Monday, June 7, 2010

Eight years gone in the blink of an eye!







Over the weekend I embarked on the daunting and long overdue task of sorting through and reorganising my 42 GB i-photo library. While the task itself is tedious and time-consuming, I am now seeing a light at the end of the tunnel and as a result, my photographic documentation will be much easier to manage in the future.
As I can't share my newest creation at the moment (it's the secret Schaffas!), I thought I'd post a few pictures of some of my work from 2002. How the time has flown! I remember this period as a turning point in my sculpting.....while still heavily influenced by Froud (and let's face it, I still am) I felt that as my sculpting improved, I was better equipped to depict 'personality' in a strong way.....something that continues to be of paramount importance to me.
I'm thinking of re-visiting some of these pieces, to see how I'd interpret them now......there's a freshness and exuberance here that I remember feeling at the time. Might be fun to try and re-capture that.
Till next time.

7 comments:

  1. Wow!, Lorell those are great pics of your earlier work. I did not know you then. So, it is nice to see how much your work has progressed. Even then you can see your spirit and as you say a freshness is most apparent. Isn't it fun to revisit past ideas and works? I am doing that at the moment and it is fun to see how I am re-interpreting them. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. I love these old pieces Lorell! I look back at my old pieces and realize some of them are better!!! Go figure....

    I was in to embellishing more than now and I don't know why because that was my favorit thing to do~

    Have a good Week Lorell~
    Love~Pattee

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  3. Embracing your influences is the first step to find your own voice. I'm happy that you do, so today other people can say "still heavily influenced by Lorell Lehman".

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  4. Love to know this place! Found it from the teddy bear blog just now! Blessings dear.

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  5. Hi i visited your blog and i think that your blog are very beautiful. your trolls are very nice.
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    hugs

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  6. great blog page and wonderful creations :-)

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  7. I am sorry to hear that your having a miserable day... well into the evening now : (

    Are you ok???????
    Love~Pattee

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