Mehgan Trice

You are beautiful, but you are empty

These are the polymer clay bird skulls for my animation project, I ended up having these made, I didn't sculpt them. I'm really happy with these! I'll start to work on the armatures for them next week sometime, most likely. I've made a few armatures over the past few months trying to figure out exactly how I'm going to go about making them, I don't have it figured out completely yet but I'm leaning towards making the body similar to a marionette in a way. Since I like the aesthetic of marionettes and ball jointed dolls and I'm not going for complete realism, I don't mind joints showing.

Gesso covered rabbit

Primed the rabbit sculpture tonight, tomorrow I'll start painting it since I like to give gesso at least a few hours to dry.



It's not very visible in this photo but I was a little disappointed when I took it out of the oven to discover that the ears had fallen forward some. I did kind of expect that it might happen though, since I didn't put any wire in them to support them, oh well.



Also I got this texture gel by Liquitex that I'm looking forward to trying out, I'm hoping I can create some kind of fur effect with it. When I tested it on a sheet of paper it turned out a little clumpy but I did apply it with a brush, I'm thinking a pallet knife might be better. Now I just need to find my pallet knives.

Rabbits and Prints

I've been wanting to do something for awhile incorporating my artwork and sculpture together (a small print is supposed to go in frame) and this little guy is what I've been working on lately. This isn't anywhere near complete, but the start of a few ideas I've had. I really need to go ahead and bake this though, he's sitting here on my desk and his ears keep slowly leaning over to the left since I didn't have any wire to help support them. I guess that might help, I really don't know much about sculpting, I just do a lot of guessing and making up things as I go along.



 Also some of the small 4"x6" prints arrived today, the matte finish definitely looks better to me. Now I'm trying to decide if I should leave them like they are or round the corners of them.