Tuesday Nights...

...will be on summer vacation for the month of August. See you in September! In the meantime, I'm working on a bust for the museum figures company in Baltimore and a repair job on a lovely little Blessed Mother sculpture whose hands have seen better days. I am always grateful for the work that I get, even when I grumble about being overwhelmed! It's feast or famine in this line of work and this feast is certainly welcome after a very hungry summer.

In the meantime, class is going well. We're working hard on our self-portraits and doing a little bit of self-discovery in the meantime. I'll get some pictures up soon.

In Print

An image of my sculpture of the Virgin Annunciate is in the current issue of Dappled Things.*

*Dappled Things is a new literary magazine dedicated to providing a space for young writers to engage the literary world from a Catholic perspective. The magazine is committed to quality writing that takes advantage of the religious, theological, philosophical, artistic, cultural, and literary heritage of the Catholic Church in order to inform and enrich contemporary literary culture. Dappled Things pledges complete faithfulness to the teachings of the Catholic Church as expressed by the Bishop of Rome and the Church's Magisterium.

From Drawing to Sculpture

Last week's drawing inspired me to make a bas-relief of Leda and the Swan. This image shows the work in process.

Consider the poem by W.B. Yeats:

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still

Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed

By his dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,

He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

How can anybody, laid in that white rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins, engenders there

The broken wall, the burning roof and tower

And Agamemnon dead.

Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,

Did she put on his knowledge with his power

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

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Tuesday Night

Every Tuesday night we get together and draw. We hire different models, some are nude, some wear costumes. We always have fun and sometimes produce some good drawings. I'll try to post some of the drawings that I've done. This is from last night: