Thursday, September 8, 2011

Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Plasticine is a type of modeling clay. It is used in the creation of clay animation to make characters. It is made out of calcium salts, aliphatic acids, an petroleum jelly. The consistency is a putty substance.
Plasticine Models by Karen Caldicott
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Colonel Gaddifi has been captured - in Plasticine - by Leicester-born sculptor Karen Caldicott, who now lives in New York. Her Gaddifi bust cheekily features cuts and bruises - perhaps a glimpse at the Libyan leader's imminent future. Karen has also made eight inch-high sculptures of Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Hillary Clinton...

Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models
 
...and Apple boss Steve Jobs. Karen explains: "This Plasticine is the kind that is used in stop-motion/Claymation animation. The fact that it never really hardens makes it the perfect material to continually make adjustments, which art directors often ask me to do."
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

"Mostly these are commissions from magazines and newspapers. If I decide to make a head otherwise it's because I can really have fun with a certain subject, she says". Pictured: her sculpture of Michael Jackson
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

As well as sculpting well-known faces, Karen accepts commissions with prices starting at $1000. She displays her works in galleries and also has plans to animate her heads for a short film. Pictured: Mick Jagger
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models
"I do not have a favourite sculpture as I become very fond of them all," she says. "I'm surrounded by them at home, they keep me company."
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models
She first sketches her subject before painstakingly building up the shoulders and head by adding small bits of Plasticine. Once she is happy with the features the bust is then painted in acrylic.
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Various Plasticine sculptures

Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Hillary Clinton - with torn jacket
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Angela Merkel
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Benazir Bhutto
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models
Aretha Franklin
Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Samuel L Jackson

Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Jim Jarmusch

Amazingly Creative Plasticine Models

Karl Lagerfeld

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