- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.; 1st edition edition (Oct 1979)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0823030989
- ISBN-13: 978-0823030989
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,239,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Creative techniques step-by-step. This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end.
In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can see exactly how he positions and models every detail.
In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can see exactly how he positions and models every detail.
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Before we begin the demonstration, let's take a look at the tools and materials we'll be using to model a head in clay. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book that shows you, via numerous photographs, how a clay sculpture is actually made. The book starts with detailed photographs of different types of sculpture that whet your excitement. It then moves to defining the tools and supplies that are going to used in the rest of the book. The greatest part of the book is the detailed step by step photographic illustration of what happens during each part of building the sculpture. It is really exciting to see how the model is transformed between its various stages. I learned more from this one book than 2 adult- evening sculpture classes(that cost $300+)from the local Art college. This book is worth the investment!
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book (along with several others) while taking a class in sculpture. I found it to be the most informative and inspiring of any source, including my sculpture teacher. Using a series of close-up, detailed photographs, the book walks the student through the steps of creating a clay head. I followed them and made a good (for me) sculpture of a man's head and later a bust of a woman. I went on to make other clay faces, incorporated into mugs and pots. I don't pretend to be a great sculptor but, thanks to this book, I am able to make recognizable sculptures. The excellent directions include how to control surface texture using water and a brush; it is possible to make clay look like skin. If you are struggling to bring clay to life, this book doesn't just tell you how, it shows you how.
Randall Black
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book after reading the good reviews and it is everything and more I expected. An absolutely brilliant book. The photos are truly helpful and inspiring and I can't wait to get back to making my next piece.
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Sculpting a Head
This was my first book on sculpting a head so naturally I was a little nervous as to whether it would give me all the information I needed to allow me to "improve" my existing... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Heather
Sculpture
This book and the others in this series are excellent introductions to making sculptue in clay for firing or for moulding. Read more
Published 24 months ago by M. Longley
watching a master at work...
From showing how Bruno Lucchesi makes his own armature, step by step to the finished head in clay, this book is a class act. Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2009 by barney slade
Excellent for modelling
I agree that the artist is inspiring and brilliant and photos are good for modelling techniques. But what the book does not cover are practical things like hollowing out, firing... Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2008 by Jude
Helpful for you who sculpture in clay
This book is a long joyful ride with photographs of an artwork in progress. The author take you along with one female bust from scratch to a ready bust in clay. Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2008 by Lena Wennberg
Magnificent
Lucchesi has Italian origins and that pervades his sculptural style as well as his methods. Like the Renaissance artists, he begins by modelling the amazing bone structure in clay,... Read more
Published on 5 July 2006 by J. Ward
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