11-26-2002: Hair-01, Hollow Face Trick
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bonsaikathy joined the room
bonsaikathy: Hi NJ and Mitch
Fearless Leader: I can't see Mitch on the list here
bonsaikathy: whoops thought Mitch was in here must have seen her name
on the main list
bonsaikathy: how's it going
bonsaikathy: sorry about that
Fearless Leader: LOL
Fearless Leader: Oh just setting up. I've gotten over that cold
finally though, Praise God
bonsaikathy: Walked in the door and flew into my sweats and right in
here, haven't been home 5 minutes, haha
bonsaikathy: thank goodness, I'm glad to hear it
Fearless Leader: Well get something to drink, go to the loo, we're the
first here
bonsaikathy: Have you got a minute to see something
Fearless Leader: Sure, you got a cam?
bonsaikathy: yup, hang on and I'll get it set up, brb
Fearless Leader: sure, no problem
bonsaikathy: ok, the one on the left has a green beret and the one on
the right has a sailor hat
Fearless Leader: How cute, LOL
Fearless Leader: having fun with the snow are you?
Fearless Leader: turn them around so I can see the back please
bonsaikathy: yes
Fearless Leader: Too danged cute
Fearless Leader: gonna get arrested for being too cute, ya know
Fearless Leader: have anything else to show me that's new?
Fearless Leader: I love seeing other cams
bonsaikathy: thankyou, I thought of you the whole time I've been doing
these, You've just been so inspiring and so when I do something with
clay it makes me think of you
Fearless Leader: Is that a chop and toss pen?
Fearless Leader: or flowers pressed, hard to tell
bonsaikathy: yes
Fearless Leader: looks like a blue flower there in the middle
bonsaikathy: some of both on some of these pens, haha
Fearless Leader: see...that's how you got me
bonsaikathy: just where it got stretched
Fearless Leader: he he he
Fearless Leader: good idea
Fearless Leader: oh hey, next time you can do it on purpose
bonsaikathy: I did
Fearless Leader: let me show you what I did for clay chores
bonsaikathy: not future finished yet
bonsaikathy: Wow, cool
bonsaikathy: looks like christmas
bonsaikathy: I love them
bonsaikathy: I sent Alicia 40 covered pens, one of them had the
tongues of fire cane I made when you did the demo and I clayed along
and my boss fell in love with it
kmrhodes joined the room
bonsaikathy: Hi Karen
kmrhodes: Hey kiddo
kmrhodes: I have your and NJ's web cam going
bonsaikathy: that's for my son, he's in the navy
kmrhodes: Its really nice
kmrhodes: NJ - too cute!
bonsaikathy: this one has a green beret for my daughter and Jim
kmrhodes: Oh WOW. They are really adorable
kmrhodes: Nice face NJ
bonsaikathy: looks like sadie to me
kmrhodes: who is sadie?
bonsaikathy: see the snowdog watching the hotdog with interest
kmrhodes: yeah
bonsaikathy: NJ's face she did during one of the demos
bonsaikathy: It was great
kmrhodes: and I missed it????
kmrhodes: damn
bonsaikathy: I came in after the fact also and saw the tail end of it
Fearless Leader: Bald headed Leena, has anybody seen her, cute as she
can be
kmrhodes: I get digest and most times its over before I even know its
going on
Fearless Leader: she got a cue ball head that's hard as lead
Fearless Leader: but she's alright for me
Fearless Leader: remember that Lovin' Spoonsful Song?
bonsaikathy: I'm going to turn off the webcam now, I was just showing
NJ the snowmen and some pens I did
kmrhodes: NJ - hows Ruth?
Fearless Leader: Bald headed Leena?
Fearless Leader: Still ticking, that's the best we can say
Fearless Leader: she's very frail
Fearless Leader: Ok, thanks for "snowing" me, Kathy
Fearless Leader:
kmrhodes: You keep loving her - Ruth, that is
bonsaikathy: welcome
Fearless Leader: So, do you want to see how to put hair on one of
these Bald Headed Leenas?
kmrhodes: yeah
kmrhodes: where is everyone?
