Los Angeles artist Rey Bustos teaches anatomy from the inside out. I've been taking his class since the new year. Pictured above is my work at about the halfway point. Read on for more...
After baking the figure, I used terracotta sculpey for musculature, and translucent sculpey for tendons.
I got some great dental instruments and other tools and a great price from Widget Supply.
Attention all friends and fans of Rey Bustos: There will be a one-man show of Rey's figure drawings on December 1st in Los Angeles at the San Marino Gallery. The whole gallery will be hung with his work and he will be there, drawing from a live model and discussing with attendees his love of the magic of the human body. I hope you all attend!
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December 1st, 6:00-9:00pm: Rey Bustos: Paths and Passions: One man show for Contemporary artist Rey Bustos. Rey has developed a large and loyal fan base for his intimate, charming and surreal paintings incorporating photographs of urban landmarks in “dreamscapes” that often include buffalo, a strolling woman with a parasol, or cattle grazing. At this show collectors will see another side of Rey Bustos. Rey is a well respected professor of anatomy at the Art Center College of Design and instructor to
Disney animators and students. His mastery of the mechanics of the human body is the platform from which he creates beautiful, fluid, gestural life drawings that fuse Peter Paul Ruben’s, muscular boldness and grace with a confidence, verve and style that bring to mind improvisational jazz. Rey will be drawing from a live figure model at the show and discussing his thoughts on art and the body. A “drawing” will be held and one lucky guest will take home a framed personalized Rey Bustos drawing created that night. The reception will include live jazz, champagne and refreshments. RSVP to 626-441-9007
Hi April. I'm an artist and teacher working in Australia. Having done everything else in regard to the human figure I thought I'd teach myself anatomy and ecorche - crazy but true. No one teaches anatomy for artists or ecorche in Australia so I had to teach myself. With the teaching of modernism in the art schoos here they threw the baby out with the bathwater and all that learning was lost. Anyway, I'm a lone soul plugging away here but its rewarding on a personal level. I have a few questions to follow.
Hi again - what material do you make the skeleton from that is baked? why cover parts with aluminium foil? what wire and guage do you make the armature from? does the armature go through the bottom of the wooden(?) base? is sculpey air drying or baked? what scale is your figure? how long did it take to make? how long is Rey's course? My students take 110hours-54x3hr classes, use wax over a galv.steel armature, ecorche is 1/2 life size (80cm) THANKS!
The skeleton is sculpey over wire. To make the sculpey stick to the armature better we use a thin coat of Vaseline - strange but true. The wire is wrapped around into a loop at the base and stapled to the base using heavy staples. All that is under a layer of sculpey. The aluminum helps the sculpey not to singe - one hopes. Rey's course when I took it was 10 Saturdays, 9 - 2, I think. He has extensive notes, a proper order of doing things that he worked out himself. We use Eliot Golfinger's book as a text as well.
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