Teenagers are a great motivator for creativity.
Lately,I have been doing more drawing and sculpting for show, new for me. I'm doing observational drawings of live models, clay sketches, papier mache' forms , and finally drawings of the final piece. Students think this is overkill, but I find that this method turns me into an expert of a particular form and therefore can express that form more accurately to conform with the image in my mind. However,with all this repetition, there is a point when the images of that form becomes stylized or too comfortable. M.A.T. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma.1989 Click on any of the thumbnails above to bring up a larger picture of each item.