I’ve been comparing the proportions of the human face as seen in sculptures to the so called ideal proportions. I decided to take one of my own sculptures and subject it to some rudimentary analysis. The original of my piece was not any closer to the ideal than the sculptures of other artists whose work I’d looked at. I applied a few modifications to the images using the Photoshop digital image editing program and came up with the following. Ther 0riginal on the right, and the photoshopped image is on the left. The next set of images below that shows the same faces with a template of “ideal” proportions overlaid. It’s hard to know at this point how much of the difference is due to my “artistic license” and how much is due to the subjects departure from the “ideal.” Bit of both I’d image. Down at the bottom there is a comparison of a photo of Einstein and a sculpture made in clay.
Our Christmas tree is finally down and out. I burned all the branches in the wood stove and will chop up the trunk pretty soon and burn that too.