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So I've had a busy weekend so far! I'm sad that it's almost over. It's nice though, I have this Monday off and I am soooo excited about that. I needed the break!
For sculpting, yesterday I decided to go ahead and bake the male figure. I poked holes in the body so I can get the arms and legs attached later. I think I'm going to hold off on the girls until after I've gotten the male the rest of the way finished. With the animal figures I would generally bake the legs and sculpt those onto a still soft body, I just want to make sure I like this method before I do it to another one of the figures. Sorry dude figure, you get to be the guinea pig. lol Before I baked him I removed the penis so as of right now he has no male parts. I figured that if I decided to have the penis I could just put it back on later, but if I didn't remove it when it was still soft it would be a pain to take off later if I didn't want it after all.
First I buffed him with talcum powder, then did a wash of alchohol. I'm not sure if I like the alcohol wash, and I'm a bit unsure about the powder because it still has a dusting, but I do think it was good for smoothing. It really helped get the hard to smooth marks off of the face. While I was baking him I prevented any scorching by laying a damp paper towel over him. I AM SO GLAD I DECIDED TO DO THIS I AM GOING TO DO THIS EVERYTIME WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS BEFORE AAAAAAAA. Ahem. Not that the colour changing is that important for things that I'm planning to paint over anyway, but this is so much nicer.
( Out of the oven! )
On Saturday we were going to a Spring Celtic Festival head nearby. There was to be music, a craft fair, and lots of workshops! The workshops were very reasonably priced ($10-25, and the one we wanted was only $10 and included materials!), and one of them was a class on how to carve celtic knots into leather. Scottie does leather work so a class on that was amazing! We both signed up for that because it would be really nice to do something like that together. Unfortunetly when we got there we learned it had been cancelled because the teacher couldn't make it. :(
We were there early though so we were able to see the first musical act, Rogues and Wenches. We'd seen them at the UAA library before, so we were familiar with them. They were a lot of fun. :3
We checked out the craft fair which was kind of small, but there were some cute things. I didn't end up getting anything, but it was fun nonetheless. :)
I took a few pictures there! There was a totem pole outside that I thought was interesting, then a picture of the musical group, then a picture of some hanging beads in the skylight there that I thought were pretty. :) They have bird patterns in them, but the way that they are hanging reminds me a bit of northern lights. :3
( Celtic Spring Festival )
For sculpting, yesterday I decided to go ahead and bake the male figure. I poked holes in the body so I can get the arms and legs attached later. I think I'm going to hold off on the girls until after I've gotten the male the rest of the way finished. With the animal figures I would generally bake the legs and sculpt those onto a still soft body, I just want to make sure I like this method before I do it to another one of the figures. Sorry dude figure, you get to be the guinea pig. lol Before I baked him I removed the penis so as of right now he has no male parts. I figured that if I decided to have the penis I could just put it back on later, but if I didn't remove it when it was still soft it would be a pain to take off later if I didn't want it after all.
First I buffed him with talcum powder, then did a wash of alchohol. I'm not sure if I like the alcohol wash, and I'm a bit unsure about the powder because it still has a dusting, but I do think it was good for smoothing. It really helped get the hard to smooth marks off of the face. While I was baking him I prevented any scorching by laying a damp paper towel over him. I AM SO GLAD I DECIDED TO DO THIS I AM GOING TO DO THIS EVERYTIME WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS BEFORE AAAAAAAA. Ahem. Not that the colour changing is that important for things that I'm planning to paint over anyway, but this is so much nicer.
( Out of the oven! )
On Saturday we were going to a Spring Celtic Festival head nearby. There was to be music, a craft fair, and lots of workshops! The workshops were very reasonably priced ($10-25, and the one we wanted was only $10 and included materials!), and one of them was a class on how to carve celtic knots into leather. Scottie does leather work so a class on that was amazing! We both signed up for that because it would be really nice to do something like that together. Unfortunetly when we got there we learned it had been cancelled because the teacher couldn't make it. :(
We were there early though so we were able to see the first musical act, Rogues and Wenches. We'd seen them at the UAA library before, so we were familiar with them. They were a lot of fun. :3
We checked out the craft fair which was kind of small, but there were some cute things. I didn't end up getting anything, but it was fun nonetheless. :)
I took a few pictures there! There was a totem pole outside that I thought was interesting, then a picture of the musical group, then a picture of some hanging beads in the skylight there that I thought were pretty. :) They have bird patterns in them, but the way that they are hanging reminds me a bit of northern lights. :3
( Celtic Spring Festival )
