Showing posts with label a lesson learned. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a lesson learned. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2012

2012/365 - Day 41 part two

oh well...try again later



It felt like the tail was going well, but I guess it started getting too long...then it wouldn't set w/o support.















This is an hour and a half later ... that tail just kept getting thicker and thicker and it didn't look at all like I wanted. I think I might have been fighting it too much -- trying to make it look the way I wanted instead of the way the tail wanted to look.



















Nope...nothing like I was going for.















At least the head is starting to look better.
















I pulled the second tail off while I still had a chance.
















Ha ha ha...now I have two tails drying on the hook on the bathroom door. I can probably use them sometime down the road. They will go on the "save-it-for-later" shelf once they are dry.

That's what I get for trying to direct instead of being directed.
A good lesson learned.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

365 Day 166

tweaking plaster cloth guys

I am feeling a little bit off today (I think it is allergies) but I wanted to do SOMEthing.

I started painting some clear glass dots for eyes.



































Then I started tweaking a few of the plaster cloth guys that I have been making as submissions for a couple of local shows. I originally started out with 10 possible guys for the show Small(er) at DAM, but a few of them have outgrown the guideline size. I will continue to work on them, but they will maybe go to a different show.


This is the guy with the bumps on him. He started out the day with just the large green glass eyes...no facial features. So far, he has got a somewhat humanoid thing going on. I'm not sure if he will keep it. I also added another bump on his forehead. All of the bumps are actually glass beads covered over with the plaster cloth.

















The horizontal guy with the orange glass eyes is the wowl I am making for Juana. I gave him eyelids and a little more shape and more of an apron. He still needs work.












Today I changed this guy's facial features to look more like a bear. It is hard to see in the photo, but in person it actually does look kinda bearish.

















I don't have any photos of this guy with just his glass eyes, but he was creeping me out -- looking like some sort of crazed baby bird...so I changed him.















This is the former crazed baby bird...now a creature with ears, a longer face and two horns...except this photo only shows one horn...kind of rhino-ish right now...this is one of the guys who is now too tall for the Small(er) show.















What have I learned today from working with the plaster cloth? I learned that if I am not totally feeling it, I should leave it alone. For me the plaster cloth is best when I am eager to get to it and then something else takes over...today I was forcing it and I am not all that thrilled with the results. They are not wholly horrible, but it wasn't a F*U*N session...it felt like work.
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