Two posts in one day!

Aren't you the lucky one?!


I forgot to post a link to my pinterest, it's an online pinboard when you 'pin' images from around the internet onto boards to share with others. I get alot of my contextual and inspirational images from pinterest which is why I sometimes don't have the artists name attached to each picture.
http://pinterest.com/mugugey/
If I haven't posted here for a few days its possibly because I am addicted to pinning!

So here they are then...

...the pictures I promised the other day! I finally remembered to put them onto my laptop from my camera and sort them out and resize them etc.

So first we have dolly with her thoughts all exploding out of her head and next to her is see-through dolly. I have been working with the first doll quite alot as inspiration really. And the second doll now has mirror stuck to the back of her and she looks like an opal, I like the idea that you can almost see your reflection through the back of her head.

Next I think is the inside and outside of one of the ceramic faces I've been making. I've been using the Body Double cast I made back in Feb and the plaster face I made from that to mould the ceramic clay, then I let it dry a little, tidy it up, then leave it over to be fired. I plan on making quite a number of these so that I can smash some, glaze some, add other materials to some and generally 'play' around with them to see where they lead me to.

I have also been using this absolutely disgusting dental silicone to try to make quick casts of my face. I have to use the dental silicone because the body double takes too long to set and when you're covering your mouth and nose in the stuff you knid of want it to set as fast as possible! Here is a mould I made of a dolls head just so you can see what the silicone looks like. So the image on the left is the mould cut open and the image on the right is dolly stuck in a cup. 

This silicone dries out and disintegrates very quickly (within days) so if you use it to make a mould you will be lucky to get just one cast out of it. But it is very handy for doing things quickly.



Ok so the next picture is of one of the mouths I managed to cast from ceramic clay using the dental silicone mould I had made, and it was the last thing I got out of that mould so they are gone in the bin now and I'll have to make some more. I'm really really pleased with how this mouth came out and I can't wait to fire and glaze it. I'm hoping to be able to make the teeth really shiny and white and the lips a matte pinkyred.

So I'm going to leave you now with one last image. Which is of a doll that I spotted as I left college this evening, she was having a lie down under a tree. Not the kind of place I would choose for a lie down but there you go.

Busy busy stress stress

I've been a bit too busy recently to update my blog, but I have some images of studio work and stuff that I'll upload as soon as I remember to take copy them from my camera to my laptop to my memory stick to this computer. We had our first progress review last week and I'm quite pleased with how it went, I know I have things to work on but I feel more relaxed now knowing that my tutors seem to understand where I'm going and what I'm doing. So I have time now to concentrate on doing my CCS essay.... not so much fun. I'm finding it really difficult to even get started but I know I need to get on top of it and not let it get away from me like I have done in the past. Anyway I better get back to my studio now and stop avoiding my desk.