The Artistic Process
Evelyn Floret Lectures at the National Academy
Evelyn Floret will be a featured speaker at a lunchtime lecture at the oldest fine art academy in the country, theNational Academy School of Fine Arts. On Thursday, January 20, 12:15 PM, she will deliver the Lunchtime Lecture: “How to Photograph and Promote Artwork.” She will demonstrate in
- Adobe Photoshop, how to remove a busy background from behind a sculpture and replace it with a gradient background.
- Adobe InDesign, how to make a card featuring artwork,
- Microsoft Powerpoint, how to produce a slide show
- WordPress, how to display your artwork using Next-Gen gallery in high slide effect.
Free admission
New Site Goes Live
Today sculpturezone.com is going live. There are so many modern additions with slide shows and videos to come. This is the beginning of a new adventure with my artwork. The site was originally launched in 2001.
The new site is powered by WordPress. The galleries use the NextGen-Gallery with the HighSlide effect. Using WordPress will make it easy for me to update my site and add new images as I do my work. My webmistress, Karen Kreps of Net Ingenuity, set up the site and is coaching me on how to administer it.
The Making of Carmen
Carmen, a life-sized clay figure sculpted by Evelyn Floret, was too heavy to move, weighing 500 pounds. The plaster piece mold had to be made in the studio. This process took eight hours of intensive work by three and, then, four men.
They placed metallic shims on the sides of the clay figure to define the centerline. Then they dripped wet plaster onto the piece, one layer at a time, allowing each layer to dry before splashing on more. They wrapped the figure with plaster-soaked clothes. Finally they shaped rods and rails to the curve of the figure to brace and strengthen the plaster. By then, they had created what looked like a mummy weighing about 150 fifty pounds.
Once they cracked open the dried mold along the shim line, it took the strength of four men to separate the two sides. Only one sculpture could be cast from this piece mold. The plaster mold was taken to the foundry to cure. Then bronze powder and fiberglass were layered inside the mold. When the mold was finally removed, Carmen was reborn in the form of a bonded bronze.