Renderings by Paul D. Richardson

- NMSU Display


	- Class Critique - Side View


	- Class Critique - Rear Diagonal View


	- Original Exhibit - Details


	- Detail - and - Early Stage Photo


	- Early Stage Photo


	- On Display in My Front Yard


	- On Display in My Mother's Front Yard - With Christmas Lights!

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 Advanced Sculpture Workshop class. The assignment was a free-for-all to choose any subject matter or material that we pleased. For my project I decided to create a neglected and malnourished horse. I also decided to continue with a similar sculpting style, as with my last two pieces. I've used steel to create a kind of 3-dimentional line drawing. The volume of the animal is created and implied by the lines in space. On one hand this can help to give the animal a "skeletal" look, and on the other hand it can make it difficult to convey that intention to the observer, so that they don't assume it is only a "side-effect" of the materials...
  
  I based the horse on many photos of emaciated horses from my job, and also some images of horse skeletons I found online. While the skeletons were helpful, they also could be misleading. The metal lines are intended to be topical and to imply the underlying mass, and not to be a mock-skeleton. This was difficult to remember and maintain particularly in the legs of the horse. I think I was able to get away with it for the most part, because the legs conveniently become very thin in the tricky parts anyways...
  
  The overall design of the horse went thru many revisions throughout the construction process. The fence post and barbed wire were not originally a part of the design. I found the fence post and thought it would make for a nice spine, so I used it. I later decided that using only the fence post might cause some confusion and needed to be clarified. I then decided to use the post anchor plate (or whatever it’s called) as part of the face of the horse. That, of course, also led to the barbed wire tale and mane, which I hadn’t really figured out how to do anyways. It was also tricky keeping a 4-legged object from rocking. (literally, that is)
  
  I gave the horse to my parents on mother's day. They named her "Spade".
  
  Date: 2/28/06
  Size: 3'18" X 6'13" X 2'