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The Sculptor's Bible: The All-media Reference to Surface Effects and How to Achieve Them
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Product Description
This is a comprehensive guide to sculpting techniques in various media, from marble and concrete to bronze, wood and resin. Each media merits its own section with a step-by-step guide to core techniques, as well as swatches demonstrating the vast array of textural and surface effects that can be created with each material. This will be an essential reference tool for both student and professional sculptors.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #291554 in Books
- Published on: 2005-02-03
- Original language: English
- Binding: Spiral-bound
- 256 pages
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About the Author
John Plowman is a sculptor who has exhibited widely in Europe. He currently lectures in Sculpture at London's Morley College and is the author of two previous books on sculpting.
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It's all on the surface
Not so much a bible, more like an epistle or even a Deuteronomy. Plowman, or his publisher, or both, are being quite presumptuous that his writing will be taken as the valued final authoritative truth on the subject of sculpture... it won't be. The book is small sized, ring bound, glossy paper, smallish colour photos with associated concise blocks of text. You may anticipate that it is going to be a comprehensive wide ranging study of sculpture... it is not... it has only one subject matter... surface effects on sculpture and how to create them. There are 350 texture swatches, rather like a paint manufacturer's colour chart, usually three per page, arranged in sections under the headings of stone, wood, metal, fired clay, plaster, resin, cements, with a short practical method, step by step, of achieving them. There are a few interludes of actual sculptures as examples, but some of these recycled photos have appeared before in Plowman's other books... a kind of economy that is rather disappointing? It is a practical book that is almost certain to introduce you to a patina, paint, stain, varnish, punching, polishing, impressing, and waxing that you haven't met before, but that assumes that you prefer the artificial to the natural state. Your choice. []
