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Half of every sale goes to the sitter's charity.
The opening film is made with AI. The portraits are made by hand.
The opening film shows a portrait bust being made: a wire armature, then clay, modelling, a plaster mould and the finished cast. The film is made with AI.
01Armature
02Clay
03Modelling
04Mould
05CastThe opening film is made with AI. The portraits are made by hand.
AI can make a picture of anything in seconds, and for me it has taken a lot of the joy out of making art.
It hasn't touched figurative sculpture. A machine can't sit across from someone for two hours and push clay around until it looks like them.
I've spent twelve years in film making other people's ideas real. This is me finding my own voice, in public.
If AI has taken some of the joy out of your work too, follow along. Maybe it helps you find your way back in.
One portrait a month, from life. Each sitter picks the next sitter and a charity, and keeps a plaster cast of their portrait.
Alongside the sittings, I make a small sculpt every day and post it, whatever else is going on.
The first portrait sells for £100. Each price after that is the two before it added together, so they start low and climb fast.
£100
You can buy it before anyone knows who the sitter is. Each is a single cast, and the only other one belongs to the sitter.
50%of every sale goes to the sitter's charity
Give straight to this month's charity through its JustGiving page. It goes to the charity, not through me, and counts towards the total at the top.
Every sitting and every daily sculpt goes up on Instagram.
@oblidahI'm Olly Williams, a sculptor and production designer in Oxfordshire.
I was sculptor on Stanley Tucci's film Final Portrait, making replicas of Giacometti's work, vetted by the Giacometti Foundation themselves.
I've also worked in film art departments for over twelve years, on Bohemian Rhapsody, Loki, Silo and Gladiator II among others.