'Cheeky Monkey' Portrait - Anäiss

This is a painting I did in Alton Park during a 'Cheeky Monkey' Family Fun Day

a couple of weeks ago. 

Highly Sprung

 Pencil study 

Old Olympian

Need to get cracking and get find more of my portrait drawings amongst the tons of life drawings I've drawn.  This is a drawing of someone who had swam in the Olympics many moons ago. Chris still has the strong hands and shoulders of a swimmer. 

SIREN SISTER

This  five foot four inch statue of a mermaid  caused some controversy despite her innocent and serene demeanour. 
Everyone seems to know what these mythical creatures look like and were very keen to tell me. 

In England and America they are depicted with fish tails,elsewhere, they have legs with fins like the Copenhagen mermaid. 

I made the lower half of the body fuller so that it looked more womanly.  A Dutchman sharply observed that 'even mermaids in England are overweight.' 
Mermaids or sirens were blamed for luring sailors to their death at sea. In land they were depicted on signs for places of ill repute to lure men. 
'Silly boys' 

HEAD STRONG

Firstly, I sculpted this life size portrait in clay.  I then made a plaster mould which I filled with black slate resin. Finally I polished and mounted the cast head on a granite base which i got from local stone mason Steve Knight of
Gra-Knight in Medstead . 

CONTEMPLATION

This is life size portrait bust which I cast in plaster and mounted on a stone plinth.  I am coming to the conclusion that sculpture looks better, in most cases, without a mount which can become such a palaver to sort out. 

Opening a Plaster Mould

GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY