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CourtneyTrowbridge — figure sculpture - tambourine dancer

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Published: 2014-09-23 03:31:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1735; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 0
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Description I'm not sure what it is with me and tambourine dancers BUT I LOVE THEM.  Sort of a mash-up of Esmeralda and Arabian-ish dancers (I WISH I'd had time to sculpt a goat and a better base, but I take six classes per term).

This is the fruits of my laborious and awesome class with John Brown at Gnomon - first time doing an entire figure (and my other experience only includes two heads and one torso done ages ago in polymer clay).  I am sort of a terrible photographer, so I plan on getting my boyfriend to help me take better ones with his knowledge of lighting and whatnot, but at the least here is something to see! It's a 20" sculpt in plasticine fully armatured (with telescoping arms).  I'll try to get around to also putting up a montage of some progress shots to show a little more of how it all came together.

I want to do more and get way better!  And stop giving my girls beefy knees.

If you want to know more about John Brown I highly encourage you to google him because he's the bestestestest.
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Comments: 16

luneu [2015-02-17 16:33:32 +0000 UTC]

Woah, amazing work! It's so dynamic, and I love your attention to detail. 

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to luneu [2015-03-17 18:25:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!!! Figurative sculpting is AMAZING, and if you love drawing, I highly recommend giving it a try sometime (I was in a class, so I had lots of help and direction). It's made my drawing so much better and yeah, doing the details at the very end like hair, the face, jewelry (after you've been waiting to do it forever) is so so much fun. Thanks for your super sweet comments. <3

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luneu In reply to CourtneyTrowbridge [2015-03-17 19:05:49 +0000 UTC]

I hope I can try it out one day! But I feel like I'd be absolutely terrible with sculpting haha! It must be so hard working in 3d! 

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to luneu [2015-03-17 19:23:41 +0000 UTC]

I just looked - you can draw well so you could totally sculpt! Sure, there's a learning curve, but you'd pick it up fast.

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luneu In reply to CourtneyTrowbridge [2015-03-25 14:10:06 +0000 UTC]

You are seriously just the sweetest! <3 

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to luneu [2015-03-28 01:29:20 +0000 UTC]

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Svet11 [2015-02-01 13:40:10 +0000 UTC]

So beautiful work. Very nice🌸

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to Svet11 [2015-02-14 21:44:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!!!

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Marzie24 [2015-01-09 04:57:58 +0000 UTC]

She's so beautiful.

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to Marzie24 [2015-01-09 09:05:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, dahhhling!!

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Mebridia [2014-09-23 14:23:03 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to Mebridia [2014-10-07 19:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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aliseo85 [2014-09-23 12:08:56 +0000 UTC]

Impressive piece! So natural and dynamic, I love it.

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to aliseo85 [2014-10-07 19:08:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much!

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Clayman7 [2014-09-23 07:24:03 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant

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CourtneyTrowbridge In reply to Clayman7 [2014-10-07 19:08:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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