Post #371723 by Babalu on Fri, Apr 4, 2008 10:51 PM

Well, it's Billy the Crud! My cosa your cosa brother. I hear tell you just picked a shit load of 6'ers up...sorry I missed that run man...

Clarita, Why sure I would love to have you over to the studio to play in some clay any day. You really do need to get over here for a visit to this Country. I think you would have a blast...I know that Simon would LOVE to have you over too!

Built just a little more tonight, spent time taking off clay on the inside of the creatures. The goal is to make them look heavy when they are really light...if the birds can be thinner. Less weight on the rim.

Thought you might find this interesting. In order to make this clay easier to work and keep it moist on the bottom without worry, I decided to line the plastic form bowl with a trash bag. Then I placed the (now smooth underside) clay bowl back into the form. Now I can work the top side and not have to worry about the bottom side. There is a hole in the bottom of the form big enough to allow the base to hang through...I then suspended the whole thing on top of this glass bowl so that there would be no pressure at all on the base while I am working he top section. Top and bottom will both need to dry together.

More progress later on....