Now that I’ve met some really good ones, I like kids.
Charlotte, Rose and Ben hung out with me for a few hours and made use of the fancy table and chair set I picked up from the Salvation Army.
Charlotte made two life-like swans for her swan pond scene. Rose made an expressionistic swan and then decimated it in favor of an enormous family of snakes and worms. Ben made a dragon with the thinnest white wings which ended up burning black in the firing process to excellent effect.
I’ve been working on wax figures for the feral children museum. Both for the dioramas and also for stand alone figurative tableaus. Note to anyone interested in wax: do not decide to do a lot of wax sculpting in a short amount of time! The whole process requires friction from your fingers and heat from your hands, you’ll take off the majority of your outer dermis and then burn what’s underneath it- super ouchy. Oh but I love modeling in wax, and my figures always turn out the same. I set out to make them different but the longer I work them the more they turn into the same old figure but in a different pose or with different characteristics. Lesley rated them a 7 on a scale from 1 to 10 of crudeness. 1 is very very crude, probably like a puddle you’d call a figure. 10 is porcelain figurine fancy. I’m casting them in bronze eventually, progress shall be reported.
