I realize that I've been a slacker about posting the projects from the rest of the classes I took at Art is You Stamford back in October. I posted all the photos from my masterclass, but none of the others! So I'm starting with my little mini evening class that Patty and I took with the awesome and talented Michael deMeng - Dirty Rotten East Coast Eggs (based on his Dirty Rotten Eggs series.) In the class, we took a regular old plastic Easter egg along with some Aves Apoxy Sculpt and sculpted our own characters. Because of the time it takes the clay to cure we didn't finish the painting in class, but I finished my little sculpture! We each went around the room and shared our little characters and what we'd decided to name them. Mine was Curly Joe Magillicutty. There was really no other name for him. When you see him, you know why.
Of course, I didn't realize that I had neglected to take any decent before photos until after I'd started painting him. Oops! So here you can see one where Curly Joe accompanied me in my car on my move to Utah with the thought that I'd paint him while waiting for the moving truck.
Obviously, that didn't actually happen - I got distracted with a totally different project that took the entire time up until the movers came and delivered all my stuff. So he sat on a shelf in my studio until this week when I pulled him down to paint... at last!
Without further ado, meet the finished version of Curly Joe:
In class, Michael had demonstrated how to get what he calls "creepy baby doll glow" with paints. Which he demonstrated on a baby doll head, so it all made sense, of course. It's been a few months, but fortunately I had a few notes and a good memory, so I think I got it fairly close to the correct process!
From the back... I added some molding paste to get the non-curly hair:
At this point in the modeling session, Curly Joe was feeling like striking a pose:
His eye is just a plastic doll's eye that came in the class kit.
I feel so much better now that he's painted. He just seemed naked before. So now he's done and sitting back on his shelf... he still watches over my studio, only in color now :D
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