Wednesday 13 April 2016

Update #2

This is where I am today

Red = to be completed

1/ Revised maquette with fur gloves hanging - underway
2/ Get a feel for the portrait by way of a stand alone clay head - underway
3/ Original plaster maquette enlarged to 3/4 life size - underway
4/ Life size lay figure to model clothes for reference - underway
5/ Costumier (Liz Gurney) to make life-size replica polar kit - underway
6/ Polar kit put on lay figure and configured to the original maquette and 3/4 life clay 
7/ 3/4 life clay finished to high standard
8/ 3/4 life enlarged to full size
9/ mould made of full size
10/ full size bronze cast.

I have now got everything in place on the 3/4.  Next will be to finish this, work up the portrait and refine detail.