My fourth sculpt from some time back. I always liked how this one turned out. Since she’s reclining there was no need for an armature, and it gave a lot of freedom to move things around a bit to play with the composition.

Our group lost our regular sculpting space a couple months ago, and although another space was just found, it’s difficult for me to make it Monday nights. I’m hoping to tweak my schedule and make it back in again.

This is my fifth figure sculpt, a standing woman. Working with clay is still very new to me and a real challenge. A whole new way of trying to get anatomy, proportion, and gesture feeling right. I’m trying to learn to push gesture more, and I feel it could have been nudged quite farther here. But it depends on what feeling you’re trying to capture. Depending on your vantage, she can look demure or quite haughty.