Pictures to Come

I began another baby recently. I cannot remember now when I started the head, but I finally finished it this past weekend. It took me awhile to finish because I fussed over the face for hours as usual. Yesterday I finished up the legs, so this little one sits on my desk all positioned in a stuffed outfit with no arms yet. Poor thing. :)

Hopefully today I will manage to get some arms made. I will post pictures as soon as I can. I am finally able to do that now... back up and running with my Photoshop program.

Computer Issues

I have not been able to post any photos of what I have been doing lately because the computer with all my photos has been freezing up on me. Luckily, I have two hard drives and had everything backed up on there. Yesterday I was forced to wipe the main drive and reinstall windows. I am still trying to get all the Windows updates on there and then all the software. Hopefully I'll be able to share some photos soon.

I did sculpt a new head which I thought I was going to use for a mini resin reproduction, but decided in the end that it just wasn't what I was looking for. Inbetween that, I've been working on a course that I have been taking. It is a forensic facial reconstruction class. We each had to get a lifesize human skull, (reproduction of one), to work on. It has been very interesting and quite amazing to do. I will share pictures of that as well once I get back to the computer with all the photos.

Alexander

After a few unforseen unrelated delays, I now can finally present Alexander...

He is 9 inches long with 1/2 arms and full legs. He has newborn grey/blue glass eyes. After studying little Sam for hours, I sculpted this face to give that kind of expression a newborn has when studying his surroundings.

He is now available for sale on my website at: http://www.nataliescholl.com/Alexander2.html

I had planned on getting him up earlier, but my computer is being a little defiant and did not want to move at the pace I was wanting to. ;o)

Clothing Time for the New Baby

I finally finished putting together my new little one last night... LATE last night. I always seem to be most creative at night. I don't know why that is. Of course I also had to make a diaper right away... necessities first. ;o) Today is clothing day and then I will be able to do his/her first photo shoot. I am leaning towards boy on this baby, but I am still not 100% convinced. I need to lay some fabrics on it to decide.

I had been wanting to sculpt more today on another baby, but it is very hot and humid today and the clay just melts in my hands. I had the air conditioner off, but it is on now and hopefully later it will be cool enough to get back to the clay. That is, if I'm not too busy posing the new baby and photographing. ;o)

Almost Finished

Another night spent sculpting into the wee hours of the morning. I did manage to finish a set of legs for this open eyed baby though, so now I just need to finish the arms and it will be ready for sanding/painting and then assembly. I used little Sam's legs as a guide for these and will do the same for the arms. It really does help to have a real baby around to "inspect". ;o)

Hopefully soon I will be posting with some pictures of my newest little one.

One Head Down, One to Go!

I have just put my head with open eyes in the oven. That took a lot more time to complete than I thought it would. I changed the face more times than I can even count because I was just not satisfied with it. I am also trying to get another head done at the moment... and of course, I will need 8 limbs to go along with them. So lots more work ahead of me in the next few days. At least with one head done, I finally feel like I'm making progress.

As of late, my days here have been filled with holding and playing with a 7 week old and sculpting by night. I'm trying to memorize every crease on his body, every curve of his head for my sculpting before he gets too big to use as a guide for my newborns. I marvel at every tiny feature on this little guy, and wish I could "sculpt" like that. =)

Stranger

I feel like a stranger at this point on my own blog. I have been away for so long. It has been a busy spring to say the least. Spring seemed to take awhile to settle in and then when it finally did warm up, it was all entirely too fast with hot, sticky days. The temperatures have been up to 40 degrees celcius with the humidity, (104 fahrenheit); which is extremely warm for here, especially this time of year. It makes it difficult to work with my clay when it is so warm because the clay just seems to melt to the touch and doesn't hold the finer details as much as I would like. I have been working slowly on a new head during the times when it is cooler. Hopefully I will be able to finish it soon so that I'll have some news to report and some pictures to share.