For those of you that have been curious about the status of my Luna sculpture, I finally got a chance to go check on it Thursday. I was afraid that it might have dried out too much since no one was there to spray it down for almost two weeks, but to my surprise is was fine. While I was making the repairs to the legs, I took some paper towels, wet them, and covered the head, back, and ears with them. I figured this would keep everything moist better than spraying it down every few hours while I was waiting for the repairs to set. It worked perfectly. The only drawback to this? Those paper towels sat there moist for almost two weeks and started to grow some nasty looking stuff on them. I mean nasty, black fungi/mold/I dont know what it was. I definitely had to put fresh paper towels on them. lol

The good news is that the repairs should definitely be set now and I can continue with the build. I'll go back Tuesday and see if I can't start again. Tuesday's when summer classes start so my teachers will definitely be up there if I need help.


Other News

I took the gift certificate I won in the Welovefine contest and ordered my shirt as well as the grand prize winner. I got those in yesterday morning. I have to say that while I'm mostly happy about the way my shirt turned out, I wish I could have done some things differently with my design.

See when I downloaded the submission package it had a PSD file with all the different colored shirts I could put a design on as well as a bounding box showing where I should put my design. The instructions said that all designs are recommended to be no larger than 15"x19" and that they recommend that they stay within a designated bounding box. I adhered to the recommendations and submitted my designs. But when I started seeing all the other designs (the ones that won especially) they were bigger that the 15"x19" recommendation and some were outside the bonding box. If I would have known that it would have been okay to go against the recommendations, I would have blown up my design and set it in the lower right corner of the shirt so that dash would have been flying all the way across the shirt.

Oh well.

All I can say is that this was a learning experience that I won't forget. I'm going to try my best to make some new personal artwork in the next few weeks and send a portfolio to the guys at Welovefine. I could go ahead and link them to my DA, but I feel like the work I've done so far isn't my best and I think I could do better if I took the time to make some quality art/designs.