BFF.. ?

Inspired by the drawings dear friend and foodie blogger buddy (yes, she draws AND cooks!)... here's my newest ceramic piece, in progress....

But first, the drawing I'm using: 

http://hushtosee.blogspot.in/2012/07/blog-post_842.html

 Go look at the poem that goes with it... it makes it more worth it. 

Just traced- the paper fibers left behind will get fried in the kiln.

Windows

Some details

All the textures

So another round of finalizing the lines and making it more crisp will finish this project, ready to be fired later this week... 

And then it will be (nearly) set in stone, this friendship... 

Baked!

That's just an empty Pizza Hut box with tiles in them that came from the kiln too... not pie.

These are the laugh study models... the life-size laughing head cast is yet to be completed...

Work in progress

 Sorry about the LAME upside down photos.... Blogger won't let me rotate and my computer shows them straight to begin with... urgh.

Ceramic Buttons

The Clay, DONE!

This is waiting to be fired sometime this week, woo hoo!

The Clay, (nearly) Finished

Branches added.....

The Clay, Decorated

Next stage- I carved the gaps, yes; but not all the way through. This way it's still stable and... AWESOME!

The Clay, Scratched

Here'some finishing work on the new piece. The idea here is to make holes only in selected loops so that the structure doesn't get weak. At this stage I wasn't yet sure about what I would do in the blank spaces.

The Clay, Crumbled

This was the first version I did. I carved out the negative spaces and started with the finishing and rascal fellow kept cracking violently! Bah!

So I learned the hard way that too many holes makes for unstable clay....
And I started all over again with a different approach.... awesome that I am.