hello and welcome to my homepage riolama, where i present to you a gallery of my woodcarvings and pencil drawings. i am best known for my portraits, but i do enjoy to explore other topics too. besides portraits of friends and self portraits, i have carved portraits of michelangelo buonarroti, marion graefin doenhoff, the delphic sybil, and recently albert einstein.
please enjoy your visit to riolama ! ...
... and, if you like to see how my carvings are made, or if you are looking for information or tutorials on woodcarving, please visit my blog which is a great collaboration with mark yundt.
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25.decembre 2011 |
| a huge update consisting of 23 new images in the
zbrush gallery ! It includes a green dragon, a series of abstracts, a creature i modeled for an internet friend (since he just wanted to see how the creature could look he has invented for a story he wrote, it was so much fun doing this for him :-)), and some portraits as well ...
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5.septembre 2011 |
| a few additions to the zbrush gallery, laurel and hardy, three marble bust portraits, two studies in expression, and a passiflora blossom ...
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4.septembre 2011 |
| a memorial carving for septembre 11.
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8.august 2011 |
| 3 very different additions to the zbrush gallery : a sculpt based on marilyn monroe (not close enough to call it portrait), a portrait of caravaggio, as he was drawn by ottavio leoni, and as a fun sculpt a joker. check it out !
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24.july 2011 |
| the first new addition is a portrait of a rottweiler. The next are speedsculpts. i started these session, in which i try to model (and paint if possible) from a reference image in 2 hours. It is like a "drawing sketchbook", but done in digital sculpting instead of pencil ... i believe that this lets me focus on the essential things and make my modeling more effectiv, as well as trains my eye... the first ones i did are : judith, and also the maidservant, from caravaggio's painting "judith and holofernes", then a portrait from caravaggios painting "calling of saint matthew" and finally a "damned soul" from a drawing of michelangelo. all done in zbrush, click here to see them.
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11.july 2011 |
| again, lots of new pics in the digital portrait galery,,, some studys after clay sculpts of philippe fauraut, a little girl, a devil (inspired by a sculpt of philippe fauraut), and a fun creature with a great expression. check it out !
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25.june 2011 |
| my nightly sculpting makes good progress, there are lots of new pics in the digital portrait gallery, an elf, a witch, an alien, and a recreation of a classical marble bust by bernini, constanza bonarelli.
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14.june 2011 |
| new addition in the digital portraits gallery
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11.june 2011 |
| i added a new gallery to my homepage. it contains digital portraits i make during the night hours... you can see how these are made on my blog fun with zbrush
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21.mai 2011 |
| i recently began a new blog, as a diary for my zbrush sculpting works. these digital sculptures are intended as a quick medium for learning, as a model for carving, and, last but not least, are often made just for fun ! check it out here
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7.april 2011 |
| a classical acanthus leaf carved as pierced relief
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14.march 2011 |
| my first portrait carving carved as a bust completely in the round (opposed to the high- and basrelief portraits i did so far ...)
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30.november 2010 |
| i carved a rose as a gift for my mother in law for her 80th birthday...
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17.oktober 2010 |
| my biggest project so far is finished, biggest in time needed to carve it, as well as biggest in size. a panel with a design leaned on the beautiful drawings of alphonse mucha, made into a panel for a book shelf...
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9.september 2010 |
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i hardly believed i will ever finish him, but now i got the time to do so, and here he is
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13.june 2010 |
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for today, a work in progress,,, "gentle whisper" , i plan to make a plaster cast from it
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5.june 2010 |
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i re-organised my blog, since i wanted the information provided more structured... and while i was at it, i gave the blog a new design too. take a look if you like it, and feel free to leave a comment : blog in new "dress"
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22.mai 2010 |
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my first plaster cast with a faux bronze patina is finished
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13.mai 2010 |
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its a holiday today, and i had quite a time not drawn at all, but this morning, while having my coffee, i doodled this fantasy dragon ... fun !!
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10.mai 2010 |
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At least - i rescued her face...
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9.mai 2010 |
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i have begun a step-by-step tutorial on how i cast the model i presented yesterday in plaster. if you are interested, you can follow it here on my blog ... Casting a Clay Model
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8.mai 2010 |
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i worked more on the portraits i had done, inspired by some good constructive critique. and here is the result
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5.april 2010 |
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a long time since i updated my homepage, but i was busy, with work, with carving, and with learning to model in clay... i updated the homepage, made a few design changes, added a new category for my clay portraits to come, and put in there my first to works i like to share, i hope you enjoy
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3.october 2009 |
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inspired by some beautiful greenmen, and that i had carved already a greenwoman myself, i wanted try a greenman too ...
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14. september 2009 |
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a small inbetween project is just finished
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7. september 2009 |
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the bust of joel is finished !
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26. august 2009 |
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i started joel, a portrait bust carved in the round, and as i carve the pictorial story is evolving here on my blog.
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20. august 2009 |
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the orangutan mother with her baby is finished !
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15. august 2009 |
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changed the design of the homepage a little.
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6. august 2009 |
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a new carving is in the works, an orangutan mother with her baby, and as i carve the pictorial story is evolving on here on my blog.
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2. august 2009 |
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the arabian mare is finished !
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