Still at it.  I finished off the last two of the thicker wires last week.  They run up along the front of the arm pits, outline the shoulder muscles and end back at the shoulder blades.  They're only the outlines of the shoulder muscles, but they already hint at the direction of her arms.  She's in a really interesting place right now, so I decided to move her over to an empty wall so I could get a few clean photos of her at this stage.  At this point, all that's left are the arms and the head.  It's really scary and exciting.

I've been working on the shoulders this week.  One is done, the other is almost done.  Once I've finished both of them, I'm going to fill out the shoulder blades, start on the arm pits and work my way out to the elbows.  Since one arms bends back so the hand is near her face and the other stretches up over her head, I'm going to pause at the elbows and move on to the head so the arms don't get in the way while I'm working on her head.  I had considered just facing the music and starting on her head once the shoulders were done, but I realized the open space between her shoulders will be my only way to get in and grind down the welds inside her arm pits.  Still not 100% sure how I'll get in to grind down the welds on her neck, but it may involve leaving the back of her head open and building the hair up off her hairline rather than giving her a scalp and attaching the hair to that.  It will probably look cleaner that way as well.  We'll see.

So I've been obsessed with another song lately.  I first heard it as the soundtrack to a claymation video, which, in itself is one of the more beautiful things I've seen on the web, but I've fallen madly in love with the song as well.  The song is "It's Raining Today," by Scott Walker.  Here's the claymation video with the song.  Watch it full screen.  You won't regret it.  Kick back and enjoy.