Say cheese
The little guy below left was done last Saturday, when the latest bout of stomach flu (what on earth is going on at that school of hers??) was on its way out, but she wasn't quite her bouncy self yet. So I went to the studio and brought back a chunk of clay, and showed her the other little guy (below, right) by Meredith Dittmar (I bought him for Hannah since she has a collection of hearts).
It didn't go well. One, clay sticks to any surface when you roll it out (wrap a board with canvas first). Two, she was fretful and wanted help, so Tom ended up modelling most of it. She did say, with some asperity, that he couldn't have done all of it since the heart on the figure was hers. I handled him a little roughly when I tried to wrap him in plastic, and his smile was smushed. So I picked clay out of his teeth.
Shevon demonstrated this amazingly simple tip at the studio: How to reduce the weight of these little figures by making a paper core (the paper burns right up). I have to figure out what the kiln will bear, since it would be great fun to make a zoo of little paper mache animals, wrapped in string and glued with wheat paste. And drape them in clay. Or not.
January 17, 2008
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With thumb firmly planted in mouth: Apparently, 2 years ago, I decided to do a comic strip.
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On Salon today: Controversial critic and disgraced blogger Lee Siegel rages against Internet culture and blogofascism.
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