RESS Windward

• Urgh, just when I think it's safe to ditch the bullets, the paragraphs get all mushed together again! Apologies for that - I'll play safe with the bullets again this time (that was an odd sentence to write!)
• Now, the reason that some of my sculptures are on hold, well, one of them anyway, is thanks to a wonderful thing that has happened. Jasper, the trad scale Percheron model I've been working on (forever!) has been accepted into the RESS Windward program!!
• The RESS Windward program was set up to help people just like me - sculptors who want to produce an accurate, well balanced and realistic equine sculpture to a high standard, but who have stalled and need a little expert help to get to that final stage.
• Windward is a relatively new program for RESS, just one person has been involved before me. Michelle Platt entered her sculputre of a mule called Festus. The review and critique was offered by Lyn Fraley; a very highly regarded sculptor who's works are incredible; and were submitted into the RESS bi-annual newsletter called The Boat. I was just so incredibly impressed with the critique that I went for it, and was accepted for the 2009 Winter edition, which is to be released in January '09.
• So, as I've not submitted my images for review Jasper is on hold, but when I receive my critique I'll be steaming ahead with him, and with a bit of luck might even get him finished!
• It's been a long journey with Jasper, so far I've been working on him for over 4 years! It would be such a buzz to finslly get him completed and cast, even if just for a few copies for myself.
• More to come!