Feb 25 2009
Still Working on Sam Houston
Garrett’s Sam Houston project is due on Friday. We began it last week and I posted pictures of our beginnings here.
We have been so busy doing so much that we just hadn’t got around to working on the statue. So, today we just didn’t have a choice but to really get working on it, since it is due Friday!
So, tonight we worked to get his head on. Then while I worked on his nose, Garrett worked on the hair. After attaching his nose I tried cutting out eye holes, but I kept hitting his nose and messing it up!
Garrett pointed out that his once-perfect-nose, was now crooked.
I told him that no one has a perfectly straight nose anyway and I am sure that Sam Houston had his rough times where he bumped his nose. So… as far as we know, the statue’s nose could be “perfect” for what Sam Houston’s nose really looked like!
Garrett didnt’ buy that….
I worked harder to get it straight.
Then, in order to make the hair, I suggested that Garrett take the knife and cut squiggles through it to make it look like hair.
Unfortunately, he cut straight through the clay to make long thin lines. I encouraged him to try again-this time without cutting all the way through.
He managed it and did a good job.
So, we attached all the hair around the sides and I told him all he had to do was the top.
He asked me if I was sure Sam Houston wasn’t bald on top?
We had a picture from online that we were using as a guide, but my lap top kept going into energy save since I didn’t have it plugged in and with my hands covered with clay it was too hard to keep turning it on. So, I assured him that it was ok to add hair on the top.
After that, we decided to stop and we would finish it up tomorrow. After we cleaned up I looked at the picture of Sam and realized that he was bald and had much more prominent sideburns!
So, tomorrow we will have to remove his top hair and we have more details to add. But this is where we are at now!
