{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Amelia Rowcroft: Strong Foundations","description":"Figurative sculptor Amelia Rowcroft lives in the lovely Sussex town of Lewes on the South East Coast of England, which dates back to 961AD. She was kind enough to invite us into her studio in a building that once housed a brewery in the 1600s, and that\u2019s where we recorded this episode of BWBoR. Amelia has been sculpting practically, working in clay for over 20 years, creating primarily fine art portraits and figurative sculptures, though she has also worked within the film industry, and for the world\u2019s leading wax figure museums including Madame Tussaud\u2019s, and we talked about it all. She studied at Central St Martins, and the Florence Academy in Florence, Italy, and interestingly enough, was also a student at Wimbledon School of Art where Stuart attended, though a few years behind him. As fate would have it, another of our upcoming podcast guest artists, ZBrush Master Madeleine Scott Spencer, also studied at the Florence Academy and remembers Amelia, but we\u2019ll save that for later. We chatted for a good hour and a half and covered a variety of sculpture-related topics, such as why isn\u2019t there a Museum of Crap Renaissance Sculpture so we can see the failures of the Masters \u2013 because there had to be some - and creating a likeness sculpture vs. creating a caricature of a subject. We also chatted about sculpting digitally vs. pushing actual clay around. Amelia was kind enough \u2013 incredibly generous is more like it \u2013 to allow us to explore her online sculpture course, and it is jaw-dropping in content and \u2018lightbulb\u2019 moments. We urge you to at least look at the sample video lessons on Amelia\u2019s website www.sculptingmasterclass.com\/collections. We suspect you\u2019ll want to enrol to take advantage of the instruction offered by this incredible sculptor. Whether you sculpt practically or digitally, this information is invaluable and transferable between mediums. -------------------------------------- Many thanks as always for your time checking the stuff out. You can email us direct at stuartandtodd@gmail.com or leave us a voice message directly on our site. If you enjoy this podcast and got something out of it, would you do us a solid and tell just one more person about us? Send them a link and help us grow! -Stuart & Todd ","author_name":"Battles With Bits of Rubber","author_url":"http:\/\/makeupfx.libsyn.com\/","html":"