Lightning blew the cable modem away so no post yesty. Over the past 2 days the big feller has come good-ish. I'm feeling much better this evening than i have been since i started the project. Maybe it WILL be OK! One more day to work then Wed they come to see it. I'm really hoping it will be so great when they see it that they won't want anything done to it. Ha. Well i'm "visualising" it eh. That works sometimes. Anyway the clay is drying out hardcore (pun) and doing any changes will mean smashing a bit off rather than gentle toolwork. This clay is funny it doesn't crack but it likes to dry out. Has a very hard rubber consistency i guess i would say. Its very good for this purpose. You can work it with hard tools once its harder & get different textures happening. Though thats not always good cos you can ruin it with too much tool. But then, you know, the wet clay will just adhere on to the dry! so if you bugger it you can renovate it. Nice.
Its now a matter of staring at him & changing the bits that don't fit quite right into being good bits. Time consuming thing on such a big fellow. And its in 3d so its creep the thing round a bit now & then too cos hey it was ok from that angle & now its totally shite 10 degrees round. His head is improved, his face is OK now, lucky number 7 i think it is, but i will need to adjust his head to fit behind it. Its difficult up so high. I'll be up on a milkcrate on the table to look down on him cos i'll need to see the top of his head. Never tried that yet. Hope i don't fall off there i'm not so good at heights. It would really suck to break an ankle anyway. Or any of the other bones I have here.
Most visitors tell me he should have a bigger package. I reckon its OK as it is, and they are just joking anyway. But while i'm on my soapbox (or milkcrate), i hate this modern trend of giving statues massive protrusions as if the whole sculpture was all about their crotch. FFS - no matter what they did to get famous, there's no subject who wants to be immortalised like that.
Anyway feeling less stressed ths evening. You don't realise how stressed you are til it loosens a bit. I have started daydreaming about the next thing i do, what will it be. i will have a few days during which i should be starting the next project but i reckon i could slip in some other stuff too. My latest daydream is to make some bookshelves. A grand plan is it not. Well they aren't ordinary bookshelves, oh no. They're the ones with little cubes, so like 4 x 6 of 1ft cubes making up a bookshelf. You could alternate books-a sculpture-books-a sculpture etc. Or glass bobble - books - japanese toy - sculpture. Or in my case crap - more crap - books - junk - crap - books - unidentifiable. And paint it some colour. Or white, cos the walls here in my rented room are white. And then it would disappear & there would just be cubes of STUFF hanging suspended there. Awesome.
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