October 15, 2010

Earthling or Alien?

I'm working on a new piece, laughing at myself as I ponder whether this one looks more like an Earthling or alien.  Sculpting is hard!  The practice causes me to lose all sense of time.  It's been a long while since that's happened.  Concentrating on the work and silencing the inner critic is still a challenge, but I'm certainly doing better than a few weeks ago.

I've worked with Sculpey clay for a number of years and don't know if this extra squishy batch is squishy because of the colour, or what.  It's a mash up of four separate packages of the same colour and feels odd.  Every time I sculpt one part of the face, another looks like the melting Wicked Witch of the West.  I've got to work on sculpting without smooshing.  How can I wrangle those out of control fingers?

Back to the grindstone.