Building An Armature And Sculpting A Head In The Round. In the previous lessons, weve talked quite a bit about the skull as an underlying structure that informs the skin on top of it. The entire skeleton works that wayfrom your baby toe to your hip to your forearmyour entire system of bones is a structure that helps to hold and shape your skin. An armature works in the same way. Imagine that the armature is a skeleton and the clay is skin. Here are the topics well be discussing Exercise 1 Armatures. Mike Shannons DALLASFORT WORTH FM STATION HISTORY 19462005 Some fringe and rimshot stations are shown depending upon signal strength and location. Andrew Loomis Head Hands' title='Andrew Loomis Head Hands' />The Basic Forms. To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic structure. Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. For the past couple of months Ive been working through the beginning stages of Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis. Theres any number of books out there. The list of top 100 ActionThriller movies Here we gathered the best actionthriller movies of the world. They are sorted by IMDb rating. This top 100 action. What Is An Armature And Why Do I Need One Armatures In Art History. Constructing The Armature. Exercise 2 Sculpt A Head. Exercise 3 Add Details And Finish Your Sculpture. In this lesson, youll be learning about and creating an armature, the skeleton for many sculptures. Youll then sculpt this head in Exercise 2, learning from our sculptor Kent Kidwell in a 4. Alice in Wonderland 2010 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Andrew%20Loomis%20Drawing%20the%20Head%20and%20Hands%20%28potrace%29-42.png' alt='Andrew Loomis Head Hands' title='Andrew Loomis Head Hands' />This is the longest sculpture lesson yet, and we expect that reading and understanding the textparticularly the various proportionsand completing this sculpture will take at least 1. Take your time, dont rush, and if you need to stop you can. Work as long as you feel comfortable, taking appropriate breaks. When you do take an extended break, make sure you move your sculpture to somewhere safe so that it doesnt get knocked over. Since youre using the recommended plastiline clay, theres no need to cover your sculpture or keep it moist like you would with ceramic clay. Be sure to refer to our Nourish Flourish section for tips if you plan to work for several hours at a time. Exercise One Armatures. Exercise 1 consists of first reading the text below about armatures, their use, and how to construct one. Then, you will watch the first 1 2. Kent constructs his armature. In Exercise Two, we recommend you watch the video in its entirety before you try to begin sculpting. This will help give you a better sense of what it is youre going to be doing. Once youve done that, you can move on and begin sculpting along with Kent as you watch the video a second time. Andrew Loomis Head Hands' title='Andrew Loomis Head Hands' />If you like, you can always open the You. Tube video in a separate tab in your browser to make it simpler to switch back and forth between the video and the text in our lesson. To do this, simply click the You. Tube button in the lower right hand corner of the video thats in the lesson. This will open the video in a new tab on You. Tube. We recommend watching the video in full screen mode. For more information on You. Tube, see our Being A Successful Student post. We also recommend students particularly non English speakers and those with hearing challenges watch the videos with the closed captions turned on. For information on You. Tubes Closed Captioning, see this post here. Here are images of the bust at the end of exercise two and exercise three What Is An Armature And Why Do I Need One An armature is a rigid framework that provides support and stability to a sculpture. It is mostly used in large sculptures that are made of a soft material like clay to keep it from slumping over if you take out your clay and roll a long log then try to stand it on its end, youll notice how it has a hard time remaining upright. Armatures can be made of a variety of materials, but the most common is a basic metal structure, but wood can also be used. Sometimes an armature is meant to stay inside the sculpture, as is the case with large plaster or concrete sculptures. For this type of sculpture, an armature of chicken wire would be made first, then fabric dipped in plaster is laid over the top to prevent plaster from dropping through the holes in the chicken wire. I found this great Instructables lesson on sculpting a large gecko out of concrete. Games Microsoft-Train Simulator. The artist, Al Shaper, documented the process step by step. Lets take a look at his metal armature This is the basic armature, made out of welded steel bars. You can see on the leg and part of the tail where the artist is beginning to add chicken wire. Here, the armature has more chicken wire over the metal bars. You can see more pictures and the end result of this large gecko here http www. Makng a concrete gecko 7. Other armatures are designed to come out of the sculpture. Some clay sculptures are initially held up with a metal armature and wadded up newspaper, which are then removed before the firing process. Leftover paper pieces will burn out in the kiln, but the metal must be removed to prevent damage to the piece because metal wont burn, it expands when it is heated which is the opposite of clay, which shrinks when heated. The combination of these two things can cause the clay piece to explode in the kiln during the firing process. When you finish your full bust and move on to making a Basic Two Part Silicone Mold, youll make a mold of your finished piece then remove the armature by, well, destroying your original clay piece. But dont worryyoull have a mold of your completed piece that you can keep forever. Heres an example of what an armature for a full figure looks like next to a sculpture on that armature Sculpture House Armature from Dick. Blick. com Sculpture House is a registered trademark. Heidi Maiers armature. Later on in this lesson, youll be sculpting a full head. Now you might think that you dont need an armature for that because the head is round and theres nothing to flop over. Thats sort of rightunless you want to add a neck. The neck is fairly thin compared to the head, and the weight of the clay used to build the head will cause the neck to bend and warp in ways that are more flamingo than human. Its also helpful to create an armature for your headeven if you dont plan on adding a neckbecause it will keep the head off your table and allow you to view it in the round 3. Armature Supplies. Floor flange. Steel pipe. Pipe Fittings. Heres an example of these pieces being used in a sculpture armature from our video on sculpting a bust Remember that this armature will stay in your sculpture as long as you keep it around, so if youre making multiple pieces at once, make sure you have enough armatures to support all of them. Once you make a mold of your sculpture, you can tear it apart and reuse the clay and armature to make another masterpieceIts helpful to have a power drill when youre making armatures. Sure, you can screw the floor flange into your board with a manual screwdriver, but its much easier with a power drill Consider borrowing one or renting it for an hour or two from a local home improvement store. Small power drills like this one can be purchased for around 1. Armatures In Art History. Before you sighgreat, another art history lessonIll be brief about this. If you remember back to our Brief History of Sculpture lesson, we talk about how sculpture went from being very blocky to more free standing. Khafre, from Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV, ca. BCE. Diorite, approx. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Doryphoros Spear Bearer, Polykleitos, Roman copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original of ca. BCE, 6 1. 1 high. Museo Nazionale, Naples. By Gautier Poupeau from Paris, France Rplique du doryphore de Polyclte CC BY 2. Wikimedia Commons. Both of these are stone sculptures and even though they are stone, they still need support to keep from breaking. 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