How many pieces are you working on?

[Thatch]

At this time I am working on 3 with the most time on one getting close to 100 hours. Since I started the one with the most time on it I have finished one and am getting close on another. I find that I need to put the one of my main focus to the side to study more often because it is figural and there is much less room for mistakes. I have of course made a number of mistakes but still hope to pull off a nice form before I call it finished. So between flashes of inspiration or just plain decisions and hard work I plug away on other forms that I do entirely for enjoyment.

Thatch

[G. Murdoch]

Well let's see,

I've got one that will be ready to sand with a few more hours of filing, one roughed out roughly, one roughed out even more roughly, and perhaps 6-8 pieces of raw stone which I intend to rough out before I proceed to the hand tool stage on any of them.

I just finished a marble vessel sink for the farmers who own the land where I have studio space.

I used to do one piece at a time start to finish, and still do if I have a commission. The past couple of years has seen a change to developing coherent bodies of work (4-10 sculptures). Rough them out one by one with 7' grinder, hammer & chisel, and drill. Then carve them more thoroughly with straight grinder, die grinder, and foredom, then file and rasp them all, then sand them all. This seems to be working in terms of producing multiple sculptures which honor the same muse.

Graham

[arcdawg]

I just finished up three small pieces last night.

dawg

[desertrock]

I'm working on 2, sort of. One is an onyx fountain sculpture. The other is a 180 pound piece of amber onyx which I broke about 10 seconds after telling my self not to do any more chiseling, and start grinding. Now it's on to plan "B" for this piece. Week before last I had 5 going and got everything down to polish mode by Friday. Wet polished all day Friday, made pedestals all weekend and delivered them to the gallery on Monday. I'm totally burned out after continuing without a break. Shame on me.

Mark

[Blacksun]

I'm actively working on 1 Granite abstract (medium -about 30"), 2 clays for desktop sized bronze editions, reworking a previously "finished" :rolleyes: granite piece, and carving 23 +/- alabaster pieces of varied small / medium size that I will be delivering between now and Thanksgiving....

then there are the works in process that I fiddle with a little at a time....when the inspiration hits...

I try to stay busy :)

[cooljamesx1]

gosh blacksun you ARE busy! I'm working on only one alabaster peice right now. been working on it sience july! and it's not that big either, weighed 118lbs when I started. I also play around with oil based clay from time to time. did a couple of little fun peices in the last month. It's tough to find time/energy to work in between school and homework and all that crap.

[tobias]

I am working on one piece right now it is for a donation to a silent auction to benifit our zoo. I tend to work on many pieces at a time till ive got some sort of deadline to meat then I will work on it till its done. I have some pieces that seem to be perpetually unfinished(Iguess this happens when you dont have a set plan) and I also keep moving and building /rebuilding my studio. This is because I keep getting bigger and bigger stones and i out grow my old digs.Desert rock I love it when i do that just think man I should stop woth the chisel now and bang its broke . I wish my intuition would give me some more warning I am a bit dull some times and dont get it the first time. Toby you need to stop and aneel that copper or you will rip it. RIP! haha heres to having a plan B.

[ahirschman]

I am re-finishing the bases of two sculptures composed of a total of 31 blocks of cold rolled steel (OK, I should have read some of the post here before working on the stuff, and I would not be re-finishing these things...). Both of these have been sold, and their owners are eagerly waiting for them to be shipped. I just bought some little pieces that I need for another sculpture that was commissioned a couple of months ago. I am also working on No2 / 5 to replace one of the above (Sold) sculptures because I intended to put that one in a show that starts Dec. 1 and I started working on a second piece that I will try to finish by Dec 1. Lots of late nights ahead for me, lots of sloppy made molds, etc.

I also have a large sculpture that has been idle for almost a year. Got lots of good advice here on how to proceed and will start back bending my 1/4" steel (10" wide x 8' ) when I finish the Dec. show.

Ari.

[anotherdreamer]

I haven't been sculpting all that long but I'm amazed by how many I have going. I think my count is up to eight. The problem is I keep getting excited by something new! Hopefully I'll calm down a little eventually, not too much though. I enjoy the excitement of a new idea too much to want to lose that just to quicker completions.

[Berinje']

How productive we all are! It's great to see such creative passion. I'm working on a life size full-figure commission and just starting a portrait bust of a woman. The bust is for my own enjoyment of a woman of my choosing (It seems I'm always getting commissions to sculpt old bald white men--not that there's anything wrong with that.... but, I'd like to sculpt a pretty young woman for a change.)

I like to have several pieces going at once also and have a couple of other commission possibilities in the works, waiting on committees to make up their minds as usual. We'll see :rolleyes:

[GlennT]

Six commissioned sculptures ranging from 7 inches to 4 feet, one commissioned 4' x 8 ' figure painting, one major project in waiting, and a number of uncommissioned works that are nearly complete but neglected due to the commissions. That leaves this forum and the soccer field for most of my social life!

GlennT

[Buster]

Glenn, I hear ya about those poor neglected pieces.
I have over a dozen of them sitting around that I lost interest in after I got side tracked with a commission. Not motivated to finish them, but don't have the heart to tear them down.

[Julianna]

I'm working on two pieces. I normally have one that I'm eager to finish and a second on which I work when I need some distance from the main one.