23.10.20 - Finishing Yesterday's Work & Object Drawings

After leaving it overnight, the clay still hadn't dried because the shape is so large, so I’m going to leave it in college over half term and see how it looks the next week. I was still able to glue the legs on and I like how they turned out, the plaits are quite manipulable so I can pose it in different ways. The underneath is completely flat so I have put it on a little platform so that it doesn’t become stuck to the table, and I can also rotate it easily if I want to work on it. The mandibles are showing signs of drying as they look paler, so I think the whole thing will look quite different when it is dry because the clay will be a lighter shade and the pink might stand out more as a result. The object weighs about a kilogram and I really like how this feels to hold because it's as heavy as I would expect an animal of that size to actually be.



To make a change from 3D work, I did some little illustrations of the pink objects, first sketching with pencil and adding watercolour paint, then drawing with fine-liner on top.



I think these worked well because they are quite loose and playful, and they remind me of E. H. Shepards illustrations from children's stories such as Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, and Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. I find these greatly comforting and I love working in this style, however I'm not sure how I can bring 2D work into my final piece for this project because everything I have done so far has been three-dimensional.













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