How to make a big mess over a long weekend:
One of the many joys of having two kids in two schools is that their time off does not always line up. The younger one was at home today, both are off on Monday, and the older one is home on Tuesday.
Foolishly, I thought this would be a good time to start a project we've been talking about- making some cardboard and plaster sculptures of the characters for that web comic which we still haven't written yet. I thought maybe I could work with each child alone, as joint time in my studio tends to devolve into a play-fighting brawl. Each kid picked his favorite- Space Pig for the younger and the Land Shark for the older.
I tried to put the two characters together in a nondescript space on this napkin without much success. My younger son told me that I had made the pig look scary and weird. The older son pointed out that I neglected to include the flaming chainsaws that the shark requires.
We did manage a little work on the sculpture today... It quickly became clear that my son was mostly interested in weapon design...and maybe this weapon he's building will be so cool that he cannot bear to see it plastered onto a pig sculpture and will have to keep it for himself...
In the bottom picture, you can see that I made very little progress on Space Pig. We spent a lot of time debating which way his joints should bend- whether they should be porcine-accurate or humanoid.
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