Over the last several years, I have been asked by many people where they might find more information about sculpting using the sight-size method (see my 'technique' page for a brief description of this). As the only place one can learn this method is in Florence, Italy, and since I was one of the developers of this method, I decided to write a studio handbook for the benefit of my students and for anyone else who might be interested.

I have self-published this little handbook,under the name of Sculpting From Life - A Studio Manual of the Sight-Size Method

now available through Lulu Press, and also available on Amazon's and Barnes and Noble's websites. It's a no-frills, no-flash handbook, just lots of useful information illustrated with copious images. The book contains step-by-step figure, portrait, and low relief projects, as well as info on how a studio should be set up, lit, and furnished for clay work with a model. I also talk a bit about the sight-size tradition and its relationship with the naturalistic tradtion in painting and sculpture.

I'm currently working on a second edition that will contain much more, including a concordance of sculpture texts written by sculptors throughout the last 250 years, and a geneaology of masters and pupils whose legacy of studio training, whether through ateliers or through instructional manuals, still survives. Due out in 2010 or 2011, I hope.

Just click on this link! Thanks!