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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

THE GIFT

Greg Ruth

[caption id="attachment_73546" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Art by Kent Williams[/caption] I've been trying to figure a way to boil down a post to celebrate Allen Spiegel's life, what he meant to me and so many others in his decades long career as an art enabler, agent, mentor and friend. It's never easy, and always reductive. So I'm going eschew the standard protocol and list all his history of accomplishments, which are so many and voluminous as to hold…

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Harvest King

YESTERDAY’S POST

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Going Green: Sculpting with “Green Stuff”

Kristine Poole

September 28, 2023 - Problem solving often plays a significant role in sculpting, especially when working with water-based clay (which generally spends its life wanting nothing more than to collapse into one big cow patty). We have to constantly pit our wits against the will of gravity itself. On top of this, sometimes an even bigger challenge is presented by the material not being particularly well-suited to a specific part of the project. On that note, today we'll take a look at the process of bringing “The Cricket’s Tale” into being. The original pose had our model leaning against a pole. Colin and I both were quite taken with her pose, but as “model with pole” has been done ad inifinitum, we wanted to find a different solution. Our conversation began by considering what else she might be holding…

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