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1st Joggles Class click here 3rd Joggles Class click here

Okay, here we go! It's May 1st, and below are some incredible pieces in progress and a few incredible pieces done!!!

Tanya's beautiful pieces! Wow!

Here's Christine's piece redlined, and her cool fey hands!

Here's Michelle's mermaid in progress. Click on the images below - so cool!

Wow! It's already April 26th, 2005!!! How time flies when we're having fun! Below are Christine's fabulous piece in progress photos!

Hi Ranie, Michelle and Everyone! It's Sunday, April 4th.

Below are redlines for Ranie and Michelle:

This is a cute little head Ranie.

Michelle, she's really elfin, or fae looking, not alien at all!

March 19, 2005

Hi Donna and Everyone!

Below are some redlines for Donna's fabulous head per her request (as always :)):

And for Michelle regarding a sitting figure:

March 15, 2005

Hi Ranie and Everyone!

Below are Ranie's preliminary heads. They're cute, but Ranie wants them to look younger and fuller, so I redlined them below.

Updated March 5, 2005

Okay, so here is the page for the February 2005 joggles.com class!

I'll post images here of the work of students and redlined work and armature ideas and solutions, etc.

Here is Rita's mermaid armature! Keep those images coming! Click on the thumbnails to view a larger image:

I kept some anatomy stuff from the September 2004 class that is at the bottom of this page. I'm making a page per class, with hyperlinks to each class, so all stuff from each class is available to the next, thereby building the knowledge base. Feel free to check these pages as they progress and to ask me any questions in the forum so all can see them.

Below is how I made a sitting armature for Tanya.

Don't be afraid of the medium. Play with the wire and bend and shape and change the position. Play with your doll/sculpture all the way through, trying out new poses and new possibilities.

No real measurements are needed, just eyeballing it works fine, unless you need it to be of a certain size. Learn proportions and create your body accordingly. Below this set of images is one on anatomy from Loomis with a hyperlink to the books available free online.

Okay, so take a long piece of wire, around 24" to 30" or so, give or take, eyeball it if you wish, bend it in the middle and twist where the torso will be, in the upper top third of the wire closest to the bend.

Hi All - keep scrolling down for different armatures and other issues addressed in the class.

Here's an Andrew Loomis anatomy age comparison from http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=899 - this is distributed free page by page. This is an invaluable resource!

- Here is a simple base stabilizing method - very cheap and easy. I used one of my injured pieces that I haven't repaired in a year or so as the piece or armature being held. It's simply a dowel stuck into florist foam, or it can be put into the other foam, or a hole can be drilled into a piece of wood and glued in there.

So there you have it. I didn't even anchor the wire with Aves, but wrapped it around the dowel and then wrapped corsage tape around it. This is a super easy way to make a stand to hold your armature while you work with it. You may, however, have to weight the base down somewhat. Using masking tape, you can tape the foam onto a piece of wood or metal to weigh it down.