The design of Rey's ecorche features a moveable left elbow joint, so we made the wire armature for the left forearm and hand as a separate piece. I taped mine to my ecorche's ground for safekeeping.
After a series of neat accordion bends and just one snip with wire-cutters, we had the armature for our ecorches' right hands in place as well.
With the final armature building behind us, we moved on to the triple topic of the day: vertebra-thorax-humeri. In English, that's spine-ribcage-upper arm bones.
Rey showed us his neat technique for representing the vertebra in a believable way as a group. Rey guarantees that this "grouped" approach poses less of a risk to mental health than attempting to sculpt each vertebra individually. I can vouch for the technique, but you'll have to take the class to find out what it is. ;-)
Rolling out the ribs and building the support surfaces for future "muscles" on the right side of our ecorches filled the rest of the class.
The support clay on the right side of the ecorche does not represent any anatomical structures in the human body. However, for our ecorches, this support will be necessary when we begin to add muscle to the figures in two weeks. Rey made sure each student's ecorche was on track before dismissing class.
Our homework for the week was to install the support clay, complete the humeri, and finish the ribcage with a sternum. Here's the result of my best efforts:
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