Steven Carpenter approaches sculpture the same way he builds stone walls. He uses muscular grace as he characterizes the human figure. In landscaping, he studies how light hits the stone picking up angles and colors as they change through the day. The same is true on the human form. Much of his career has combined his art sensibilities with heaven, physical labor- which has given him a powerful sense of how the body feels and functions. In his sculptures you can see the muscle tones, tension in the legs, body and arms as he positions them either lifting or in tense sittings

What is Forton?

Introduction. What do you get when you marry the best parts of plaster casting to the best parts of epoxy and fiberglass? An ultra strong, very hard, weatherproof, odorless, and most importantly a non toxic material casting system that one can sculpt like plaster called the FORTON MG Casting System - sometimes referred to as FMG.

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