Fearless Leader: For the sake of being big enough to be seen
Fearless Leader: let's put a FRINGE around Shady Sadie
Fearless Leader: for she's going to be a mask and doesn't need a whole
head of hair
Fearless Leader: just a larger version of THIS...check this out
kmrhodes: Cool
bonsaikathy: Now that is neat
kmrhodes: Your large head - is it from scratch or something else
bonsaikathy: the large one is Sadie
kmrhodes: Is it all clay or paper mache covered with clay?
bonsaikathy: I missed the demo but I think it's got a tinfoil core if
I"m not mistaken
Fearless Leader: hold up
bonsaikathy: ok
kmrhodes: holding......
faye_shelton joined the room
bonsaikathy: HI Faye
kmrhodes: Hi Faye
faye_shelton: Hi there
kmrhodes: Kathy, how do you like those cutters I sent you..... they do
the trick?
Fearless Leader: ok, I'm ready
Fearless Leader: I'll stick my finger in for size reference
kmrhodes: 2" or so?
Fearless Leader: so that red pin with the weird cut face is about the
size of a silver dollar
Fearless Leader: it's a "loose weight now, ask me how" sized pin
Fearless Leader: general promotion pin, they all can go into the oven
Fearless Leader: easy as dirt to cover
kmrhodes: Ah, herbalife
Fearless Leader: and are a great canvas
Fearless Leader: Who hasn't seen a face mold, Faye?
Fearless Leader: let me get some
faye_shelton: nope, I haven't, NJ
Fearless Leader: I hate it when I clean up, I can't find squat
bonsaikathy: Sorry Karen went to get my emails downloaded real quick,
I haven't had a chance to use the cutters yet but when I do they will
be perfect, so thanks darling
bonsaikathy: I"m the same way NJ
kmrhodes: The trick to cleaning up is to keep everything similar
together
kmrhodes: except I never do! LOL
Fearless Leader: It's the oddest thing, it's this large tuppaware of
molds and I've put it away too good.
Fearless Leader: it's probably so close it'll bite me if it were a
snake
kmrhodes: probably propping something up? Or under the table?
Fearless Leader: found it
kmrhodes: gosh, that looks like one of my drawers!
bonsaikathy: Same mold differant look correct????
kmrhodes: yep, thumbs up
Fearless Leader: ok, what did you figure out from that show and tell
Fearless Leader: you tell me and I'll have a quick smoke
kmrhodes: You can use the same mold to make a variety of faces
Fearless Leader: just by...
Fearless Leader: doing...
faye_shelton: add expression, characteristics, details, as you go
Fearless Leader: good girl, Faye
kmrhodes: adding or deleting clay - altering feathers
Fearless Leader: incremental face sculpting with molds
faye_shelton:
kmrhodes: not feathers
kmrhodes: features
Fearless Leader: I'm all for putting feathers in a face mold
Fearless Leader: and doing things that most people wouldn't think of
Fearless Leader: who puts leaves and tiger or zebra slices into a face
mold but us
kmrhodes: Shhhh - don't tell!
Fearless Leader: everyone else are deer in the head lights
Fearless Leader: on the clay road
Fearless Leader: chop and toss mirror images in a face mold
kmrhodes: they have the FEAR
Fearless Leader: pressed sheets in a face mold
Fearless Leader: yup and are stuck in looking at the market
Fearless Leader: claying for dollars
Fearless Leader: instead of experimenting
Fearless Leader: and claying from the dream land of our creative
subconscious
kmrhodes: same ole, same ole
Fearless Leader: thank you very much
kmrhodes: Lets have a round of applause!
bonsaikathy:
Fearless Leader: Let me show you something that Boozrkitty/Jen made
back in the day
bonsaikathy: wow, it's fantastic
kmrhodes: put it on Ebay!
