ZKK (Mark 2) Visits The Sculpture Studio...

...before sending Zombie Kitty Kawaii!(Mark2) off to her first adventure with Martha I in Retailia, I decided it would be fun for her to visit the Toronto School of Art's Sculpture Studio. Nothing too exciting happened there, but she did get to see her doppelganger in clay. I have finally gotten around to adding the "fur" and and a really rad "spinal column" as well. If you want to check out some of the previous steps, you can go here and here.

Check out the "spine" addition.

 While I was busy adding the "fur", Zombie Kitty Kawaii! (Mark 2) finally wandered over to have a look at what I was doing. I'm not too sure she was impressed as she muttered something in French and proceeded to look for something eat...this cat has a verocious appetite...

Est-ce moi? THPPT!

...luckily, she ran into my friend, Linda, who likes Kats and who was kind enough to share her sushi lunch with ZKK (Mark 2)...

Thhppt!...sushi...

Don't eat all my sushi, Kat!

After lunch (Yes, she ate my turkey sandwich as well.), I packed her up nice and safe...

...and took her to the Post office, where they slapped some international stamps on her and sent her away...

...au revoir, Kitty Kawaii! I look forward to your adventures in Retailia...

Just Add...Skin...

Now that I've finished the armature in all of its tin foil glory, as you can see below, it's time for the skin layer.

 Pasta machines, as I learned, are not only great for making home-made pasta, but are really great for running your Sculpy through, to make it flat and really skin-like. It's really kind of a cool technique. Just don't use the machine ever again for making pasta, unless you want to poison yourself. That would be a bad thing.
Once I had some really flat pieces, I added them on top of the tin foil armature. This saves a lot of clay and the foil structure acts like a skeleton. And, the foil won't catch fire, when you finally bake it (so I am told.). Here are this weeks photos of Zombie Kitty Kawaii! with her first layer of skin:

Now, the fun truly begins. I get to start modelling her!

Wire, Tin Foil And Wood...

...and strong fingers, is all one requires to make the Zombie Kitty Kawaii! armature. When I started this, I could understand the wood and the wire, but the use of tin foil had me perplexed, but no more! Tin foil rocks for this part of the project! The armature quickly took shape, as you can see:

Click here, if you want to see part one, the "Turn Around".

Click here, for part two, the "Zombie Kitty Head".