Modelling and Sculpture by Albert Toft

Author:Albert Toft [Toft, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486145280
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Fig. LV

A BUST IN THE ROUND, FROM WHICH THE RELIEF SHOWN HERE IS MADE

From the original bust by the Author.

One important thing to be remembered is, that every part must be of some degree of relief from the ground, and relatively correct one part to the other. An error very frequent with students working at low relief is, that they dig or cut into the background until one or other part is below the surface. In the finest examples of relief work this never occurs ; and, for this reason, I am not sure that the student, in first beginning to do low relief, would not do better modelling direct on a board or other firm surface for a background, instead of working on a soft clay slab, except that a clay model in low relief would dry and crack and then fall off. Indeed, the method is not practical, although it is followed sometimes on a slate or a piece of glass, and invariably with small work on a plaster slab the surface of which has been coated with soft-soap to stop its quick suction and yet make it sufficiently polished to cause the clay to adhere. In this latter case the clay can be kept sufficiently moist if the back of the plaster slab is sprinkled with water to keep the model in good working condition.

Then again, many very low reliefs are worked in wax on a board or plaster slab ; in the latter case this slab, when quite dry, is given two or three coats of French polish, so that the wax will adhere to it. A piece of glass or slate is sometimes used instead of the plaster slab. These substances having a somewhat polished and non-porous surface, the preparation mentioned to hold clay, wax, or plasticine is not required.

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