, costs about $100-140 and is well worth it. I’ve burned up seven ordinary $25 glue guns in the past two years. This orange beast can effortlessly put out several pounds of glue a minute. It requires specific shaped glue sticks available in 11-pound boxes. You can find great deals on the web.Auckland Dragon day 1
[Note: For Kim's latest demonstration she is creating a large dragon in clay, live in public, in the center court of the Westfield shopping mall in Manukau City, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. (Here's the Westfield mall on Google Maps.) Kim will be sculpting every day from June 28th to July 10th, starting at 10 AM daily.]
The beginning of the Auckland demonstration. As you can see in the background, the mall management really dressed up the stage very nicely, far moreso than I thought possible.
I’m doing this demonstration by myself. I have two weeks, and that can be done pretty easily alone. It’s a shame — it is so much more fun to have people helping out! But if it’s done too quickly, I’ll run out of work.
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Auckland Dragon day 2
[Note: For Kim's latest demonstration she is creating a large dragon in clay, live in public, in the center court of the Westfield shopping mall in Manukau City, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. (Here's the Westfield mall on Google Maps.) Kim will be sculpting every day from June 28th to July 10th, starting at 10 AM daily.]
The dragon after day 2. I have gotten the other arm and neck on the other side done and begun on the head. This picture shows the wrist is still a bit small and the biceps are dull. I’ll fix these tomorrow.
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Auckland Dragon Day 6
[Note: For Kim's latest demonstration she is creating a large dragon in clay, live in public, in the center court of the Westfield shopping mall in Manukau City, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. (Here's the Westfield mall on Google Maps.) Kim will be sculpting every day from June 28th to July 10th, starting at 10 AM daily.]
A good day sculpting. The anatomy is nearly established; I am working on balancing the volumes so the legs don’t look too massive or the head too tiny. I started on the spine scales, but they’re not yet pointing quite the right direction.
It’s good to review the pictures at the end of each day. They give me a fresh perspective on the shapes and lines of flow that are hard to see while I’m on the stage.
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Auckland Dragon Day 7
[Note: For Kim's latest demonstration she is creating a large dragon in clay, live in public, in the center court of the Westfield shopping mall in Manukau City, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. (Here's the Westfield mall on Google Maps.) Kim will be sculpting every day from June 28th to July 10th, starting at 10 AM daily.]
I have begun on the shoulder scales, so the character of the dragon is becoming apparent. This will be a a brightly scaled figure, mostly because it reads better from a distance. Without color, the detail has to be pretty agressive to make up for it.
A good day’s work!
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Kim Graham interview on “Studio 2 Live”
Kim Graham recently completed a two-week sculpture demonstration at Westfield shopping mall in Manukau City, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Near the end of the demo, New Zealand children’s TV show Studio 2 Live sent host Dayna Vawdrey to interview Kim for a three-minute segment called “Awesome Job: Sculptor.” Watch Kim sculpt and teach!
