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labricoleuseIf you follow the collective costume rendering blog A Sketch A Day, you've already seen my series of renderings of Commedia dell'Arte mask designs in oil pastel. (If not, you can see them all here, and read about the conception process and inspirations, if you wish.)
Essentially, one of my summer projects is the design and creation of a set of six stock-character Commedia masks, an endeavor in which i will be assisted by two of my graduate students with crafts emphasis in their field of study. I chronicled the sketching over in that blog for obvious topical reasons, and now that we're embarking on the sculpting process, i'm going to document that here on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
labricoleuse. Once the designs are confirmed, I'll sculpt them from polymer clay in 1/3-scale as maquettes; then my students and i will each take two maquettes and scale them up to full size matrix sculptures, which we'll use to create the masks themselves.
There are at present a collection of twelve sketches, which we will narrow to the final six. I thought it'd be fun to run a poll and see which six might be "audience favorites", so here we go!
The gist is, below you will find twelve images, each labeled with a number and name in a caption underneath. Beneath that is a tickybox poll, in which you may select your favorites. You can pick fewer than six if you like. Technically, you can choose as many as you like, but try to limit yourself to six or fewer, for the sake of the poll. I think that only LiveJournal accountholders can vote in their polls, so if you are a non-LJ reader and find you can't submit your choices through the poll code, I invite you to comment with the names/numbers of your favorites.
1. Smeraldina
2. Il Capitano
3. Il Dottore
4. Zerbinette
5. Leandro
6. Cintia
7. Brighella
8. Coviello
9. Pantalone
10. Truffaldino
11. Tartaglia
12. Worried Zanni
[Poll #1565458]
I may be off the grid for a couple of days, as i'm heading out tomorrow for SPESA-Expo 2010 in Atlanta, which i'll be blogging about at week's end. I am super-excited to check out all the exhibitors of equipment, dyestuffs, software, and other products for the international sewn-products industries! Maybe i'll discover the next Fosshape...
I'll be back in the studio by Friday and ready to start the maquettes, so you've got that long to cast your votes before production begins on these. Again, if you don't have an LJ account, please feel free to comment with your choices either here or over on Facebook!
Essentially, one of my summer projects is the design and creation of a set of six stock-character Commedia masks, an endeavor in which i will be assisted by two of my graduate students with crafts emphasis in their field of study. I chronicled the sketching over in that blog for obvious topical reasons, and now that we're embarking on the sculpting process, i'm going to document that here on
labricoleuse. Once the designs are confirmed, I'll sculpt them from polymer clay in 1/3-scale as maquettes; then my students and i will each take two maquettes and scale them up to full size matrix sculptures, which we'll use to create the masks themselves.There are at present a collection of twelve sketches, which we will narrow to the final six. I thought it'd be fun to run a poll and see which six might be "audience favorites", so here we go!
The gist is, below you will find twelve images, each labeled with a number and name in a caption underneath. Beneath that is a tickybox poll, in which you may select your favorites. You can pick fewer than six if you like. Technically, you can choose as many as you like, but try to limit yourself to six or fewer, for the sake of the poll. I think that only LiveJournal accountholders can vote in their polls, so if you are a non-LJ reader and find you can't submit your choices through the poll code, I invite you to comment with the names/numbers of your favorites.
1. Smeraldina
2. Il Capitano
3. Il Dottore
4. Zerbinette
5. Leandro
6. Cintia
7. Brighella
8. Coviello
9. Pantalone
10. Truffaldino
11. Tartaglia
12. Worried Zanni
[Poll #1565458]
I may be off the grid for a couple of days, as i'm heading out tomorrow for SPESA-Expo 2010 in Atlanta, which i'll be blogging about at week's end. I am super-excited to check out all the exhibitors of equipment, dyestuffs, software, and other products for the international sewn-products industries! Maybe i'll discover the next Fosshape...
I'll be back in the studio by Friday and ready to start the maquettes, so you've got that long to cast your votes before production begins on these. Again, if you don't have an LJ account, please feel free to comment with your choices either here or over on Facebook!
