Clergyman sculpts child's head
CROFTON - When he?s not doing his district superintendent duties or preaching in one of his district?s churches, the Rev. Chris Holmes may be sculpting.
He recently completed a bust of a 5-year-old, commissioned by the boy?s father, Michael Bacher of Annapolis.
'I couldn?t believe someone wanted me to do a sculpture for them for money,' Holmes said. 'But then I thought this would be a great opportunity to work with a live model,' he told The Capital newspaper.
The boy was a good model, Holmes said. 'I just put him on a chair in front of the television and he would sit quietly.' He also took lots of photographs to work from in between sittings.
The finished sculpture sits on Bacher?s piano, along with those of his father and himself, done at about the same age.
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