Blood will Flow

Just heard I've got a sculpture to paint this year! I'm excited because two trails had already failed to select any of mine (including my home town - AGAIN!!), and though I know there are several trails yet to decide, I was getting despondent without real cause.

Any way - Hastings want my Bayduck Tapestry design and I'm delighted! The ducks are huge, so I'm hoping me and my friend Lois, who's also had one picked, will be able to fit them both into the Makerspace building where we painted our elephants last year, because we should be getting them delivered in a couple of weeks time! Meep!

To give you an idea of the size, here's one that's already been painted by someone else.

My friend Lois and I got out ducks in a row this morning, and took them for a photoshoot in the park.
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Can you tell who he is yet?


Two coats of varnish and I remembered to paint his accessory before I coated him, so that was fortunate. Less fortunate was thinking using water-based felt tip pens was a good idea, then finding blue and black smearing all over his pretty pink face when I started with the varnish. Oops!

I'm in two minds about the fez. My friend the crazy Kiwi artist who is an expert at construction amazing additions to these sculptures (and plastic ducks) tells me to fill the fez with P40 and upholstery foam before P40'ing the hat to his head. Which is fine but I can see it going horribly wrong.