I've never sculpted in my life, but for the last week I've been working on doing a rat, in memory of the Petaluma rats, most of whom (over 1,000) have been put to sleep now.
I've been working on it for a week. Here is what I have so far:
I have to smooth the clay out a lot still, make the front ankles smaller, give it eyes and fix the ears, and of course bake and paint it, but I think I'm doing pretty good for somebody who has never sculpted before.
I do not understand why the man is being allowed to keep his cats. There is obviously something terribly wrong with him and he shouldn't be allowed to have animals in his charge. What a horrible story. I am far more outraged that the situation was allowed to continue for so long than that most of the rats have been put down. There are worse things than death, and those rats went through them.
Your sculpture looks like it is coming along nicely.
Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium. ~ Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.----Seneca
And while we're on the subject of Jesus and rats, here's a lovely bit of sermonizing -- Jesus or 1300 Rats. I quit reading it, of course, once I figured out the author was against sin, but I still think that's a lovely title. I like the way it implies a choice.
Crazy for the blue white and red
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
gonzo914 wrote:And while we're on the subject of Jesus and rats, here's a lovely bit of sermonizing -- Jesus or 1300 Rats. I quit reading it, of course, once I figured out the author was against sin, but I still think that's a lovely title. I like the way it implies a choice.
So it didn't have anything to do with a fish shortage, eh?
Cranberry wrote:I've never sculpted in my life, but for the last week I've been working on doing a rat, in memory of the Petaluma rats, most of whom (over 1,000) have been put to sleep now.
I've been working on it for a week. Here is what I have so far:
Is sculpting hard on the joints? Is that why your sculpture is standing on top of a box of spare elbows?
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Either that's a very large rat or it's being caressed by a 2' 4" person.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
If you went much farther in those pictures, you would have noticed that they did too...
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That rat is the size of a small dog or cat ::shiver::
...and thank goodness that it's not a rat!
