Oil on canvas
For a few weeks, I became pre-occupied with drawing the pelvic bones and I bought a plastic pelvis off e-bay. Below is a 'blind drawing' of a pelvis. (my drawing is so bad, I may as well draw blind!!)
I made some out of salt dough and then made one out of steel. This was really challenging. I used cardboard and a glue gun to make cardboard models to try and get the shape right but it ended up looking nothing like a pelvis! My tutor said it looked like a ram's head. Hmmm......back to the drawing board.
After this, the pelvis left me for a few months, only to return at the end of my course. It feels like I have turned full circle, after working with beeswax for my beehive sculpture, I have just completed making a silicone rubber mould of the plastic pelvis and made one out of beeswax. So finally, I got there.
During the summer, I managed to drop the pelvis and it broke into several pieces. In the second photo, I melted some of the parts together onto a plinth.
