Lady Joyceley

I added some light green to the edges of the leafs. Don’t know if I want to make some adjustments but we’ll see. 

I did some more painting today. I’m still going to add more color to the leafs and then I’m going to continue to the rest of the sculpture. 

I finally brushed the dust off this little guy and continued painting it. It is taking me an eternity to finish this but I’m getting there.  I also finally decided to make an instagram account that I’ll hopefully keep and update, if you want you can follow me @ladyjoyceley. 

Here is how far I got with painting today. I am painting the green parts of the plant first. Trying to recreate the gradients on the stem and leaves is probably the hardest part. I am layering on the gradients and then I will add more detail as I go. After that I will repeat the same process on the leaves.

Finally started painting! :) Which means I am nearing the end of this project. I already started on something else a while ago so that is what I will be working on next. But for now I will be busy painting. After I have painted the plant I will make fake dirt to fill the rest of the terra cotta pot with. I put some paper towel around the pot so it wouldn’t get paint on it while I am painting. 

I sanded and then put another coat of paint on it today. I am almost ready to start giving this monster some color! I hope you guys are looking forward to the end result, I know I definitely am. 

I finally got around to buy some spray-paint. I put the first base coat on the cowplant so after it has dried I can start sanding again. I’m going to put a couple of coats on this while sanding in between coats. I covered up the lower half of the sculpture so I wouldn’t get paint on the flower pot, which I want to keep the way it is.

I added thorns, some more roots (which I am not quite satisfied with so I may remove/redo them) and I attached the “body” to the flower pot. I put some sculpey there for support while the Apoxie inside is curing. 

I made some progress on the cowplant today. I added the first roots and drilled an extra hole with my dremel for the tail. I had to cut of the tail from the body, which wasn’t in my game plan for this sculpture but it had to be done (sadface). I am adding some more roots after these apoxie roots are cured. 

I bought a couple of small terra cotta pots. I bought a back up terra cotta pot and a back up for my back up, just in case..I was afraid I would break them when doing what I was planning on doing, which was drilling holes into them. My first attempt went fine thankfully. The holes in the pot are a bit too neat and round so I will try and rough them up a bit. When I was on the hunt for the terra cotta pots I also bought a base for the whole thing to rest upon.

I did some sculpting today and yesterday. I made some more leaves and I started sanding the body. Still have to finish the mouth but I’m gonna wait with that a little longer. 

I’m having a bit of a fight with the leaves on my little monster’s head. This is my....4th attempt? Hopefully there won’t be a 5th, but there probably will be hahah. I haven’t worked on it much this past week (not at all really...) but I hope I’ll feel up to working on it more this week. In other news ; I’m going home for Christmas! I’m really excited to see my family and our dogs again, I miss them a lot. The jet-lag will be worth it!

I’m working on some leaves right now, she needs quite a few. Got a couple more to go but it’s past 9pm so I’m done for today. It’s going to be fun to paint this one I think! :)

Her head is taking shape! I am not satisfied with the mouth yet so this still needs some work but here is a progress picture anyway.

I made the upper part of the head and baked it so I can work on the lower half of the head without distorting the rest. I’m going to put some more Apoxie on the leaves to give them a bit more shape and refine them.

It is starting to look like something! Something very weird, but still. Something. After I got home from work, I ate dinner and started working on this tiny monster again. She is only about 11cm tall! The wires for the horns are way too long right now but I’ll trim them once I start working on them.