This is where I got stuck. Realistic head or not? I guess that’s a question for tomorrow. On a second look I know why her right foot was difficult to work on. She should be on her tippy toe. At least her left side looks good.
Frontal view. Her arms are not that gratious from this angle, but they’re look ok from above.
I’m afraid I’m going to make her bronze colour too, but I’ll try to cover the shine as much as possible.
There will be three cariatides on the vase. Nr.1 is almost done. The challenge with this piece is the folds of the dress. I’ve never done folds yet, so it took me a long time to get to this point. She has a fuller figure on the pics for some reason. Must be my camera.
This for you, Swallows. 
This one here got bored of the job.
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Honestly, I don’t know whether to cry or laugh histerically. This morning disaster struck. Just as I was taking off the plastic, a head crashed down on the table. There were tiny cracks before but I did not suspect something this bad would happen. Conclusion: this air-dry clay won’t stick to glass as paper mache does. Big mistake.
To make the best of a bad situation, what you think I came up with? To glue it back. Hot glue seemed like a good idea, it’s pretty strong. Second big mistake. Problem is it dries in a second, just like crazy glue. &*@# ! So here is the result of my genius idea:
Ok, you can laugh now. I can of course use the collage approach, as the rest of her body comes off, and put it together in an outrageous way. Funny as it is, I almost like her better now. She’s still pretty, but vulnerable. Her face is almost madonna-like in this twisted position. I guess that’s the best I can do, reassemble the body parts in a grotesque way. And now I’m gonna go and mourn…
Electricity power lines always strike me as modern day giants. From a distance sometimes they look like an army, don’t they? Imagine, how would you feel if you arrived from a different planet… intimidated, threatened? We humans see them as annoying, but necessary eyesores, but when I see them in great numbers, they strike me as an exraordinary army of giants.
I could only find this platoon, but I liked them next to the trees, I had to take a picture.
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