October Blog

Looked after Thomas and Alex the other week. We each did a life-size head in clay, no model or references.





Alex finishing off the eyes; she's at the age (9) where she can see something is wrong but can't fix it easily. She asked for a bit of verbal help, whereas Thomas (6) didn't want any help at all.







This is Thomas' head in the first stage of having a plaster mould made.



Here they are in concrete: mine, Alex's, Thomas':




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John and me resting in a smallish kloof. The camera was set up next to a small stream, still running even though the rains have hardly started. This was a very nice shady spot; very welcome in the baking hot, dry area we were hiking.

Thomas, Rita and Yvonne scrambling up part of the lovely walk we did recently: a good 6 hours of: hiking, climbing down to a kloof (gully or gorge), along another rocky kloof and up another one - back on top and back to where we started. The only footpath was on top. I was surprised Thomas did so well, and even more surprised when he wanted to do more hiking the following weekend. He slept all the way home.