So close!

I just cut the skeleton for the last layer of this endless piece! The end is in sight!

(Now that I think of it, the above outline kinda looks like the door to the afterlife from "Beetlejuice.")

I plan to bring the piece to Artfest in two -- two! -- weeks, and you know how these things need to set and air out for a little. Plus I'm factoring in whatever rain we'll get during the coming days. Dampness always slows down the setting process.

Also need to add one, maybe two finishing touches to the central figure. 

Projects expand to fit the time available...

You can see more work-in-progress photos on my Facebook fan/friends page. Go look!

Under construction

"What do you do, Lisa?"
[smirking like a mob boss] "I'm in construction."

I'm also doing interior design. Not up to code, but it's not a permanent structure.

I got five micro-steps done today before heading to the office. So I'll call myself productive.

And so does my grandmother. For the moment.

Do something about that color, willya?

I found a perfect little castle for the current piece, except it was really...

Pink.

Like an abandon-all-self-determination-ye-who-enter-here shade of pink. The castle used to be the base of a wire photo holder, with a fairy on top. Gaaaah. Thank goodness for acrylics.

Covered the offending color with white, but it took some work to get it looking less like I stole it from one of The Boy's female friends. (Um, I didn't steal it from any of The Boy's friends.)

 

Even the pink bricks aren't so obnoxious now they have a little moss growing on them. Another reason I had to knock down all that pink: There's already a lot of purple in this piece.

 

Pink and purple? Noooo. Even if I had a daughter, there wouldn't be a pink-and-purple room in my own house. Onward.