It's hard - motivating myself to get started on new ideas and finishing off half made pieces. Christmas domestics drive everything - poorly pony, poorly cat, freezing weather, excess in most things dull the creative spark. Started again yesterday and wrote a list, this posting is the first thing on it.
I have taken Will's advice and started to make the composit pieces as a unit rather than separate components fixed together. It certainly suits the medium to do this, but I can't get the same movement into the herds. The earthenware pieces break too easily and this is frustrating because that means I have to wait another fortnight to get the animals fired to stoneware - and I loose the colour. I thought I could buy a new kiln this January but my saved up spends have got eaten up with the bloody domestics again! Here's a herd -
I like the idea of a running herd because there is lots of movement especially when the unit tilts. I am looking for some slte or similar to use as a base. Apart from these and the associated drawings I am still on my journey with the unicorns. They now have other creatureas with them as I originally intended and by the beginning of 2011, I hope to have got a big one under way. Watch this space( if there is anyone out there) and here is a unicorn in the snow to be getting on with but it is rather too 'my little pony' for my taste but has now been improved by the amputation of its horn.
Happy New Year! Happy New Diet!
