Showing posts with label rabbits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rabbits. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 February 2021

#764 "Earitated"

 

"Earitated"

6"H 10"W 7"D
Edition 50



This little rabbit has an irritating itch that must be tended to.  The gesture is typical of the long-legged creature and body contortion is not needed to reach the spot. Rabbits continue to be a very popular subject.  


   Blog, text, photos, drawings, and sculpture . . . © Sandy Scott and Trish

Tuesday, 27 August 2019

#714 "All Ears"




"All Ears"
22"H  11"W  7"D
Edition 50
3,000

Blog, text, photos, drawings, and sculpture . . . © Sandy Scott and Trish



#697 "County Fair Lops"


"County Fair Lops"
8"H 14"W 8"D
Edition 65
2,100



Blog, text, photos, drawings, and sculpture . . . © Sandy Scott and Trish


Wednesday, 28 January 2015

#604 Museum shows: The Autry Masters


The Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles opens this Friday, Jan. 30.  
The prestigious show is one of America's most important exhibitions of representational art.  
Eighty of the nation's most prominent painters and sculptors participate in the annual juried invitational, 
which runs through March 8.

http://TheAutryMasters

Shown below, are the four sculptures and one painting that I am exhibiting in the show.
More information about the gala opening and event in next Sunday's blog.


Taurus Rex
19"H 16"W 8"D
6,300


 The Taker
19"H 18"W 11"D


Requiem for the Fallen
16"H 33"W 8"D


All Ears
11"H 22"W 8"D

Below,  since art school and my days in commercial art, I  have enjoyed oil painting.
 They are not to be found in galleries . . . but every year I create one painting
for the Autry Masters miniature wall.

Running Rooster
6" x 8"



Go to the BLOG INDEX on the right for more information.


Blog, text, photos, drawings, and sculpture . . . © Sandy Scott and Trish


Sunday, 4 August 2013

#449 Rabbits


I'm a country girl and my Father was a rancher, farmer, and dairyman.  I have had a love and 
appreciation of animals and the agrarian lifestyle since childhood.   We have horses, chickens, 
geese, goats, rabbits as well as cats and dogs at our Wyoming headquarters.  We live in a rural area 
on a river's bend and wildlife abounds . . . I have plenty of models for my artwork, both domestic and wild.

We raise and breed New Zealand White and Silver Fox domestic rabbits. . . 
both are large breeds and can be crossbred.  Rabbits breed and grow so 
quickly that one pair of does can produce more than 600 pounds of delicious, 
nutritious white meat in a year.

Below, Trish is holding a young New Zealand White buck 
that will get about 40% bigger when full-grown.



 I routinely use the animals as models, and below I'm working on a little rabbit study 
in the design studio.  The sculpture was blocked in earlier in front of the hutch.  
I've enlarged the ears and have not attempted to create a specimen of the breeds we raise.




Below, is a sculpture cast in bronze entitled; "Recumbent Hare".

Recumbent Hare


Below, is an original hand-tinted etching entitled The Clearing.





Blog, text, photos, sculpture, drawings, and etchings . . . © Sandy Scott

Saturday, 18 February 2012

#164 In the studio: Fur and feathers . . .


There are similar considerations when modeling an animal covered with fur or a bird covered with feathers:
The sculptor must make the viewer sense the structure and anatomy of the creature under all the cover.
Bony waypoints must be identified and sometimes exaggerated and shapes must be simple, strong and clear.


Recumbent Hare
9"H 14"W 10"D



Friday, 17 February 2012

#163 In the studio: Lop eared rabbit





A gallery that represents me has a client who wants a sculpture of a lop eared rabbit.
 Although I don't have a model, I'm having fun with the subject. 

While researching lop eared rabbits on the computer, I discovered that they are hopelessly cute.  Rarely am I inspired by "cute" subjects but I couldn't resist this request:  It's about the ears and I love to model rabbits.

Below is a quick, preliminary block-in of the little critter.