Artist's Blog
Small Scale, Big Impact: The Art of Maquettes and Miniature Figures
Before a monument, there is the maquette — a small model where an idea first takes form. A look at miniature figures, how sculptors scale them up, and why small...
Small Scale, Big Impact: The Art of Maquettes and Miniature Figures
Before a monument, there is the maquette — a small model where an idea first takes form. A look at miniature figures, how sculptors scale them up, and why small...
The Influence of Rodin's Shadow on Sculptors Working Today
More than a century after his death, Auguste Rodin still shapes how sculptors build the human figure. A look at his revolution — and the long shadow it casts on...
The Influence of Rodin's Shadow on Sculptors Working Today
More than a century after his death, Auguste Rodin still shapes how sculptors build the human figure. A look at his revolution — and the long shadow it casts on...
Stone, Bronze, or Resin? Choosing the Right Material for Figurative Work
Stone, bronze, and resin each carry their own logic of weight, motion, and permanence. A sculptor's guide to how the material you choose shapes a figurative work before the first...
Stone, Bronze, or Resin? Choosing the Right Material for Figurative Work
Stone, bronze, and resin each carry their own logic of weight, motion, and permanence. A sculptor's guide to how the material you choose shapes a figurative work before the first...
The Difference Between Fine Art Sculpture and "Craft" Sculpture: A Working Artist's View
Where does the line between fine art sculpture and craft actually sit? A working ceramic sculptor traces the history from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century clay revolutions, and offers the test...
The Difference Between Fine Art Sculpture and "Craft" Sculpture: A Working Artist's View
Where does the line between fine art sculpture and craft actually sit? A working ceramic sculptor traces the history from Renaissance Florence to twentieth-century clay revolutions, and offers the test...
The Armature Beneath: Building the Skeleton of a Sculpture
Every hand-built figurative sculpture starts with an armature — the hidden wire frame that decides pose, weight, and gesture long before any clay arrives. A sculptor's look at what lives...
The Armature Beneath: Building the Skeleton of a Sculpture
Every hand-built figurative sculpture starts with an armature — the hidden wire frame that decides pose, weight, and gesture long before any clay arrives. A sculptor's look at what lives...
Beyond Realism: How Abstraction Transformed the Human Figure
For nearly two thousand years sculptors chased likeness. Then, in the early twentieth century, the human figure quietly began to do something else — and never quite came back.
Beyond Realism: How Abstraction Transformed the Human Figure
For nearly two thousand years sculptors chased likeness. Then, in the early twentieth century, the human figure quietly began to do something else — and never quite came back.