Rebeka and I have the head ready to be hollowed. She did the face, and I did the braided hair. The babies are ready, and we will be building the rest of the body very soon.
Rebeka has been an amazing teacher, and I'm learning a lot.
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I'm going to be hollowing out this first rabbit base tonight and adding the finishing details and textures. I have two others planned. They will center around an old crate box from my Great Grand Dad Bliss's cattle farm. The second will be standing up to look on top of the box, and the third will be in a long stretch. I think it will go faster, as I'm getting used to the anatomy more and more as I go.
Trying to wrap up the self portrait (excuse the dim basement photo). I have to finish the glasses with line and metal work, then the birds.
My large religious piece is coming along as well. I hope to finish it by Monday. That's another focus tonight. I have a lot of value and line work to finish for sure, but it's going faster the more comfortable I am with it. It also helps to start see parts of the end result. It gives me a more detailed idea of how to wrap it up.
Milo wanted to draw. This is Arthur flying over the buffalo. The buffalo has been hunted and shot a million times. Unfortunately Arthur got blood on him and so did the earth on the left (purple circle under Arthur). Also Moo drew his two hands coming down to the buffalo. WHERE DOES HE COME UP WITH THIS?! Teaches me to let him play Oregon Trail...
This is Arthur, the buffalo and Arthur's sister and dog by Parker. Total opposite of Milo's. I like how they bounced off one another's work as they developed the plot to their pictures.
Ben helped me polish my idea for the interactive project. A little nervous to get started due to the content, but excited about it even more.
I have another smaller wood piece that will be finished by Tuesday as well as another rabbit (I hope). I'm working with Ben's schedule to get more time at school to finish up these projects by the end of November. Attempting to work here, though the kids keep me busy. I get a lot of work done between 10p and 3a.
I'd love to know more about the religious piece. I also like that you're posting more often. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's my response to the religious environment we live in here, in Southern Indiana, as well as globally (as the internet and television bring a bombardment of spiritual and political views to the forefront of daily existence, and my complete loss as to how to navigate my children through it in such a way as to help them avoid lures and propaganda and make a soulful decision as mature adults in the future.
ReplyDeleteI have no preset standard for them by any means, and it's important to me that they learn about all religions and political movements. My fear is the separations certain approaches to spiritually and power struggles create... along with the cracks throughout humanity that grow due to those separations.
The pope hats will have imagery relating to mysticism as well. The goats can be the flock as in the herding religions, or they can represent pagan approaches to spirituality.
I don't think those separations and divisions would occur with such a sharp edge to the boundaries if people were honest about the common ground all religions and political positions share. Behind it all are people, which are animals, trying to fulfill the same needs. As we evolve intellectually we have very different emotional and spiritual needs than other animals.
My hope for my children is that they see similarities that they share with any man/woman/child, and that they don't add to the divisions or dilute their spiritual journey by hidden agendas. But I will always accept their path, so this is rather a way to share that heavy anxiety I have. I don't intend to shelter them, and I cannot possibly control any human being outside of myself nor would I want to. In the bigger picture, I can really offer them little assistance or direction in their journey... That is if I want to let them experience their own life.