Sculpted with polymer clay to eventually concrete molds. Long rewarding process.

I'd welcome any feedback, constructive criticism, or suggestions for improvement. All thoughts and advice are greatly appreciated!

I was getting frustrated trying to make the face beautiful and failing so I decided to just blindfold her. At the end of the day, Im happy with it overall. I’ll be working on facial anatomy in the future…

I’m Henry, an artist working in Brooklyn. This is Cemí I, the first sculpture in a series I began in 2024.

The horn forms come from the vejigante masks of Ponce, Puerto Rico. I brought one home from a childhood visit to the island and kept it in my room for years. I always felt it watched over me. That feeling is still part of what I’m exploring in these sculptures: the spiritual life of an object, and how something we live with can come to hold a presence.

I build the armature from recycled delivery cardboard, cover it in papier-mâché, then layer heavy-body acrylic and raised dots, each applied by hand. The repetition is where a lot of the work happens for me—attention, intention, and noticing when my own balance shifts.

My mother is Puerto Rican, and making this work has become one way of tracing a connection to the island that I’m now studying more deliberately. I’m interested in hearing from other sculptors whose personal histories find their way into their materials and forms.

Has making ever helped you recognize something about where you come from?

I'm so proud of his art!!!

Plaster, cardboard and wire

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How is it? I would love some suggestions as to how I can avoid the clay to dry so quickly as I need a lot of time to shape it.

I used mouldit clay for these.

Some process pics of this sphynx sculpture :)

This is my most recent original piece that I finished a couple weeks ago. Roughly 18"×18"18". 16 gauge mild steel. No Ai bullshit.

VESSEL: GEOLOGICAL I is a one-of-a-kind sculptural object exploring the relationship between geometric structure, containment and natural material.

A cylindrical plaster form contains a fragment of geological material concealed within its solid mass. The vessel was physically fractured to expose the stone, leaving the contrast between the controlled exterior and irregular interior intact.

The remaining cylindrical structure suggests a functional container, while the exposed geological fragment disrupts its ordered geometry and reveals a material history beyond the manufactured form. The fracture is preserved as evidence of the physical process rather than repaired or concealed.

VESSEL: GEOLOGICAL I is part of an ongoing body of work exploring geometric structures, embedded materials and the transformation of controlled forms through physical intervention.

Hi everyone!
Following up on my previous post , I’ve made a new bigger prototype of my CNC-machined aluminium Ronin sculpture.
Here are both version side by side !
What do you guys think? Which version do you prefer ?

I first built the armature using thick galvanized wire, securely anchored to a wooden base. Then, I began sculpting with air-dry porcelain clay. The overall anatomy and proportions are now established, and I’m currently refining the finer details, bringing the lion’s character and presence to life, one detail at a time. 🦁

All glazed up and ready for the kiln!🤞🫣

I have more than 50 artworks in my office, most of them in metal (iron, steel, aluminum, bronze), but also concrete, stone, ceramic and wood. They're from all over the world: Armenia, Belgium, Brazil (where I live), Bulgaria, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine and USA.

This is my first time taking on a project like this and while im excited I’m nervous. I’m going to restore the paint on this guy, I want to sand it a bit use primer, spray paint and a protective finish but the owner doesn’t know what kind of material that the lion is made out of and neither do I. He guessed that it’s a resin statue? What paint and finish will be suitable? Thanks