Celebrating the Cocker Spaniel Friend

 Making the detailed portrait sculpture of the head of the dog friend Chester

Joel has been commissioned to make this sculpture to be cast in bronze.

Here the lovely original

Building up the key profile of the armature

More work towards the profile and changes to the ears

next to work on  the details of nose, and eyebrows

Here the head line is being developed and the width of the nose too

Work is paused on the ears until the widths of cheeks are set

You can see the reference pins in place

Here the key image again

Still a little more of that lovely shaped head to do...

More work on the key points

Working on the details of expression and hair

The distinctive curls of hair round the back of the head

 Right side details developing

And looking down

 A good series of sessions on the characteristic features of the hair

on the nose, near the eye and eyebrows, ears

 and the start of the back of the neck

Notice how the ears tuck closely in to the face

This all needs working in adding and even finer details added.