Painted Lady

[Heidi Maiers]

Here is a fun piece I did last month just because I got the urge and wanted to experiment with multi-colored sculpture. I love everything Japanese, so I got to play God and create this imaginary woman. I know I should have enlisted a model for a more true to life portrait.
Anyway, this is about 20 inches tall and cast in FortonMG. I still need to make the base for it.
First attempt at anything multi-color and although I think it looks ok, I still prefer monocolor sculpture. I have a photo of it in the WIP section when it was all white, and I rather like it plain.
I'm also going to make some 1/2 casts of this as a wall hanging.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Heidi, this is beautiful and absolutely you did not need a model. Casting it will remind of the big chinese terracotta army, an army of perfect beauty!
I think in japanese traditional make up women only applied red lipstick in the middle of the lips, but I am not sure.
I also prefer the unpainted version, as it enhances your flawless modelling, but I think you did the right thing in painting one copy just for fun.
I am sure the piece will bew a success
Ilaria

[Heidi Maiers]

Thank you Llaria.
I've seen the lips both ways, but since I will probably keep this copy, I painted them full since I like that look better. Once I get the base made, I'll take some better photos. The contrast is way off on these ones - the patterning on the light face shows too much and the patterning on the dark hair and kimono shows too little. Hard to get a good photo on a piece that has both black and white areas.

If you want to see something really interesting, check out this video.

http://www.escultores.com/escultura.php?g2_itemId=494

It's a video made in 1954 of a sculptor sculpting an over life size bust of Abraham Lincon in about 20 minutes. Pretty remarkable.

[Claudemir Bonfim]

I loved it, and I'd love to have both the traditional and the painted ones in my home and office.

[Ngaire Winwood]

Heidi

You amaze me each and every time I see your work. Well done, she is beautiful.

[Julie Deane]

Heidi, it may have been done without a model, but one gets the sense that this is a very real human being. Beautiful work!