Rudy Grossman

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: Portrait sketch.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: I started by sketching out an imagined pose, and then referenced hundreds of photographs of dancers in various poses from various angles to visualize the imagined pose in three-dimensionsal space.

Materials: Roma Plasticine w/ plastic eyes. Details: Male Bust sculpted from a live model. From the "CounterPoint" Art Exhibit.

Materials: Roma Plasticine w/ plastic eyes. Details: Male Bust sculpted from a live model. From the "CounterPoint" Art Exhibit.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: From a figure sculpting session with a live model.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: Initially from a figure sculpting session with a live model, but decided to break out of the traditional pose a little.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: Portrait sketch.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: There was no model for this sculpture. I started by sculpting a younger man, then re-sculpted him as a much older man to understand how wrinkles form and how gravity sags the looser skin in the face.

Materials: Roma Plasticine. Details: This was an anatomy study. I first sculpted the skeleton. Then on half the body, I sculpted every muscle, working from the interior layers to exterior layer.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This is not an original concept of mine. This study is my attempt to draw like the classic master Theodore Gericault.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This is not an original concept of mine. This study is my attempt to draw like the classic master Peter Rubens.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: This is not an original concept of mine. This study is my attempt to draw like the classic master Michelangelo.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: Portrait sketch.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: This Wedding Cake Topper was for a wedding in Cardiff Castle, Wales. The couple choose the pose and provided reference photographs of what they would be wearing on their big day.

Materials: Polymer Clay w/ Acrylic Paint and a Protective Coating. Details: This Wedding Cake Topper was for a wedding in Cardiff Castle, Wales. The couple choose the pose and provided reference photographs of what they would be wearing on their big day.

Materials: Pencil on Paper. Details: Portrait sketch.