Comfort

 

Clay sculpture with surface colour approx 13" x 10" x 6"

This piece was "finished" a couple of weeks ago but the bisque colouring was too heavy for me so today I rubbed most of it off with small files.  I see now that she has a little bit of angst about her but she has a feathered friend to help her get through.  And she is a tough lady so she will survive. 

I allowed a dark cushion and a stained chair seat to be the setting and photographed her in bright sunlight coming through the attic dormer window. So lucky to be able to do all this.

Techie note: I used DAS air drying clay for this piece. It hardly cracks at all and carves wonderfully once it is totally dried, so you get the best of both worlds  - modelling and carving.  I did make a rough armature of aluminum wire and polystyrene blocks which I will leave in there for additional support as air drying clay never needs to be kiln fired so there  is no need to remove the armature.