After yesterday’s penguin and duck photo, I was still in the mood to do a little sculpting. The nice thing about clay that never hardens is that it never hardens; you can work with it at a slow slow pace and it doesn’t become a solid mess that you can’t manipulate. The downside is that it never hardens; worse yet, it gets softer as you work it so fingerprints show up and it doesn’t hold its shape. It can be kind of a nightmare. Especially if you are working with small stuff anyway.
I started out, still on an animal them and made a small herd of sheep. I even made one with a black body, but I made the head and feet white. So, it wasn’t so much a black sheep as it was a negative sheep, which was fine with me since I am a photographer, but I couldn’t come up with any sort of positive message or even a reason to post the picture. So I herded the sheep and penguins and duck away and started over.
That led to trying to make a hand. I’m still not 100% sure what I was going to do with said hand, but it turned out to be less awesome than I had hoped. After I wrapped it around a lump of clay I thought it looked like it was trying to pull itself onto the thing and thought I should do a picture with little climbing people. So I started to make some little climbing folks. Then my rule about what I was allowed to use and what I wasn’t came back to bite me. What was I going to have them climb? I have some bricks and things lying around, but that would have been using stuff I owned that wasn’t photography equipment so I didn’t feel like I could use it. I was going to use a lens, but I decided that a tripod would be a better idea. Thank goodness for loopholes.