lost Boy Of Venice. This photo just gives you a closer look at the sculpture as I bring this project to a nearing finish.

By the end of February I'm hoping to finally present this sculpture to you totally finished and I'll look forward to that if luck goes my way. I hope you're well and may I wish you a happy midweek, Take care 🤗😌👋 , more art very soon 👍

Hello dear friends, may I present to you the next in the making photo of my new sculpture The Lost Boy Of Venice. As of late I've been able to dedicate a little more time to this project and the little ghost boy is taking real shape now.

I'm hoping to have this sculpture finished by the end of this month, it's now just about adding final details and trying to make the sculpture as life like as possible.

I so look forward to showing you more of this project very soon, I hope the New Year has begun well for you, Best Wishes for 24 dear friends, Take care 🙏🤗🥂🍾🎈😌👋

Hello dear friends, may I present to you the seductive light rendering of The Lady Shades Her Face. This was created from my sculpture called The Lady Shades Her Face.

With luck I will actually be able to present on here the next photo of The Lost Boy Of Venice project as my next post. As we're now in December I hope you're starting to get into the festive mood .

Happy midweek dear friends, keep well and Take care 🤗👍👋

Hello dear friends, I thought I'd present a closer look at the The Two Little Puppies sculpture. So I'd like to present this close up photo of The Two Little Puppies, which were modelled in water based clay and were life size.

I haven't done lots of animal sculptures, but I'm definitely going to do further sculptures of this nature for sure. Hope you're well and I hope you've had a fine week , as I'll always say more art work on here very soon, Take care 🤗😌👋

Hello dear friends, hope I'm finding you well on this very late evening and may i wish you a happy mid week. Tonight I wanted to present a sculpture I created long ago of two little puppies.

This sculpture was life size and was actually called The Two Little Puppies, I enjoyed creating this project and I haven't really overly created very many animal sculptures. I hope for this to change in the future, once I've finally finished The Lost Boy Of Venice, I'm going to start work on a life size tiger cub .

As I said I'm going to try and keep the art work coming for you to see , hope you enjoy, keep well and Take care and more art very very soon 🤗😌🤚

Hello dear friends, this is the light soulful pencil rendering of my sculpture Wisdom. I hope I'm finding you well and I hope too that the week has started well for you.

From now on I'm going to try and post something on a weekly basis in the hope of really building up a fine gallery of art works. And I'll try to perhaps keep some engaged with my creative journey.

More art work very very soon , Take care in all your different parts of the world 🤗🙏😌

Hello dear friends, as we've just come through Halloween I thought I would present this blast from my past. And rather befitting for this time of year, this was my own little tribute to Horror icon Freddy Krueger.

I built this life size sculpture many years ago and rather than dress Freddy in his striped jumper I decided to dress him in a DJ which was fun . In a slightly comical way the sculpture looked mean and mad which was typical of Freddy Krueger in his films.

I'll look forward to posting again very soon, I promise to keep the art works coming, have a great new week ahead, Take care 🙏🤗👻🎃🤚

Hello dear friends, when it comes to art I find I'm always doing tests and artistic experiments. Perhaps trying to find what photos might work for perspective print designs.

This is a photo I've been playing with and I ended up creating this very blue toned picture. This is a side profile photograph of my sculpture called Tut, and with a little editing it's become a very striking picture.

So maybe I'll call this one The super blue toned Tut, work is on going on my new sculpture and very soon I'll present the next photo of that on here.

I wish you a great weekend for when it comes, keep well and Take care 🙌🙏🤗, more very soon 🖐️.

Hello dear friends, may I present the next photo of The Lost Boy Of Venice in the making. Slowly the little Ghost boy is developing and a little character is forming. It's all about forming the final shapes of his little figure and the features of his face.

The story of this sculpture is very sad so there won't be a smile on his face, there will be a sense of longing and loneliness about him. For as the legend has it he's a three years old little boy that lost his life who is now currently a 500 plus year old ghost that haunts the streets of Venice.

I dearly look forward to showing you further developments on this sculpture very soon as well as other ongoing artistic things that I'm up too. Hope the week has started well for you, Take care 🙏🤗🌷🖐️😌

Hello dear friends, this is one final edit from a photograph I took of my clay sculpture called Mirror Mirror Vampire.

I call this image The Blood Red Vamp MMV and this design is probably the most evil of the collection that I've created.

Won't be to much longer and I'll finally be able to present the next photo of The Lost Boy Of Venice, hope the week is going well for you, Take care 🖐️😌🌷

Hello dear friends, tonight may I present to you the pink MMV Sketch design. I created this from a photograph of my sculpture MMV, as of late I've been trying out different ideas for perspective print designs.

Some designs have worked and some haven't, in the future this might become one of the designs that I go on to produce as canvas wrap prints in white frames.

I've been able to dedicate a little more time again to my new sculpture The Lost Boy Of Venice. So with luck that should be the next photo I'll be able to present on here.

I wish you a great week and hope that your out there chasing your dreams, keep well and Take care 🤗🙏🌷