Boy, have I been hitting "delete" and "backspace" a lot this afternoon! I should NOT blog when I'm in a funk. It is just so easy to fuss and grump and think about things I wish were different. Time to put on my big girl pants, give them a wicked yank and snap out of it. Good grief.
I spent a second day in the studio working on a new piece and using the glass eyes I bought. I suck! Not the kind of suck that has me upset and reworking the piece, but the kind of suck where I can laugh at how terrible my sculpting skills are and how wonky the face of this poor piece looks. It's really quite amusing. Surprisingly, I'm not losing my mind about it. The squishing of the clay and experimenting with scale (OK, I'm not experimenting as much as I just can't get it right) has been very relaxing. I had hoped to find some of that polymer clay that has fibers in it that give it the look of stone, but have discovered that living in a dusty neighborhood seems to be doing a lovely job of adding fiber to the clay while I work with it. :-)
Since I am not going to be able to attend Art and Soul this year with too many (major) family calendar conflicts, I think I'm going to take the leap and take an online course. Some folks may think it's no big deal, but while I am the class clown in public, I'm the terrified kid in my head when it comes to stuff like this.
Time to put away the blog, clean up the studio and get a glass of wine. Cheers!
