Last Project Saturday I made a fairy trapped in a jar. I made it to look a bit disturbing in so much as the fairy looked partially dessicated. I had gone with Jean to the park and collected a few leaves and things to put in the jar with the fairy like a child would do with a moth in a jar. I had left said jar on my table out of sight with the lid closed for over a week. Just now, I was clearing the table after having started on another jarred specimen when I saw the fairy trap. Holy, awesome, what the…?

I forgot to take into account the general nature of freshly picked things and, voila! Thanks to some disgusting, yet cool looking, mold the fairy skeleton is even more disturbing and it appears trapped in ghostly white webbing for eternity. Yummy.

That said, I think I’ll seal this one off so it can’t accidently be opened. I’m keeping it. Unless, someone wants to pay $500 for it, I’d consider that.

Project Saturday saw the midpoint of a couple small pieces. Primarily the jarred things received the breath of life. Jean and I also got out to the park and grabbed a few small odds and ends to create 2 fairy traps. I don’t remember if I posted the original fairy trap anywhere in here, but it was received well and I had a couple more jars hanging about in my work space. The pictures aren’t super detailed as I only took time to snap a few low-light shots with my phone, but I think it gets the idea across. Look for them in the shop soon.

The spoon was integral to the plan…

Not sure what will come of it, but I declare today to be Project Saturday. No kitten is going to entice me to Brooklyn…

It’s been a couple days since my last update on this project and here’s why…

As always, I took the weekend to go hang out with my wonderful fiancé, Jean, in Brooklyn. While there, and in conjunction with eating pizza, I suddenly realized that I had been going about the project all wrong. I have an idea in my head (which is where I hold most of my ideas) about the shaping and details of the skull, but I am having issues creating the armature in a way that defines the sculpture outcome properly. Due to the sheer size of this project I’ve wasted many hours building up the clay around the current armature only to discover that I have done it wrong. As I said in earlier posts, “this was a shot in the dark”. Well, my “shot” missed the target, so I’m reloading.

Pizza. Everything can be solved with pizza from which I derive my powers. Just kidding… about the powers. Pizza boxes, when unfolded, just happen to be roughly 38″ long from inner crease to crease. Why does that matter? Well, that’s how long this particular skull is. I plan on taking a couple weeks to build up some cardboard supplies (which should be easy with Litte Ceasar’s at the corner) from which to create a fuller armature to build on. I’ll just cut the shapes and slot the thing together to get a better sense of the whole before I add clay to it. In the mean time I have to tear down the current structure and re-mold the clay into usable pieces. Using my handy-dandy study lamp, I’ve found a way to soften the NSP to a workable temperature, so the process should go more quickly than it did two weeks ago.

This weekend is Mother’s Day, thus creating another delay in the process…

Grrr Arrrgh.

ADDENDUM – 5/29/10:

The Alien skull is canceled for now. After much deliberation I’ve opted for finishing up some smaller projects first before my wedding. After which I have to move to a new place and I don’t know if I’ll have much space for large projects or not. I really want to make one still, but it will have to wait.

J, if you see this.. I just made up a 16:9 3-frame storyboard page on which to start doodling the weekend ideas. I thought I’d make it available for download to all…

Story Board Template