Thursday, November 13, 2008

PPP earrings


    The last commission I worked on was a gift for the local cross country coach from her team.  The cool thing about this commission was that I was able to use the coach's own drawing for the earrings.  Unfortunately I had to lower the back leg of the runner so she was either just starting out or running slower than the original drawing.  If I had kept the leg where it was the earring would have been waaaaay too wide.  I also had to eliminate some of the little detail in the hat but I think it worked out anyway.  I hear she was wearing them the other day.  How cool is that to wear your own drawings on your ears? 

   I made them using a Photopolymer plate, which is really an easy process.  It just takes a little experimenting on the computer to see how they'll look when they shrink.  I used Standard clay for these so they would shrink a lot.  That gave me the chance to work bigger, but not have huge earrings.   I was pleased with the way they turned out.  What do you think? 

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