Pantaloon...

[Roy]

Bob, very kind comments..thank you..this flat was especially enjoyable as I learned a little about the character and the Italian comedy...which definately keeps the fun in the project.

Thanks again....Roy.

 

[btavis]

Can you tell us a little about how you came to do flats. Did you know someone else who sculpted them or did you pick it up on your own?

 

[Roy]

Originally posted by btavis@Nov 7 2005, 07:39 PM
Can you tell us a little about how you came to do flats. Did you know someone else who sculpted them or did you pick it up on your own?

I have a great old friend at our club, Phil Haynes, who paints flats (beautifully too) and he showed me a plate in an osprey book and said how he'd love to paint it...but it wasn't available...how would he go about making one.?....well we discussed the methods that we might be able to try out and we thought for the sake of keeping it simple maybe sculpting in high relief on a rectangle of plasticard would be worth a try...(easir to throw away if it didn't work..!)..Phil realised (and took full advantage of) my enthusiasm for a challenge and took the opportunity of 'persuading' me to make it..which I did by the following club night, a week later..it wasn't that great..first try and all that...but Phil was suitably impressed with it..(I let him have the sculpt as it was)..and he painted it up very well too..he was so proud of it..he entered it in Euro, I don't think he won anything but it created enough interest to convince me to try a few more..and I really enjoyed the unique challenge that they present....I know how (in principal) traditional flats are made...and as I couldn't do the engraving into the slate technique, I sculpt with putty (MS) onto tempered glass and take copies from a silicon rubber mould in resin...it's the only way I could think to do it...and so we have the 'infamous resin flat'...sorry if it's been a long explanation Bob...

All the best...Roy.

 

[btavis]

Interesting. Have you seen Rick Taylor's flats? He makes his own with very minimal detail. Yours are truly bas reliefs. Very nice. I like them since they are more like illustration which is something I did for a number of years. Again, great stuff and you have quite a bit of talent.

 

[Roy]

Yes Bob, I've seen the 2 queens that rick taylor done..astounding detail in the painting, I'd love to see some more of his work.
Thanks once again for your kind comments..my flats are certainly more deeply accentuated than traditional metal flats..and I agree, they are very similar to illustration, now you mention it....I wish I could draw...I would be able to get my ideas for a sculpt out much more clearly...I'll have to try harder.

Thank you....Roy.

 

[btavis]

Yes, having the ability to draw does have its advantages. Although the jump from 2D to 3D is still daunting nevertheless. I think your flats are more bas relief which I have always liked especially from the time of the Greek friezes which adorned many of their buildings. Rick's pieces are very flat and more like the engraving type although he makes the master in epoxie. I think Metal Models has a series of bas relief pieces that are quite nice and yours fall somewhere in between very flat and the more pronounced bas relief style. Very nice in any case.