Renderings by Paul D. Richardson


	- Finished Bust


	- Finished Bust - Details


	- Finished Bust - Details


	- Finished Bust with Unfinished Base


	- Finished Piece in the NMSU Art Gallery


	- Rotation Animation - without Base

Renderings by Paul D. Richardson

1. Tom The
Toad

2. Stapec

3. Robert

4. Attack of
the Hair

5. CDsaw

6. Garthocks

7. Futurist
Car

8. Leap
Frog

9. Social
Anxiety

10. Mix

11. Face-Off

12. Corn
Gnomes

13. Freaver

14. Rusty

15. Embedded

16. Spade

17. Outdoor
Kitty

18. Bronze
Bust

Information / Commentary
- This piece was done for my Sculpture II class. The piece is a Hydro-Cal cast of my bust. The theme for the class this semester was Fear. The assignment was to create a mold of ourselves using plaster bandages and then cast it in Hydro-Cal or whatever we could find (one student used resin and crushed red chilies). So we each got to get greased up in vaseline and get plastered, so to speak. To protect our hair many of us wore a shower cap. I then had to figure out what to do with the casted shower cap for the sculpture. My ex-wife suggested making it into a giant white-head pimple to go along with the fear theme. So everything went from there...
  
  The white-heads were painted with wood glue to give them a nasty slightly yellow color. The rest was painted with make up. I wiped on liquid foundation and then drew on the red with a lip liner pencil. I then rubbed the red in with q-tips for the irritation look. I then sealed the sculpture with Fixatif spray, giving it a shinny greasy look. Moles were also added with an eyeliner pencil. The eyelashes were super-glued fake ones that I cut to size. There are also some occasional back hairs sticking out of the sculpture. Those are real. They were yanked out with the mold. Yikes!
  
  The base was first cut from an old coffee table and propped up with screwed on 2x1s. It was then covered in Hydro-Cal that I dripped on in several different layers. Each layer was then painted with wood glue. The finished base was then sprayed with Fixatif to make it look wet. The first two photos were taken before the last layer of glue and Fixatif had been applied.
  
  Date: ~Spring 2004
  Size: 16" X 25.5" X 20"