Day 228 - 365/2014

Day Two Hundred Twenty-Eight

I have the weekend off -- Sue's husband isn't working this weekend and that means they don't need me to stay with Sue...yay for all of us!

Geez -- there are so many things I want to work on and yet I can't seem to get started on any of them.  I finally chose to try again with the plaster cloth rabbit-like guy's legs/butt area.  Early this afternoon I tried to match up the way I had started on the first side...but naturally, too much time has elapsed and while I remember the gist of it, I wasn't happy with the way it was turning out...tear it all off and get back to the drawing board.  Tonight I ended up cutting a thick cardboard tube, then a paper towel tube, then some plastic drinking glasses.  If I stay with the plastic drinking glasses at least things will be fairly even if I work on one side and then the other at the same time.  I will keep building up the shape evenly until I come up with something I am happy-ish with.  This is where I needed to end for tonight.

The "before" shot...

...my starting point for today.

I kinda sorta evened things up, but I was really not happy with it in person...the first side was very soft and today's side was nice and firm...I couldn't get them to equal out in the end.

That's okay -- tear it all off and start again!

From the beginning.

Cutting up a heavy duty cardboard tube.

Trying to shape some pieces of lightweight cardboard tubing.

Uh...no.

Cutting up some plastic drinking glasses...I have a billion of these.

Well...at least the sides are pretty darn close to even.

This could be a decent foundation to build a shape over.

Also, for three days in a row I missed three opportunities to make a run out to Rochester to pick up my unsold artwork from the Paint Creek Members Show...stuff kept coming up at the last moment.  Sue's husband will be going in to work early on Monday and he is going to drop Sue off over here and then she and I will make the trip out to get my stuff.  Then we'll zip back to drop the artwork off at my house and head back to her area to get her to her physical therapy appointment.

365 Day 193

let's try this again...

Okay...take two. Today the plaster cloth changes to the cat-creature are dry and I can start to repaint it. I know it won't be the same as the first version, but hopefully I can get close because I liked the way the paint looked before.

This time I am doing ALL of the spraying in the garage. I learned my lesson(s) the first time -- this paint has VERY intense fumes. No drying in the guest bathroom this time.

It was already getting pretty dark out in the garage and it was hard kind of hard to see what I was doing (not that it makes all that much difference...LOL). I also forgot to take photos between paint layers...had to work quickly and leave time for shaking the cans.

I threw in another spray paint color this time. I went from yellow to poison to olive. I will do the rest of the painting with regular acrylics and a brush. Maybe in the morning I will touch up the spray...maybe not.

OH -- and I remembered to mask the eyes! Yay...less scraping later.




Gesso coat...admittedly he looks pretty creepy right now.

















back view gesso coat



















the three colors of Montana Gold spray paint I used this time














what he looks like so far...in the dark garage