Animals at the Academi day 4 of 5

yesterday was the penultimate day of David Cemmick’s Animal Dynamics course at the Barcelona Academy of Art and we are all making progress. Sophie and Ella are both superb sculptors of the human figure but neither had tackled animals before. Rosa, who is a native Barcelona lady, has worked in ceramics but I think animals are a new subject for her. My only sculpting experience is that of modelling cartoon rabbits for a figurine company years ago and retired engineer Kevan has never sculpted anything at all before so tackling a life size parrot is an ambitious challenge! My attempt at sculpting a warthog is getting less like Pumba from the Lion King and more like the real thing, I think. After our coffee break David treated us to a speed sculpture demonstration of Carmelle’s ( our bunny model) head. Which was very helpful especially for the three women. Today is our last day so fingers crossed and good luck all!