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I have four days left before completing my model race car for upcoming designer’s conference. I am not only sculpting for fun and practice, I am doing this for a cause to encourage our young minds to be future CREATORS! I do encourage everyone of all ages to practice some type three dimensional on software, programming or traditional to study depth of an object and shape. I will write little more about the event happening at the conference once I complete my project.

This is my first time working on wood since a Creative Process and Beginning Sculpture at college, so it’s a been awhile. I am happy that I am using rotary tools to make the shape of a race car without drawing lines. Well I drew important lines to cut holes for the headlights, wing and hood. I was pretty careful using the saw bit to cut the wing; otherwise, I would have cut through the plastic table. After cutting and sanding, I primed five layers of gray primer before sanding again to reduce the appearance of wood grain. I continue this process so that the car be smooth as a pebble. Once this process complete, I will spray paint the car in either lilac or lagoon…Until next time, happy painting!

I received my materials for the Stumptown40′s 2^nd Annual contest. The points of this contest are about creativity, functionality and mainly, have a great time with the product. I have not begun on this project yet but I have purple, blue and fins (or duck pillow feathers) in mind. I have to remember to keep the weight of my derby car under 5 ounces; otherwise, I will be disqualified from the contest. In addition, I cannot paint or have anything oil that will not dry before or at the time of the contest event. Below are photos of the materials…Good luck to me!

I have never in my life wanted to make necklaces or jewelry pieces until now. Over the weekend, I went to Micheals Arts and Crafts store in Mountain View to buy pens, Prismacolor pen set; instead, I glanced at the beads that were located near the Easter products sold in front of the store. I asked my boyfriend about making necklaces, and I was stunned to know that he made jewelry from beads at a young age. He explained to me a simple technique of making beaded jewelry pieces which consists of string, beads or stones, pillars, clasp and crimps…And that was it. I was like, “Really, that is all I need to make a necklace?” and he nod. Later in the evening I began making my very first necklace while I was watching, “Puss in Boots” on iTunes, and I estimated about an hour and thirty minutes of making the necklace.

Last weekend I re-visited my storage to find clothes to place inside the blue bins for charity. I have a few boxes filled with clothes that I need to give away at some point except for my mother’s leather jacket and my late grandmother’s stonewashed cowgirl-style jean jacket that she gave to me when I was in high school. Yeah, stonewashed was popular in the 90s but not my taste of style. Anyway, I had this clay sculpture that I made sometime in my last year at CSU Hayward (now Eastbay) and it was wrapped in a bath towel.

It was my first clay sculpture I made for myself and it is not hollow. The size of the face is the same size as young adult size but it intended to look like toddler. I need to do research on the differences shaping child and adult.

I began with a round head shaped and later carved the ears, mouth and eyes. I am not sure what is up with the mouth but I am going to assume I was trying to make mouth whistle. The nose, cat-like eyes and extra set of ears was done separate. I know I was trying to sculpt a human doll but I did not succeed too well. Instead, I made it look like a demon or a god-like statue. Don’t worry, I don’t worship what I sculpt, draw and develop as my holiness or “Master of the Universe” cartoon character.

The face is not complete; however, I may take this head and re-sculpted as human being before I freak anyone or myself as I progressive age…Or use it as a step ladder. I am hoping to find more clay and a shop to make this sculpture bronzed. I will come back to this later in time, but in the meantime, I need to focus completing the sketchbook before the end of November.