I am on a roll

I have been quite busy since my last post, so I am just going to briefly go through what I have been getting up to.....

For starters I went off to the €2 shop in Limerick today and found a jelly making brain mould (DELIGHTED) off I went anyways to buy jelly, who knew you can be soooooooooooo indecisive when it comes to buying jelly??? Come on... I eventually settled on a mix of flavored jellies and I also bought natural jelly snakes (you know the healthier ones...as if). I was in my element while making it he he.

I made the bottom half of the cast first and added some jelly snakes into it, left it set and then done the top half the same  aaaaaaaaaaand fineto...it was complete! Not very tempting to eat though, gross a brain!!

It has now been fully eaten my darling siblings!

I have finished glazing some of my ceramic brains that came out of the kiln during the week. I am well pleased how they turned out and I have a few more pieces that went in to be fired today.  With the massive half brain I done im planning on getting people to wear it and do a few shots but all depending what glaze colourings I will use as the pose must suit the colours. The colours of the rainbow are for happy people, or drunken people etc... Or purples, blues and greys for people in bad moods and soooooo on....

Still disappointed on losing some documentation but at least I have a few of my leastest images to show you all!!....

I also made a very very very basic wire brain, it was my way to show the delicacy and the value the brain is, although it was quick and simple to make I enjoyed getting to experiment with different materials!!...

Speaking of materials, yes I was learning how to knit and yep I don't think I will be making a fancy mad brain like the artist Marjorie Talyor haha....

Kitted brain by Marjorie Taylor

but I have picked up on it and seen as my mother is left handed I am learning the way left handed people knit....I think I will be well confused doing it the right handed way. Overall it's not a waste learning how to knit like left handed people because I am learning new skills and I can learn to experiment with knitting in others ways into my project.

 
This is related to my last post which I made a cast from clay and pressing jelly snakes into it.I then  filled the mould with hot wax....unfortuetly it was broken into smidderings!! aaaahhh well but heres a picture how it was done!!