The Red Knight

Here is a 75 mm Latorre figure I just painted. I was inspired to paint mine after seeing David Hood's version at the last Chicago Show. I don't get to paint many just for me so this one was fun to do. Painted mainly with acrylics but I got into using some oils for the groundwork and also for weathering the figure. I also added the wood grain with paint to the inside of the shield. I'll have this one at the Atlanta Show where it will be available for sale.

George Washington 1776

Here is the completed piece. I hope you like it. Not sure if this is exactly how he looked, but I think it's partly fact and partly the way I imagine him.

GW- Final Stretch

Some updated pics. Nearing completion, now. I've got to finish the pony tail and do final clean-up. Comments certainly welcomed!

Matt

GW Sculpt Update 1/27/08

More progress on this one..............

GW Sculpt Update - 1/21/08

Here is the new bust as it stands tonight.

GW Sculpt Update 1/03/08

Happy New Year!

Here are some further pics on the Washington portrait. I am using a number of sources for reference, but my main source is the great bust sculpted by the great sculptor Houdon. The forms are starting to come together a bit now as I continue trying to match the volumes of his unique and very well known face. I've been reading a bit about the drawing concept of Chiaroscuro whereby volumes are depicted by the depth and placement of shadows. I've found that some of these principles are helping me with sculpting from 2 dimensional images.

The ears are only for form and will be covered by his hair/wig later............

Thanks for looking!

George Washington Sculpt

Crude and still very early in the process, but work has begun on my newest donation piece to the Artist Preservation Group. This will be another 250mm bust this time of American Founding Father, first President and national hero, George Washington. I hope to convey his intense look as he might have appeared when crossing the Delaware River that Christmas Eve in 1776 for their attack on the sleeping-drunken Hessians at the Battle of Trenton.