Mobile 2
I'm experimenting with clay for the new mobile. So far I've been able to do 2 batches of birds while with Hannah on Saturdays but it's probably time to head to the studio by myself on a week night.
I love that I can curve the shapes, and I've been able to make them as thin as the acrylic ones. The previous set was fired this weekend, and I can pick them up on Tuesday for a light sanding, a step that I'll skip with these now drying on my table. Some minor scraping got this batch smooth, and any sanding will remove my tool marks. And I have all sorts of thoughts about integrity of the material, but I'm not sure that matters since they'll get a new surface with a matte glaze. Glazing does bring up a whole level of difficulty since they'll need to be suspended while in the kiln, and I am curious as to how that will be done.
Then, other decisions: the connectors on which they'll hang. Real twigs? I have some small laser-cut wooden branches but I think these new birds seem to need less rigidly shaped connecting pieces.
Notes:
The first firing and glazing
The finished mobile
An earlier mobile with acrylic birds, and
A Christmas ornament, precursor to the mobiles
January 28, 2008
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Bunny: This is the animal she made when I learnt about paper armatures.
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Where I'm from: My friend Jeanette visited Guyana last November with her mother and just e-mailed a bunch of photographs.
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