plaster relief, unfinished,

	Guest Artist: Rockycrop Medium: plaster Contact: rockoutcrop@gmail.com This is the beginning of the plaster modeling process. I hope to learn how to model plaster with my fingers and plaster spatulas. It's exciting to be both constructive, adding plaster, and destructive, by hacking and rasping the surface to find the correct form.
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Three Boys in a Boat

	Guest Artist: Rockycrop Medium: Color Sketch, oil pastel Contact: rockoutcrop@gmail.com This drawing for a painted plaster relief is from a photograph of my three boys riding the "Lazy River" boat ride at the amusement park. I always loved the photo and I'm excited to make this a three dimensional painting.
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foam armature for Three Boys in a Boat

	Guest Artist: Rockycrop Medium: aerosolfoam on masonite Contact: rockoutcrop@gmail.com This is the foam armature that the plaster will be applied to. The foam will lightened the weight of plaster. I'll carve the foam back to allow for a thin skin of plaster to cover the foam. Then the fun will begin modeling the image.
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St. John's Castle clay relief

Guest Artist: Rockycrop Medium: fired earthenware Contact: rockoutcrop@gmail.com This was the first clay study of my four children from a photo of my four children in Ireland outside Saint John's Castle. I love modeling with clay feeling the figures grow and move through my fingers. I don't like the weight of the clay and I wanted to attempt this piece in plaster which I'll be able to paint. I'm learning how to model in plaster, it's not as manipulable as clay it's like painting impasto with a palette knife

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Odalisque on a bagel

	Guest Artist: Rockycrop Medium: ceramic Contact: rockoutcrop@gmail.com I'm really channeling the Francophile in myself. The "Odalisque on a Bagel" was influenced by Ingres "La Grande Odelesque" and Claude Monet's "Water Lilies".
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Afganistan afghan

	Guest Artist: Rockycrop Medium: loop loom weaving Contact: rockoutcrop@gmail.com I made this simple weaving back in the days when I didn't have time or room to paint. I had a little loop loom and I wove over 300 loop loom pot holders and crocheted them together to created this three dimensional afghan. This large piece hangs from the ceiling of my studio.
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