Painted Lady

[Heidi Maiers]

Thank you for your kind comments Claudemir, Ngaire, Julie, and Alexandra. I try to do something experimental with every piece I make - still, it is always better to work from a model otherwise I start sculpting what I think I know rather than what is real.

Here is something I just started that is much darker and true to life than the last fun piece. It is a self portrait. I like to do one every 5 or 10 years because it's great practice and good for progress comparisons to earlier years. I will probably leave this one fairly rough, but it still has a ways to go.

[Heidi Maiers]

Just for fun, although I hate showing these old things, here is proof positive that I was born with no talent at all and that everything I have learned so far has come from years of practice, practice, practice, and observation.
Hopefully, in 5 years I will look back at this latest one and think it hideous as these first two examples. I think the dates on these are 1980, 2000, and 2006.

[Tom Edgerton]

Fantastic!

Love the oriental piece, with the "Painted Lady" pun--assuming that IS a Painted Lady in her hair.

Thanks so much also, for the gallery of self-portraits...it's a true lesson that all good work comes from struggle and that there aren't any shortcuts. But the comparison over time from the beginning to the mature style should inspire that to get better, one has to stay with it...that the action teaches itself over and over.

It's great to have some accomplished 3-D'ers posting here. You're the real thing.

[Heidi Maiers]

Tom, aren't you the observant one! Nothing gets by you I think.
So true that you have to stick with anything for years if you ever want to master it. I see so many people get frustrated and give up - I have felt like that often enough. Who says stubborness and tenacity are bad qualities? Sometimes, it's all that keeps you coming back (eventually).

[Allan Rahbek]

Heidi,
thank you for showing your beautiful work as well as your progression. I am also fascinated by Japanese art.
Found some of your models in a book of mine.