journal cover.....done

samples from other students

Ok I did this all backwards......these are pictures of what the other students made in the class. scroll down to see what Jerry and I made and a description of the class we took.

Dawn's cold blooded journal

mine measures 8 x 10 and doesn't have a title nor is it finished at all.
The base of the chest was a plastic mans chest with lots of abs. I built up her boobs with the clay and then crackled it.
The spout is a hard rubber toy that I had found out in the field years ago. It too has been crackled
The eyes are parts from an old necklace

Jerry's cold blooded journal

above is the top part of the journal where he used parts of a necklace to imbed into the clay to look like they are coming out of the skin.

On Saturday Jerry and I took a class from Michael de Meng - Cold Blooded Journal. The cold blooded theme was because we were using a product - Krackle - that gives you the look of a reptile's skin. If you arn't familiar with Michael's work go here http://www.wix.com/demeng/michael-demeng and check it out. Here are some photos of the work that Jerry and I did:
This is jerry's piece. it measures 5 x 8 and he titled it "keeping an eye on my wishes".
He used a taxidermy eye and built up around it with apoxy clay in the picture below you can see how he brought the clay up on the top of the eye. It almost looks like fingers coming around the eye. He mainly used red and black for his color and then used the crackle over the entire thing. It is just exquisite and so tactile to hold.

This is Michael critiquing Jerry's piece. His critiques are always so positive and his suggestions well thought out.