Wednesday, June 30, 2010  Sculpture and Cars #2  It really
doesn't pay to go against your gut instincts.  I HATE tatoos and
piercings and low brow art. The gear shift design company wanted
skulls, piercings, frankensteins and devils. You know the art,
flaming eyeballs. I tried it as a test of my skills. How fast
could I make something disgusting?  My starting concept was a
burned out, meth-addled old biker devil. An old goat. The final
thing was using a dress maker pin to stand in for a pierced
tongue.  I was 90 minutes into creating this head for a gear
shift when I realized it wasn't going to be worth finishing. I
needed to spend less than half an hour on the art to make any
profit at all.   Now my problem is that there's something alive
about his eyes. I can't just dump him back in the smushed clay
bin. Can I close his mouth and change him from old biker dude to
an even older Pan? Change from cars, which have never held my
interest, to the garden, which fascinates me. He might work as a
finial hidden along