Bowie and Bowman

 So I've caught the sculpting bug again and have been cracking on with trying to nudge my work into different territory.

  Its funny. Years ago (possibly 5 or 6 of 'em) I was given a souvenir postcard by an art teacher for an exhibition for the German artist Thomas Schutte as someone I should look into for artist research to go in my sketchbook for school. He intrigued me but unfortunately, being young, I didn't heed the hint and filed it away in the rather lacklustre artist research section in my sketchbook and rather forgot about it.
 
 Now several years on I find myself remembering Schutte and more to the point find his work having a felt influence on my current work.
 How long this influence will last I don't know, but its intriguing nonetheless.

(Above: [no title] 1994 by Thomas Schutte)

(Above: "This Is Not Bowie" by myself)

(Above: "Bowman" by myself)

A really fascinating and exciting experiment and something I feel I may continue.

The figures are simply sculpted heads suspended by five or six kebab skewers with material draped around the structures to give an impression of a figure which is what Schutte uses in his much larger sculptures.

(Above: Pegleg)

Thanks for reading, more to come...

I owe you an Update.

So! I've been away for a while and neglected this blog, which isn't nice by any stretch of the imagination.
In recent news I've had a couple pictures of a sculpture I made chosen to be shown at the San Diego Comic Con, which is rather exciting.
Alas I haven't been offered free tickets to fly over and see it but thats life unfortunately.
The pictures in question were a couple of a caricaturial sculpture of Peter Capaldi as the soon-to-be 12th Doctor Who. These will be shown on a screen displaying other fan artwork at the Doctor Who booth at the convention with footfall of a couple hundred people at least.
A nice thing indeed.

I've also been getting back into sculpting in a big way, keeping my hand in as it were.

Here are a few examples of what I've done over the recent months...

         

(Above: A sculpt of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor to be included in a book which will be sent to the man himself)

(Above: Parker from Thunderbirds)

                                                        (Above: La Roux/Elly Jackson)

(Above: Peter Capaldi)

And now a couple things on the boil.

(Above: Gary Oldman as George Smiley)

(Above: David Bowie)

I was also recently in Italy for a couple weeks and spent a fair bit of that time drawing and focusing on expressions and caricature drawing.

Not entirely sure why, but it has been an area I've always been fascinated by.

Here is a spattering of some of the drawings.

Richie and Eddie (Bottom)

Simon Pegg (The World's End)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 

Ilana Glazer (Broad City)

Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)

La Roux

Alan Partridge

Anyway thats just about it for this update, I should have more interesting stuff to talk about in the coming weeks with several projects soon to be entering early pre-production.

Thanks for watching, more to come....