Sculpting Demonstration Video Clips



Sculpting the Aging Process

This is a 4 minute 51 second edited segment from the artist’s full-length video The Art of Sculpting with Philippe Faraut Volume 3: Men. The finished sculpture of the laughing old man entitled Peach Cobbler also appears in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Narration included in full-length DVD. Music by William Boutwell.



Sculpting the Hand

Philippe Faraut created this 7 minute sculpting video tutorial to demonstrate how he models the hand in clay. At this size, this hand requires only minimal armature (a simple tube through the wrist). For this piece, Philippe uses the planes tool for the blocking in of volumes and the finger tools for shaping the knuckles, finger nails and tendons. Music by William Boutwell.



Sculpting Geometric

This is a 4 minute 51 second trailer for Philippe Faraut's Techniques of Sculpture: Geometry in the Clay Portrait. The main sculpture of the male planes head is available from the Reference Cast section of our online store. Narration included in full-length DVD in both English and French. Subtitles in English and Spanish. Music by William Boutwell.



Sculpting with
Philippe Faraut

This is a 3 minute 33 second edited segment from the artist’s full-length video The Art of Sculpting with Philippe Faraut Volume 3: Men. The finished sculpture of the cowboy also appears throughout Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Narration included in full-length DVD. Music by William Boutwell.



Sculpting the Art Critic

This 6 minute clip shows Philippe Faraut modeling the bust entitled The Art Critic. The finished sculpture appears in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. The last few seconds of the clip include footage of this new book while it was on press and then being flipped through from the back to the front closing on the cover. Music by William Boutwell.



Crazy

This 3 minute 44 second video clip shows the artist transform a sculpture from alert and pensive to mentally unbalanced. Both the original sculpture Roman Senator and the final version entitled Ward 6 are analyzed in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Music by William Boutwell.



Meth-Amorphosis

This 4 minute 54 second video clip started out as a family project intended to show the artist’s two young daughters the potential effects that drugs, particularly methamphetamines, can have on the human face. Faraut concentrated on the emaciation that occurs from the loss of appetite that all addicts of meth suffer. One of the challenges was to represent the mental state associated with drug addiction; mostly emptiness and lack of stamina. Both the original sculpture of the young mother and the final version are discussed in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Music by William Boutwell.



Before the Devil Has Time

This video clip was inspired by the original song composed by Bill Boutwell. Using two different colors of clay Philippe depicts the likeness of the model and his alter ego.