The Paisan sketches
Paisan is a very, very cool horse. She has a lot of self confidence and she is also very young in mind. I decided to suggest to create her as a cool teenager, standing upright with crosses arms (forelegs). After … Read More
Paisan is a very, very cool horse. She has a lot of self confidence and she is also very young in mind. I decided to suggest to create her as a cool teenager, standing upright with crosses arms (forelegs). After … Read More
The hollow horse is almost ready. There has been a lot of work because it is not easy to work with hollow forms in polymer clay. I used papier maché to stabilize the horse’s body during the curing, and I … Read More
As the Hollow Horse will be a quite strange horse, it is important that he head is quite natural. Here you can see it almost half finished – yet I haven’t made any ears and the mane is also still … Read More
As I explained in the previous blog post I wanted to make a horse sculpture with a hollow body. And in the body there should be another horse. You can see it in this picture. It is a small and … Read More
When I participated in the polymer clay conference EuroSynergy2 in Bordeaux this summer I got the idea I wanted to make a hollow horse. I got the inspiration from the 3D challenge, where I understood that you could use ordinary … Read More
It has been a very exciting journey to create these horseshoes. The starting point and the material was so totally different from what I usually use Usually I make all the artistic decisions during the creation myself, and I begin … Read More
It may seem simple, but every detail of a work of art is carefully designed to fit into the big picture. Before I make a new detail of a sculpture, I have tried it a hundred times in my mind. … Read More
Normally, the two shoes that you have on your feet look the same. But in this case, where I create a work of art, I have more freedom to make something different, to make something with another expression than an … Read More
The weirder the horse I create, the more careful I am with the head and face of the horse. Here you can see the shoe and horse head from the front. I have put a lot of time to sculpt … Read More
I had got a little of the planning for free from the Mosebacke Horse sculpture Thoughtful that I already had done. I had already thought about the similarities between a high-heeled shoe and a horse. Now, my aim was to … Read More