http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/ Welcome to the Sculpture pages!

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These Art galleries are a constant work in progress. I will be adding more images, as well as writing more about them in the future. Please feel free to check back from time to time.

There may be a little redundancy across the galleries as some images belong in more than one category.

Sculpture is a far more physically demanding process. Whereas you can suggest forms and textures in a painting you must be explicit in sculpture. There is no cheating! It's also very messy and usually requires working in an environment saturated in toxins of all kinds. Like a Makeup Effects Shop! Let's not even mention the building of armatures. Although it can be exhausting, for me the end result can be the most rewarding of all. My favorite items to display in my own house are castings of sculptures from various film projects.

The majority of the work in my career as a sculptor has been the creation of appliances for various old age and character makeups of which, unfortunately I have taken no photographs. It is hard to justify taking out the old camera and setting up the lighting to take a marvelous picture of an isolated 'forehead' or 'eye bag' as the individual elements of an elaborate makeup are all created separately and do not come together until they are applied onto an actor's face. For a few pictures of these makeups as they appeared on film please see the 'Film Characters' page. Most of what you see here is sculpted in oil based clays such as Roma Plastelina, various grades of Chavant, and of course the best water-based clay: WED. Did I mention that I hate building armatures? Armatures are the work of Satan.]]> en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.0 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:13:03 -0500 120 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/d/102-6/SCULPTURE.jpg http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/ http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/John+Carter+on+Mars-+Thark+Bust+crated.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/John+Carter+on+Mars-+Thark+Bust+crated.html
Here the lovely Mishi McCaig waits patiently as the sculpture is crated and readied to be driven up north to Pixar so that it could be insulted by John Lasseter, along with all of the other JCOM design work that was created by artists outside of Pixars's hallowed walls.]]> photo Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:16:13 -0500 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-03.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-03.jpg.html
I sculpted this bust in 2008 under the supervision of Iain McCaig as a kind of first look at what some of the main characters of JCOM might look like. I only had a few days to do this, and I didn't really have the time to finesse the anatomy or surface detail, but it turned out to be a pretty good interpretation of Iain's design, and I feel it was a strong solution to the problem of translating the rather silly and outmoded description of the Tharks in Burrough's pulps into a design palatable for modern audiences.]]> photo Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:49:50 -0600 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-05.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-05.jpg.html
I sculpted this bust in 2008 under the supervision of Iain McCaig as a kind of first look at what some of the main characters of JCOM might look like. I only had a few days to do this, and I didn't really have the time to finesse the anatomy or surface detail, but it turned out to be a pretty good interpretation of Iain's design, and I feel it was a strong solution to the problem of translating the rather silly and outmoded description of the Tharks in Burrough's pulps into a design palatable for modern audiences.]]> photo Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:50:12 -0600 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-04.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-04.jpg.html
I sculpted this bust in 2008 under the supervision of Iain McCaig as a kind of first look at what some of the main characters of JCOM might look like. I only had a few days to do this, and I didn't really have the time to finesse the anatomy or surface detail, but it turned out to be a pretty good interpretation of Iain's design, and I feel it was a strong solution to the problem of translating the rather silly and outmoded description of the Tharks in Burrough's pulps into a design palatable for modern audiences.]]> photo Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:49:30 -0600 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-01.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-01.jpg.html
I sculpted this bust in 2008 under the supervision of Iain McCaig as a kind of first look at what some of the main characters of JCOM might look like. I only had a few days to do this, and I didn't really have the time to finesse the anatomy or surface detail, but it turned out to be a pretty good interpretation of Iain's design, and I feel it was a strong solution to the problem of translating the rather silly and outmoded description of the Tharks in Burrough's pulps into a design palatable for modern audiences.]]> photo Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:49:16 -0600 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-02.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Thark+bust+web-02.jpg.html
I sculpted this bust in 2008 under the supervision of Iain McCaig as a kind of first look at what some of the main characters of JCOM might look like. I only had a few days to do this, and I didn't really have the time to finesse the anatomy or surface detail, but it turned out to be a pretty good interpretation of Iain's design, and I feel it was a strong solution to the problem of translating the rather silly and outmoded description of the Tharks in Burrough's pulps into a design palatable for modern audiences.]]> photo Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:46:00 -0600 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-08.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-08.html ]]> photo Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:52 -0500 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-07-web.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-07-web.jpg.html ]]> photo Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:10 -0500 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-06-web.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-06-web.jpg.html ]]> photo Tue, 10 May 2011 06:28:53 -0500 http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-05-web.jpg.html http://www.milesteves.com/gallery/v/SCULPTURE/Glyptodont-05-web.jpg.html ]]> photo Tue, 10 May 2011 06:29:28 -0500