There he is with his main bulk skin of paper plaster/clay, odd and ends still to do like final shaping, face, gloves. The clay mix is made from two rolls of toilet paper wet-mashed, wood glue, jointing compound, I added a pile of flour in for good measure and cement ochre oxide for base colour then mushed the whole lot up in a bucket that alchemized into gooey paper plaster which can be a beast to work with wet - the hound started sagging from all the weight of the wet plaster, so I propped him up and stuck him outside to dry, worried the poor bugger would collapse completely! But nah. We’ve had glorious sunshine here these last few days so he’s baked/set rock solid, what a relief. He’ll get his finishing tomorrow. Then dry outside again, and final paint job.
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The boxing dog is looking GREAT. It is really interesting to watch the artistic process. One can see it is a lot of time consumming work from the start of the metal frame to the finishing off, (not counting drying time), but I can't wait to see it finished, so keep up the good work! It will make a brilliant addition to an exhibition of all your other paintings and cartoons, so I hope you have plans along those lines in the pipeline.
Thank you kindly. There's a lot of other stuff I must photograph and upload, paper-mache based, this medium is very free make stuff from scrap the sky's the limit... plus you learn tricks on how to make the stuff durable... my little miniatures (which will go up soon) get coats of varnish... weird little things... will do a bulk photoshoot maybe this weekend.
...and woman's bangles made from used up wrapping tape rolls... funky!
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