All By Myself.

I had a good day yesterday, I went up to the studios to collect materials I would need for the day and had a lovely surprise from my fellow artist, Clive. He had bought me a portfolio to put my work in, to protect it, as well as a large piece of paper that I could do a drawing on, to say sorry. The day before he had accidently got paint on one of my paintings so I had to cut a part off of it. It was cute moment, I offered but he didn’t want any money for it. He didn’t have to get me it, bless him, it still makes me smile when I think about it.

After this, still enthusiastic about the sculpture workshop, I went downstairs to the area we worked in on Tuesday and began. I dug my holes, mixed together the sand, plaster and water (which turned out to be messy work on my own) and poured it into my sand moulds. Then the waiting began again. It was actually quite lonely and I didn’t know what to do with myself, so I paced around, cleared things away, swept up, and ate food. I also noticed a vast number of zimmer frames, which was a bit creepy, what happened to the old people?!… I think I had added too much water, which I had to wait even longer than I probably should, but I got to the point where I could bear it no longer.

I had to dig my sculptures out with my hands, because I couldn’t lift up the boxes to release them on my own.It was all going well until I had nearly finished and a massive spider appeared from the sand. It scared me greatly! You may think I’m exaggerating and that it was probably ownly a diddy one, but I am not! Small ones don’t bother me. Anyway, with my fragile sculptures set free and trying me best not to break them (possibly from not having enough plaster in them, or too much water, or a combination of the two) I went to wash them down and get rid of the excess sand. This was my favourite part, I enjoyed seeing the water reveal what was underneath. You can see the results below. I have decided to leave them to dry slightly over the weekend before attempting to do anything to them. Hopefully I’ll be able to work on them the beginning of next week, we’ll see (like always).