I end up liking the horses I make when I’m tired and distracted and don’t really feel like making a horse the best. #22, Lorraine is the beginning of an idea for a new ship. Thanks for the comments on the whiplash ship “Perseverance”. After I clean up the giant ship mess I made this morning, I’m looking forward to checking out all the other final whiplash projects. I’m going to miss the weekly assignment and seeing everybody’s interpretation.
I got pretty derailed today by a variety of really frustrating technical difficulties and didn’t accomplish anything even close to what I had hoped to. When all my technical issues finally got resolved I was distracted by my residual annoyance.
I did get today’s horse and a little ship work done though, I made a couple frames and just now got a layer of paper on one side of each frame.
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I love waking up to a nice dry layer of paper mache.
And I re- did the sprinkler painting.
Being two horses behind was driving me nuts. It couldn’t be helped though, the drive home on Friday was a miserable all day downpour type of affair so they had to wait till this morning. I’ve got 16 now and have a better sense what 100 is going to look like; much bigger than I had imagined and I’m starting to have some thoughts about what, if anything, to do with them when it’s over.
#15 Darger
#16 Finn
I went to the flea market and here’s what I got for $6.50.
Finally back to ship building! This one is a little brighter and more translucent. I’m going to try to get another frame built today.
These are some key ship building tools- The clamps were a gift but I think they came from home depot. I don’t know what I ever did without them. They’re light and have little swively grips. And floral tape, I love floral tape.
I finally finished my sprinkler painting
And horse # 14 Dell
Thanks to everybody who commented on the bird party, I feel welcome and encouraged and excited about my brand new blog. All the “chic to classic” entries are great. It’s fun and inspiring having a little window into everybody’s imaginations. I love stuff like whiplash, not because it’s a contest, but because I love an assignment, having a theme imposed maybe sends my thinking somewhere new and the quick deadline makes it impossible for me to get obsessive and suck the spontaneity out of my little project. Given enough time I can suck the spontaneity out of just about anything.
Tuesday’s horse (#13) is giselle. I think this is my favorite horse so far, it’s a little color study for something else I’m working on.
A little bird party, some birds quite chic and others more comfortable in
something classic.
And here’s my first pretty much done ship:
It’s Monday, so I made a horse. That little plan is working out for me in lots of ways: I’m making 100 so there’s no fear of a mistake and even if I don’t like the horse
I make it usually generates an idea, no do-overs allowed so I can’t obsess endlessly, I think the discipline has been good for me and it’s a fine way to start the day.
Yesterday, there was a post about Tinsel Trading Company at Posie Gets Cozy that reminded me of my first visit there a few weeks ago and inspired today’s sparkly horse, “Moon”, horse # 10.