Fearless Leader: naw it's a gift
Fearless Leader: it's the blood letting ritual
Fearless Leader: of the Aztecs
kmrhodes: Nice gift!!!!!
Fearless Leader: she's running a rope through her tongue
Fearless Leader: to gather blood
Fearless Leader: to give to the Gods
Fearless Leader: for Rain
bonsaikathy: ouch
Fearless Leader: there's a bowl that goes under her
kmrhodes: I can think of less painful ways to do it
Fearless Leader: men would pierce their penises
Fearless Leader: so ...I'd go for the tongue
kmrhodes: OW
bonsaikathy: double ouch
Fearless Leader: she made mini jade tube beads
faye_shelton: wow. had to use something like a wire or a straight pin
for a mandrel, I bet
kmrhodes: straight pin would work
Fearless Leader: Or
Fearless Leader: roll the clay on the string
Fearless Leader: you're going to have the beads
Fearless Leader: on
Fearless Leader: in the end
Fearless Leader: and then just cut to size
Fearless Leader: one long tube on a string
faye_shelton: yep. easy-breezier, eh?
Fearless Leader: that's the ticket
Fearless Leader: ok, something else to check out
Fearless Leader: the first basket weave flip out
Fearless Leader: just doing baskets like a nut case
Fearless Leader: so I figured
Fearless Leader: got to make a basket seller
Fearless Leader: her dress is chop and toss sheets
bonsaikathy: That's a great piece
kmrhodes: Really Nice NJ
Fearless Leader: she's not Futured yet so her colors aren't at their
best
bonsaikathy: love the baskets
faye_shelton: me too. love her face
faye_shelton: nice fabric
Fearless Leader: here's an earlier experiment in doing turbans and
draping clay fabric
Fearless Leader: and we get those zig zags with which technique?
kmrhodes: He's a cutie!
kmrhodes: Is this a quiz?
Fearless Leader: yup
kmrhodes: I forgot to study!
bonsaikathy: Hey NJ, before I forget thanks for the tip on scrambling
the egg to blow it out
faye_shelton: chevron flip, perhaps?
bonsaikathy: I did my first one yesterday and it came out easily
Fearless Leader: Faye gets a prize
Fearless Leader: dunno which one
Fearless Leader: an extra petal on her homework daisy
Fearless Leader: LOL
faye_shelton:
Fearless Leader: yes, go crazy with stacked sheets
kmrhodes: My dog ate my homework!
Fearless Leader: and do chevron flips like crazy
Fearless Leader: cut out sheets and toss together a folk costume
Fearless Leader: if you can't sculpt hair
Fearless Leader: you can wrap a turban
Fearless Leader: and call it a day
Fearless Leader: using the face molds
Fearless Leader: and some foil for the body
Fearless Leader: toss some pressed sheets
Fearless Leader: and you're done
Fearless Leader: I want to show you the hollow face phenomena
boobearns joined the room
bonsaikathy: Hi Doro
boobearns: Hi
Fearless Leader: lookie
boobearns: is that face going in or out?
bonsaikathy: inside
boobearns: thanks, I was seeing it both ways...couldn't decide
bonsaikathy: it can be difficult
kmrhodes: Is it made from elasticlay or reg premo?
Fearless Leader: ok
Fearless Leader: that trick of the eye
Fearless Leader: the hollow face
Fearless Leader: is one way to CHECK your work
Fearless Leader: when you've made a mold
Fearless Leader: before committing it to a curing
Fearless Leader: turn it to a mirror
Fearless Leader: is the nose pressed right
Fearless Leader: are the eyes defined enough
Fearless Leader: if not ...make some precuring sculpting changes
Fearless Leader: using that mirror trick
Fearless Leader: you can see it as it will be after curing
Fearless Leader: by looking at it as a reflection
Fearless Leader: it's such a great trick
Fearless Leader: no surprises when we cure a mold and then make an
impression
Fearless Leader: finding that the nose looks like it lost a bar fight
Fearless Leader: on a pretty girl's face
Fearless Leader: ya know?
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