Today was a busy one (complete with a Super Bowl party -- oh joy) on my end, so I didn't have the chance to work on my
'29 Faces Challenge' pieces as I would have liked. Still, as much as I would love to be showing yet off another completed project right now, I can report I did at least manage to make some progress on a hanging, unresolved 3D project today that has been nagging me for years. This is not going to look like much I'm afraid, but trust me when I say that it involves a 'face' and that a necessary first step was accomplished here, which will allow me to continue on toward completion of the project....
Years ago I created a 3D papier mache figure of a crow. All was good and well....that is, until my raging, free-ranging house bunny (sadly no longer with us) somehow got a hold of him, and chewed off his face:
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| Silly Rabbit! |
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| Faceless Mr. Crow Needs Surgery, STAT. |
So I've been thinking. Faceless as he is now and essentially starting over, I could actually go anywhere with this. The obvious thing would be to give him another crow face (with a beak, et al) -- but why do the obvious thing....? Rather, with this second chance for a do-over, I could go in an entirely different, and more interesting, direction. Well, I'm still ruminating on it -- but at this point I think I've pretty much decided I wont be giving him another boring crow face. Thing is though, I actually couldn't do anything (crow or non-crow) for him until that gaping crater was repaired and a new foundation built up upon which to work. So, that's what I did today -- reinforcing and fixing the big hole that was his 'face', so I can go on to give him a whole new one. (*Plus while I'm at it, I'm intending to create a 'base' for him from the hummus container lid he is standing on, and fix his feet, in order to give him better free-standing stability.....
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| Behold! The Beginnings of a Brave New 'Face'. |
