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.