Although I’m considered to be a good artist, I’ve always been envious of people who can work in 3-D.
I can see things well enough; if I couldn’t I couldn’t draw or paint them. But bringing that same subject to life in 3-D? You might as well ask me to get teach physics or dunk a basketball.
When I was in high school I won a scholarship to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Sadly, just after winning that we had a sculpture project in “advanced art”. We had to do a head! No ashtrays for us- straight to a head.
I later heard that my sculpture looked like the love child of Zippy the Pinhead and Wilford Brimley. (You know the 
old guy with the bushy mustache that sells Quaker oatmeal and diabetic supplies on TV, but not at the same time).
You see, Zippy didn’t even make the scene til 1971 and I did my piece in 1969.
Looking at this illustration I can attest it was Zippy- sans bow but with a walrusy mustache.
Where this “person” came made from I have no idea. (I must’ve been a lot more tortured in high school than I realized.)
About 20 years ago my mom confessed that once I went to college, she never kept it “out” when I wasn’t there. She found it “disturbing”.
Apparently not traumatized enough by my abysmal failure at sculpture 40 years ago, last December I tried to make a couple of small (2″) items for a collage for Evelyn – a cherry pie and a rolling pin. Two simple things; I thought I’d just whip them up out of Sculpey. I see people on the cake shows making things out of fondant all the time. It doesn’t look hard.
Looks can be deceiving. (It’s hard, very hard.)
Eventually I got the rolling pin done. It wasn’t great; but it was recognizable. (I honestly think though that most children or chimps for that matter, could’ve done better.) Looking at them you’d assume they were made by someone without opposable thumbs.
As a public service I’ve decided that I will no longer attempt to work in 3-D.
