Lion Sculpt

Here is my sculpt for the lion mask.  To me, it has more of a tribal mask look to it than many of my previous attempts.  Originally, it was about a half inch shallower (is that a word?) and I wanted to add some depth to it.  So I added half an inch to the base and rebaked it.  The second bake produced cracks around the base and down the right side of the nose.  I filled the cracks around the base and baked it a third time.  This should work out fine for the mold.
See the slight burn on the nose?  I left it in the oven a little too long.

One More Time

I've tried making a lion mask many, many times.  I've done well over a dozen sculpts, and even though a couple made it to the finished product, I was never really completely happy with them.  I have this great vision of what this mask will look like and so I'm taking a stab at a really awesome lion mask one more time.  This mask is many times bigger than the other ones.  It is not going to be a pendant.  This lion mask will be a display piece, home decor.
Here, along with the drawing, is a stencil for the mask.  It keeps the elements of the mask in scale while I'm sculpting.  It also has the tip of the nose and mouth that will only be molded from the colored clay and placed directly on the mask.

Cloud Reflections

I took quite a few photos at French Creek State Park in Pennsylvania.  Here is another one of them with nice foliage colors and some pretty cool cloud reflections.

Dam

Not the bad word.  It's a beaver dam on the edge of the pond at French Creek SP.  It's starting to flood some of the wooded areas.  A group of three women were trying to navigate their way around the dam when one of them slipped on a log and took a nasty fall.  I think she will be okay, but I'm sure she was hurting the next morning.  I think she said "damn" as she was going down!

Ooops

This is a photo of a Fruit Weevil.  There are many types of weevils and one of the things they all have in common is the long snout.

While looking for something to photograph, I thought I had spotted a weevil of some sort.  When I got home to look at my weevil photo, I discovered it was a piece of loose bark.  Time to make an appointment with my eye doctor.

Autumn Reflections

A couple weeks ago, Tater and I visited French Creek State Park in Pennsylvania.  The leaves were almost at their best and here is one of the photos we took.  I say "we" because Tater has shown some interest in taking pics also.

Look! Up In The Sky!

Look!  Up in the sky!  At least it's not another storm.  It's Superman...or Superboy...or super cute...or super something.  Anyway, everything is Inkscape vectors, including the sky and clouds.