Laura Harling About My Art Page

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Mixed media techniques ... Before I start a sculpture, I spend many hours researching my subject. I read everything I can, and gather many photos. It can take 60 hours to carve a small head the size of a walnut from plastic polymer with a dental tool. After baking the head in the oven I may carry it around in my pocket for months before it "speaks" to me and I know what to do with it. Then I make a little skeleton out of wire, wrap it with plaster bandages, add some paper mache, cover that with plastic polymer, carve the details, and bake it. I make hands, feet, and any other small objects that I want to add, build a wooden base, assemble the figures, attach everything to the base, paint all with acrylics - and viola! It's done!
I use whatever materials are handy and will work such as:
A round toothpick for Willie Brown's scepter
A coat hanger for Bob Dole's tree
A corn flakes box for Jerry Brown's shrine
Broom straw for parts of Bill Clinton's saxophone