Alright, I'm back in action!  I took a few weeks off to help with a friend's Coachella project and prep for the spring art walk here at The Brewery, then taxes and recon at a potential clients house.  Busy busy busy.  All good stuff though.

Well, it's been a while, so let me take a second to get you up to speed.  I finished the ribs.  Really glad I shrunk that larger side down a bit.  Not only do both sides match now, but the side I shrunk even has a little sexier shape to it.  I laid in one final line at the top of the ribs to denote the underline of her breasts.  Her torso is looking really good.

I took the two thicker wires at the sternum, brought them up to the neck where they veer off into the clavicles.  They'll curve around a bit on the shoulder and probably end there. 

I took the two thicker wires at the top of the spine and started curving them out towards the shoulders, then down and around, shaping the shoulder blades.  Since the shoulder blades press out from the body, there's a real nice three dimensional quality to that area.  When they're filled in, it's going to look great.  The thick wires continue on through the bottom of the underarms to the front of the body.  They're going to follow that tendon along the front of the underarm, up to the shoulder, where they'll outline a few muscles at the top of the arm and end there.

So that's where I left off going into art walk weekend, with her back finished (minus the insides of the shoulder blades), and the front of her body done up to the underline of the bust.  I had her displayed nicely for art walk, and people seemed to get a kick out of seeing an unfinished piece.  I got a lot of great feedback and it gave me a little boost of inspiration, seeing how excited people got about it.

Now I'm back in the saddle.  This past week, I've been working on the breasts.  Pretty tricky curves.  I found myself at an all night grocery store at two in the morning a few nights ago, feeling up various citrus fruit.  Awkward.  I found a perfect grapefruit though, and brought it home to help shape the breasts.  I started with the nipples, then swirled my way back and forth down through the underside.  I finally connected both of those to the body today, and they look great.  Smallish, with a nice curve to the underside.  And I like the nipples.  I had been trying to decide between a spiral, or a more minimalist loop, and I ended up going with the spiral.  

So this week, I work on filling out the breasts.    I'll probably only get a few days of work in, since I'm heading out to Coachella Thursday night and need to start pulling out my camping gear and getting prepped, but I should be able to get a little more work done.  Once Coachella is over, I'm hoping to be back to a normal work schedule. 

Oh, and I've hit the six month mark.  I just looked back at my first blog entry, and I had predicted this piece would take about 4 to 6 months, realistically thinking it would take six.  Now, I'm guessing I may still have six more to go.  Didn't see that coming.

This song has been in my head all week.  It comes with a preemptive apology...